City hall now wants jail out of Dagupan
TO RID LINGAYEN GULF OF POLLUTION
It will have to go.
Thus said Dagupan City Administrator Alvin Fernandez about the fate of the District Jail located in Bonuan Gueset.
Evidently peeved by the endless reports about the continuing pollution of the beachfront emanating from the district jail, he said the city government is now prepared to seek its transfer to any location outside the city.
Fernandez said the city government is spending regularly for the dislodging of the jail’s septic tank only to find the pollution in the area has not diminished.
Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Officer Leduina Co earlier confirmed that that waste water from the city jail continues to flow into the sea, prompting the provincial government to react.
Governor Amado Espino Jr. volunteered to moderate in the dialogue between the Dagupan City government and the BJMP in order to resolve the problem soonest.
FERNANDEZ
Fernandez added that the city will not even consider shouldering the any expense for the jail’s relocation.
Stressing that dislodging is only a palliative solution to the problem, Fernandez conceded the city cannot do more to stop the waste water flowing out from the district jail to the Lingayen Gulf.
The district jail houses 400 inmates whereas it was built for 100 inmates only.
Fernandez said the facility simply cannot handle the wastes of this big number of inmates.
“The only remaining solution (to this problem) is the construction of a new jail facility at the expense of the BJMP to another location outside the city,” Fernandez said.
He said the earlier the jail is transferred the sooner the city can develop the area into a commercial docking area.
He pointed out that the city government built the jail for the city’s offenders but BJMP converted it into a district jail without informing the city when it took over.
“The intention of Dagupan when it built the facility was for it to become a city jail but not a district jail or a regional jail,” he said.-LM
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