Thursday, October 02, 2008 City acts on stench complaint
A LESSOR at the South Road Properties (SRP) has reportedly complained about the stench coming from the Inayawan Sanitary Landfill, prompting Cebu City Hall to cover the garbage with filling materials.
This has resulted to a shortage of aggregates that is why the City Government is appealing to the public to donate or throw their excess sand, gravel and other filling materials at the SRP.
SRP Management Office (SRP-MO) head Nagiel Bañacia said the need for filling materials is urgent because of the complaints about the stench at the landfill, which is right beside the SRP.
Response
The materials will be used to cover the garbage dumped at the landfill, which has been emitting foul odor that could turn off possible SRP investors, he said.
Bañacia said that the building of Bigfoot Global Solutions has been completed and its personnel are ready to move in.
“Admittedly, the landfill will have an adverse effect on the marketing of the SRP kay manimaho man gyud didto (we could smell the stench there). In fact, ang Bigfoot human na ang ilang building (is finished) and they are ready to operate but bahoan gyud sila, labi na karon nga naay habagat, madala gyud sa hangin ang baho (They really complained of the smell),” he told Sun.Star Cebu.
Bigfoot president Mi-chael Gleissner, an adopted son of Cebu City, is leasing a two-hectare lot at the SRP at P5 million a year for 25 years.
The company also expressed interest to buy the 16-hectare Pond F at P12,000 per square meter, or a total of P1.94 billion, for an international mega-yacht club and a state-of-the-art movie soundstage.
Budget
The Cebu City Council has already approved the P6-million funding for the purchase of filling materials but bidding procedures are delaying the purchase, Bañacia explained.
They expect the shortage to go on in the next two months.
“The remedy at this time is that we are offering a space in the SRP where the public can dump their filling materials. This is often a problem for those constructing or renovating houses because they don’t know where to throw their excess construction materials,” the SRP-MO chief said. (LCR)
