Urdaneta landfill operational by June
URDANETA CITY—The construction of a 16-hectare modern sanitary landfill in Barangay Catablan here finally gets underway in two weeks after a false start when the contractor picked a wrong site.
Mayor Amadeo Perez Jr. said the project is expected to be finished in four to five months.
The P220 million sanitary landfill, the first of its kind in Pangasinan, will be bankrolled through a loan obtained by the city government from the Land Bank of the Philippines.
Of the total cost, at least P190 million will be used to build the facility, P20 million to be used for land acquisition and P10 million to be spent to improve the road leading to the site.
Perez said not a single centavo of the P220 million will be coursed to the city. Instead, it will be paid directly to the contractor based on the progress of their work.
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The mayor said the city government is buying 10 hectares more in addition to the existing open dumpsite in the same barangay, comprising six hectares.
The general plan is to develop 10 hectares initially as the landfill site projected to last five to eight years.
While the initial site is being used, the existing six-hectare open dumpsite will be closed and will be planted with vegetables and fruit trees. Once the first landfill is filled, the open dumpsite area will be tapped as another landfill site.
When completed, the landfill facility will accommodate all the garbage from the city’s eight barangays, the city center and public market, estimated to total from 80 to 85 tons per day.
Perez said the city will also open the facility to adjacent municipalities and cities with prescribed rates per ton for their garbage to generate income that will help pay the loan.
Urdaneta City will be the first local government unit in Pangasinan to have complied with the provision of Republic Act 9003 or the Solid Waste Management Act.
The facility is patterned after the sanitary landfill being built in San Jose del Monte, Bulacan for Metro Manila. –LM
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