Boy takes a break by reading a magazine he found at the dump.
By JUAN
ESCANDOR JR
NAGA CITY: Where
the wind blows, this city stinks within a radius of one kilometer from an open
dumpsite which should have been closed as early as 2006.
With garbage
bursting to the seams in the open dumpsite in Barangay Balatas here, stink will
inevitably overwhelm this city in two years’ time should the local government
here fails to resolve the problem, according to Joel Martin, head of Naga City
Solid Waste Management Office.
The
procrastination to solve the garbage problem in this city took another turn
after the local chief executive here declared to rescind the contract with a
Filipino-Korean firm the construction of a waste-to-energy project.
Naga Mayor John
Bongat told the Bicol Mail he had to rescind the contract with CG Global Green
Energy to build and operate a waste-to-energy plant in a 5ha expropriated
property of the local government unit (LGU) in Barangay San Isidro.
“We have waited too long for more than one
year (since the groundbreaking ceremony on Nov 22, 2012), so that we could find
a way…to entertain other players than be tied down under their contract,”
Bongat explained.
Mercy Cañeca,
representative of the CG Global Green Energy who paid visit to the mayor on
Feb. 13, declined to give reaction regarding the decision of the LGU to rescind
the contract.
The
waste-to-energy project targets to use 100 tons of garbage everyday to produce
electricity but the construction of the facility has still to be started due to
technical problems, according to Martin.
He disclosed
that the 3.7-hectare open dumpsite in Barangay Balatas, which could have been
decommissioned in 2006, has accumulated 32,000 cubic meters of garbage for the
past 40 years.
Martin said 1.7ha
of the open dumpsite had been closed and the remaining area (2 hectares) is
still in use to accommodate the daily garbage of 78-150 tons.
He said the
garbage will continue to pile up since the material recovery facility of the
dumpsite can only process 20 percent of the total garbage every day.
To control the
periodic emission of stink that spreads within a kilometer radius from the
dumpsite, Martin said they have to spray every day 1,500 liters of inoculants
that they also produce within the site. – BicolMail
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