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Fast
track waste facilities - Lim
By KIT BAGAIPO
 LIM | | The
much-needed construction of two waste facilities in the city may soon be realized
as City Mayor Dan Lim ordered to fast track its bidding.
Speaking
during his weekly "Mayor's Report" yesterday, Lim said city consultant
and former Vice Mayor Nuevas Montes is personally heading a team to process requirements
for the construction of the waste water treatment plant and the waste recycling
facility.
Citing government bureaucracy as reason for delays in the realization
of the project, the mayor said he wants the two priority projects pass through
review with the National |
Economic
Development Authority (NEDA) and the Regional Development Council (RDC) for the
bidding process to begin.
For the past two weeks, requirements for bidding
of the sewer treatment plant has been processed by the city government.
Lim
said Montes is closely coordinating with City Administrator Walter Toston, City
Planning and Development Coordinator Eduardo Macalandag, City Engineer Pianicita
Castolo, Budget Officer Rosemarie Palma and City Treasurer Visitacion Acero to
implement the project the soonest possible time.
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"[We] are
working as a team to start the project", according to Lim saying that the
Sangguniang Panlungsod is granting him authority to negotiate or enter into a
loan agreement with financial institutions for the water treatment facility project.
According
to the mayor, the waste water treatment plant will go hand in hand with the waste
recycling facility to be built in barangay Taloto, this city.
Estimates
by city environmental consultant Engr. Cecil Corloncito pegged the water treatment
project at about P100-million. | He
said an ordinance needs to be crafted for the recycling facility, under the Integrated
Solid Waste Management Program of the city.
Public
consultations are currently ongoing at the project site, according to Lim.
The
recycling plant will be built and operated by a German firm for a specified number
of years.
"In
two or three weeks, the two important projects will take off," he added.
The
mayor said the solid waste disposal facility will be opened for neighboring facilities
who may opt to dispose their solid wastes instead of the planned Cluster Sanitary
Landfill in Albur. | 
