By Aileen P. Refuerzo
BAGUIO CITY – City government officials said they remained hopeful that barricaders opposing the reopening of the dumpsite for dumping will relent and allow the city to freely undertake its plans and projects at the disposal facility.
City administrator Peter Fianza, head of the city environment management office, said they are bent on convincing the residents that the city’s plans are all intended for the welfare of the community.
Residents for the fourth time put up barricades Tuesday to stop the city’s plan of dumping wastes anew in the area.
The residents who belong to the Barangay Irisan, Asin Tadiangan Association wrote Mayor Reinaldo Bautista Jr. last August 27 warning of barricading the area again because the area was being used again for dumping in violation of the agreement reached in a previous meeting with city officials led by then acting mayor Rocky Thomas Balisong and Councilor Joel Alangsab along with the memorandum issued by acting mayor Daniel Farinas last May 14 to use the dumpsite exclusively as residual waste transfer station.
Fianza said that the barricaders who as of press time remained in the area were just blocking the entry of new wastes in the dumpsite but were however allowing waste transfer activities so as not disrupt the hauling out of wastes outside the city.
Fianza earlier said city officials considered the reuse of the dumpsite for another two months to fill up recessed portions caused by the on-going construction of a retaining wall to stabilize the area.
Officials see no harm as only residual wastes will be dumped and only for the purpose of filling up the hollows.
At present, the city is still dumping wastes at the landfill facility in Capas, Tarlac with the use of the eight old trucks for the hauling.
Private hauling services had been stopped due to lack of funds but the city is coping, according to Fianza who assured that the city still has funds for the tipping fee in the disposing wastes at the Capas facility.
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