Sinocalan WQMA sets rules for rehab
THE Sinocalan River system’s Water Quality Management Area (WQMA) governing board has started drafting rules and action plans that would govern the speedy rehabilitation of the waterways.
In a meeting last June 6,the multi-sectoral board formed two ad hoc committees that will establish the regulations and plan for the project.
Dagupan City Agriculturist Emma Molina, one of the city’s representatives in the board, said the rules will be described in the action plan aimed at addressing the concerns in revitalizing the riverine area.
Among the issues the board aims to resolve are: open defecation, disposal of garbage in rivers, river bank encroachment, relocation of settlers along the riverbanks, effluence of septic tanks, seepage of untreated wastewater from households, commercial establishments and piggeries and siltation.
Sitting for the city in the action plan panel was City Health Officer Leonard Carbonell while Executive Secretary to the Mayor Albertini De Guzman served as the city’s representative in the governing rules committee.
Also in the conference were DENR -Environmental Management Board Region I Director Joel Salvador and representatives from local and national government units and non-government agencies and the academe.
The teams will present the plan on June 14 in preparation for the executive committee meeting on June 15.
The local WQMA was instituted by DENR to focus interventions on specific water quality issues of the Sinocalan River system that snakes through the municipalities of Binalonan, Sta. Barbara, Calasiao, Mangaldan, Malasiqui and Binmaley and the cities of Urdaneta, San Carlos and Dagupan. (CIO)
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