Urdaneta sanitary landfill now open to adjacent towns
URDANETA CITY–The P200-million engineered sanitary landfill of the city government here is now open to receive garbage from adjacent towns – for a fee.
The green light came after the Sangguniang Panlungsod led by Vice Mayor Onofre Gorozpe approved the ordinance authorizing the city government to charge users P900 per ton.
Among the first towns to avail of the landfill are Sta. Barbara, Mapandan and Pozorrubio.
Urdaneta’s rate is P50 more than the P850 per ton fee imposed by the older sanitary landfill in nearby Capas, Tarlac.
Users of the landfill are required to sign a memorandum of agreement with Urdaneta City that defines the terms of the service including a provision that only segregated wastes will be accepted at the landfill.
In a related development, Gorozpe announced that Mayor Amadeo Perez VI recently signed an agreement with a foreign firm that will produce methane gas out of the garbage collected at the landfilll which in turn will be used as an energy source by households.
Urdaneta is the first local government unit in Pangasinan to build an engineered sanitary landfill in compliance with the Solid Waste Management and Ecological Act, or Republic Act 2003.
Dagupan planned to build one in the supposed site in Barangay Awai, San Jacinto, a 30-hectare property, bought in 2001 by the Lim administration. The project was aborted after the city government paid and lost P16 million to the private owner when it turned out that the purchased land was covered by the government’s Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program.
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