Mayor: City will beat deadline for dump rehab

Saturday, September 1, 2012

MAYOR Mauricio Domogan on Wednesday expressed confidence that the city can beat the 20-month deadline set the by the court to rehabilitate and convert the Irisan dump facility into an eco-park.

This as the city continues to face setbacks on the implementation of the project to rehabilitate the collapsed retaining wall to stabilize the area.

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The mayor assured that the city will do its best to comply with the terms of the consent decree that settled the Writ of Kalikasan to stop the use of waste facility.

As I see it, we can beat the deadline, he assured.

The mayor said they are closely monitoring the retaining wall project which remained unimplemented due to issues on the program of works.

He said procedures require every plan and specifications to be checked and approved by the national office of the Dept. of Public Works and Highways and this has been causing the delay.

A recent setback, he disclosed, was that when the approved documents arrived from the DPWH, the technical working committee formed by the mayor to formulate the structural plans and which includes experts from the universities in the city discovered that a project component deemed vital to the stability of the supposed all-weather structure was removed.

This he said caused Saint Louis University dean Bonifacio Dela Pena, a member of the committee, to refuse to sign the program of work saying that without the said component, he cannot assure the safety of the structure.

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