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Monday, January 11, 2010

Tacloban water system project to be started this week

TACLOBAN CITY- The implementation of the planned water system project for the City of Tacloban will start beginning this week.


Executive Assistant Eduardo Manadong in an interview Wednesday said that major parts of the project have already been bidded out and are set for implementation in the next few days.


“Private contractors that have won bids to implement the project’s major components are just waiting for the Notice to Proceed,” he said.


According to the city official, these major components are the improvement of water system in Basper with a budget of P 5.2 million; construction of water system in Sta. Elena worth P 3.5 million; putting up of water system in Upper Nula-tula; drilling of deep wells in three different sites in Cabalawan at a projected cost of P 6 million; construction of P 12 million water impounding dam in Palanog; and improvement of water system in Brgy. 60-A with a budget of P358,000.


“Those are the project’s major components. There remain a few minor project components that will be implemented later on,” Manadong disclosed.


Manadong said that once the project will be completed Taclobanons can expect a workable water system.


“The target is to finish the entire project by the end of March,” he stressed.


Manadong explained that the city government decided to undertake the project because of the continuing “failure” of the provincial government-run Leyte Metropolitan Water District (LMWD) to adequately supply water to the city, especially the northern barangays.


According to him, residents of the 14 villages in the north will be the number one beneficiaries of the proposed project once it is finished.


The 14 barangays in the north are Palanog, Paglaum, Camansihay, Bagacay, Picas, San Roque, Sta. Elena, Cabalawan, Sto. Niño, San Isidro, New Kawayan, Old Kawayan, Salvacion, and Tagpuro.


“The project is primarily intended for people in the northern barangays, but it doesn’t mean that other areas in the city will not benefit from it. People in the Downtown area and other villages outside the north will also get their own supply of water through water tankers,” Manadong said.


“Though not a long-term solution, we, in the city government, are optimistic that the water supply problem will be somehow eased once the water system project will be completed,” he added.


A priority of City Mayor Alfred Romualdez, the water system project was given a budget allocation of P50 million, it was learned. (CIO- JOSE RODRIGUEZ T. SEÑASE)





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