Calmay River reclamation resumes despite desist order
WITH most everyone busy and distracted by the ongoing campaign period, the stopped landfill activity of the 888 Properties Corporation in Calmay River by the Jose R. de Venecia Expressway Extension, has resumed.
Truckloads of sand and gravel have been delivered to the area and a bulldozer was already seen stationed in the site last week.
Dagupan City Planning and Development Coordinator Romeo Rosario said a cease and desists order (CDO) was issued against the company last year by the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). Rosario said the corporation could be cited for contempt for violating the CDO issued by a government agency.
The CDO has not been lifted, according to Technical Director Joel Salvador, the EMB official who issued the CDO.
Salvador said he was surprised to see reclamation activities going in the area when he passed by on April 5 enroute to Lingayen to attend the Pangasinan Foundation Day.
Rosario said he will raise the matter to the City Legal Office and she expects the latter to take immediate action against those behind the resumption of the reclamation.
Rosario said the filling up a portion of the river is prohibited by law unless the corporation behind it has a document to show it has permission from concerned government agencies, specifically the Philippine Reclamation Authority.
“Let’s see what the DENR will do about this violation of its issued cease and desist order,” he said.—LM
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