News Briefs
Extending landfill lifespan
ENVIRONMENT officials will meet with Cebu City Hall to discuss extending the Inayawan landfill’s acceptance of septic wastes from private haulers until Aug. 11.
Mar Tabuco, chief pollution control officer of the Environmental Management Bureau in Central Visayas (EMB-7), said the landfill management should receive less septic waste to avoid the overflow of the wastewater treatment facility which badly needs repair.
Tabuco said if the facility continues to receive septic waste, safety measures should be set up like raising the wall of the pond to avoid overflow and increasing the chlorine volume to treat the wastewater.
The landfill was ordered closed by Mayor Michael Rama last April.
Private septic waste haulers still have to look for a new location to dispose of the wastes.
Article continues after this advertisementRama ordered the closure after learning that leachates or wastewater from the soaked garbage of the landfill continue to flow to the Mactan Channel. Reporter Candeze R. Mongaya
Article continues after this advertisementGasoline payments review
A REVIEW will be made on the payments made for gasoline and diesoline purchases done in 2008 following reports of double payments.
About 16,000 liters of diesel was purchased on Aug. 25, 2008, three days after a separate purchase of 12,000 liters of diesoline.
Invoices from the City Accountant’s Office showed that the two purchases were each issued with two different disbursement vouchers, which allowed the release of payments amounting to P540,000 and P880,000 respectively.
The diesoline purchase was also issued two disbursement vouchers, which allowed payment of P880, 000 and P577, 800.
The Government Services Office (GSO) said additional documents were attached to explain the purchases. Chief of Reporters Doris C. Bongcac
Auction of impounded vehicles set
ABOUT 228 motorcycles and 39 service vehicles will be auctioned off by the City Traffic Operations Management (Citom) at the city impounding area in Block 27 of the North Reclamation Area (NRA).
“We are going to dispose vehicles impounded for traffic violations and with unsettled fines and other obligations,” Citom chief Rafael Yap said.
The auction was also timed for the transfer of Citom’s impounding area to a portion of the South Road Properties (SRP).
Yap said the auction would be held after the Governor Services Office (GSO) completes its inventory of vehicles to be auctioned.
He said the first auction of vehicles impounded from 2004 to 2009 earned P2 million in proceeds.
GSO chief Rolando Ardosa said this year’s auction is expected to earn P1.7 million.
Yap said impounded vehicles that remain unreleased have unpaid fines on traffic violations that amount to P250,000 each.
“Our existing impounding area is too small considering the amount of vehicle that we supervise every day. It is also prone to thieves,” Yap said. Chief of Reporters Doris C. Bongcac
