THE Bacolod City Water District (Baciwa) is scheduled to meet with the officials of Bacolod Bulk Water Inc. (BBWI) to finalize the payment of the water delivery.
Baciwa assistant general manager for operations Jenelyn Gemora announced the scheduled meeting on Friday after the BBWI secured an occupancy permit from the Office of the Building Official.
Gemora said they will meet with the BBWI within a week to finalize all the documents so they can start the official delivery of water supply.
“We need to discuss the payment since they already conducted a test run of the Injection Point 1,” she said.
Gemora said the BBWI’s test run ended on December 3, but its operation now is still part of the test run and commissioning.
“It is all a preliminary activities. We will come up and agree with the possible terms on the treatment of the payment of BBWI’s test run,” she said.
Gemora said that both parties should agree on the terms of payment so they can make a final decision on the water supply acceptance.
Baciwa earlier allowed the BBWI to interconnect its water pipeline to the water district’s pipeline in Barangay Granada after the Office of the Government Corporate Counsel (OGCC) approved the amendments to the contract.
BBWI, a consortium of Mactan Rock Industries Inc., Tubig Pilpinas, and TGV Builders, had earlier proposed to directly inject water from their treatment plant in Bangga Bagol, Barangay Granada to the water pipes of Baciwa without passing through Baciwa’s reservoir in Purok Loygoy.
Gemora said the interconnection of the pipeline is only temporary and the BBWI was given six months to put in place their pipelines from the water treatment plants towards the reservoir.