Cebu City Needs P5M to Improve Septage Plant

(PNA) — The Cebu City Septage Management Board (CCSMB) wants a budget of PHP5 million to improve the Septage Treatment Plant (STP) at the city’s North Reclamation Area (NRA).

The Department of Veterinary Medicine and Fisheries (DVMF) wants the STP to treat abattoir wastes and waste water, aside from septic wastes.

Lawyer Janesis Ponce, CCSMB head, said the DVMF wants the existing STP to be improved since they no longer have to put up their own facility at the existing abattoir, which is situated in an adjacent lot at the STP.

The DVMF, he said, has a plan to transfer its location to some other place within the next three to five years.

Ponce said the DVMF wrote Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama in February this year, proposing for the improvement of the current STP so it can treat abattoir wastes and waste water.

The current STP at the NRA, which started its full operation in June last year, processes an estimated 100 cubic meters of septic wastes per hour.

The STP costs PHP15 million and was funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and manufactured by Amcon Inc., a manufacturing firm based in Yokohama City.

Its operations are being overseen by the CCSMB. (PNA) LAP/EB/SSC