Baguio officials relocate disputed Irisan trash site

By Aileen P. Refuerzo

BAGUIO CITY – The city government relocated its ballyhooed waste transfer station from its temporary site at the Irisan Limekiln to another site last week even as negotiations for a more permanent location are on.

            

General Services Officer Romeo Concio said they made sure that the wastes were removed leaving no remnants and the site was flattened and sufficiently covered with soil. 

            

He said the city now utilizes a private lot also in Irisan as a “very temporary” garbage transfer and sorting station as the city continues to negotiate for another site which it can occupy for a longer time.

            

Concio said simultaneous arrangements are being made for two possible locations in La Trinidad and Marcos Highway and the city will go for whichever deal materializes first and which can offer longer tenure.

            

He said the city is eyeing a site which it can occupy for one to two years in anticipation of the implementation of the waste-to-energy technology currently undergoing review by the National Solid Waste Management Council (NSWMC)

He said arrangements are also being made for the hauler to shoulder the cost of renting and maintaining the site.

The present temporary site is relatively far from the Philippine Science High School Cordillera (PSHS) area.

The city council urged Concio to remove the staging area from the PSHS site as soon as possible to avert health hazard and inconvenience being inflicted on the school population.

In other separate actions, the body also sought an investigation of the quarrying activities near the PSHS area and the immediate concreting of the road leading to the school.