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| Water that enters our sewer eventually goes to Sanitary camp's treatment plant prior to releasing it. |
BAGUIO City will rehabilitate its Sewerage Treatment Plant at South Sanitary Camp next year, a top city official said.
In the City Government’s proposed 2012 budget, 20 percent of the P96,358,000 development fund will be allocated for the rehabilitation of the treatment plant alone.
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Mayor Mauricio Domogan said the rehabilitation of the sewage plant, which has been operating even beyond its capacity and serving only 65 out of the 128 villages in the city, is long overdue.
The city’s sewerage has been taking in 12,447 cubic meters of water a day in terms of inflow or 144.7 percent beyond capacity, which could be attributed to the rapidly increasing development in the city’s central business district area, the mayor earlier said.
“This is also a major concern that we are addressing with serious sense of urgency. We understand that we just cannot continue increasing the volume that goes into our sewerage treatment plant without increasing our holding capacity,” he said.
The City Environment Parks Management Office reported that only 12 villages in Baguio City are served by the communal septic tank, while 53 are using individual septic tanks.
In a related development, Domogan recently sought for the investigation on several stall owners who are not paying sewerage fees but are tapping the sewer lines of the city.
The city’s sewerage system, designed for an inflow rate of 8,600 cubic meters of water per day, has already been operating on 24 hours seven days a week basis.
In his July state of the city address, the mayor said maintenance activities, specifically declogging and cleaning of pipelines, are ongoing on some 2,248 manholes that were inventoried. (SunStar / by JM Agreda)
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