Landowners fined for gargabe dump
KAPITAN FINED P50,000
A WARNING to private landowners who think garbage from the dumpsite is a good and cheap alternative as filling material.
Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) has fined two property owners in Barangay Bonuan Boquig in Dagupan of P50,000 each for allowing their respective lots to serve as dumping grounds for garbage extracted from the city dumpsite also located in the same barangay.
An order signed by EMB Director Joel Salvador dated May 24, 2012 found a clear violation of the Ecological and Solid Waste and Management Act or Republic Act 9003 in the dumping of extracted wastes in the lots of Pedro Gonzales, barangay chairman of adjacent Bonuan Binloc, and Beatriz Reyes .
However, no fine was meted against the Dagupan City government through the Waste Management Division that effected the transfer of the extracted garbage from the dumpsite to the two private lots.
The EMB determined that dumpsites were created when the extracted garbage was dumped in the private lots, an act that is prohibited under RA 9003.
Salvador further said no Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC) was secured when the extracted garbage was transferred and dumped in the two lots.
The order of Salvador was released to the media by Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Officer Leduina Co to whom a petition signed by some 700 residents of Bonuan Boquig protesting the dumping of extracted wastes in the properties of Gonzales and Reyes was sent.
The petition was coursed through Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez when she was acting mayor of Dagupan.
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