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"The
city chief executive should enforce an existing ordinance
prohibiting the discharge of household and commercial
wastes into the city's drainage system and penalize violators."
This was the call made by City Councilor Zenaido Rama
during a |
privilege
speech at the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) session last Monday.
A
former close ally to City Mayor Dan Lim, Rama urged the mayor
to create a task force who will inspect and disconnect identified
drainage taps coming from some 30 residences and business
establishments from VP Inting Street to CPG Avenue (North).
Rama
presented a proposed resolution calling for the enforcement
of City Ordinance C-205 which prohibits and penalizes illegal
drainage connections.
However,
fellow lawmakers identified with the majority bloc Oscar Glovasa
and Danilo Bantugan dismissed the proposed resolution saying
that the mayor has already informed them that a task force
was already being formed.
Before
the session, Vice Mayor Jose Antonio Veloso requested the
city councilors to prioritize the proposed 2008 budget and
that no measure or legislation be taken up until it was enacted.
Hence, Rama's measure was shelved.
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Glovasa,
who chairs the appropriation and engineering committees
and the author of City Ordinance C-205, said he will
be meeting with the mayor and City Administrator Walter
Toston regarding the matter.
In
his speech, Rama said that City Ordinance C-205 has
to be enforced "due to the urgent need to clean
the city's drainage system which overflows to the streets
and households in low-lying areas during heavy rains."
He
said there is no assurance yet as to when the Drainage
Outfall connection at San Jose Street will be completed.
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"Granting
the civil works at San Jose Street be completed, we still
have to construct a waste water treatment plant at the outfall,"
Rama stressed.
City
Ordinance C-205 requires a team of inspectors to be spearheaded
by the City Health Office and City Engineers Office for its
implementation.
The
ordinance, which has been adopted since June last year, follows
provisions under the National Building Code which prohibits
the discharge of sewage into the drainage system.
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