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    A new septage treatment facility for the Marilao-Meycauayan-Obando River System in the Philippines has begun operation. This river system was previously identified as one of the dirtiest in the world. The facility will help reduce domestic pollution from septage that makes up around 65-70% of organic pollution in the river. It is a pilot project that is hoped to eventually serve multiple municipalities in the area and improve water quality and public health.

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    A new septage treatment facility for the Marilao-Meycauayan-Obando River System in the Philippines has begun operation. This river system was previously identified as one of the dirtiest in the world. The facility will help reduce domestic pollution from septage that makes up around 65-70% of organic pollution in the river. It is a pilot project that is hoped to eventually serve multiple municipalities in the area and improve water quality and public health.

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    A new septage treatment facility for the Marilao-Meycauayan-Obando River System in the Philippines has begun operation. This river system was previously identified as one of the dirtiest in the world. The facility will help reduce domestic pollution from septage that makes up around 65-70% of organic pollution in the river. It is a pilot project that is hoped to eventually serve multiple municipalities in the area and improve water quality and public health.

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    Meycauayan Bulacan

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    4/23/13 BusinessMirror - Septage-treatment facility for PHLs dirtiest river system now operational

    SeptagetreatmentfacilityforPHLsdirtiestriver
    systemnowoperational
    Details Category:TopNews PublishedonSaturday,23March201318:23
    WrittenbyRamonEfrenR.Lazaro/Correspondent

    MEYCAUAYAN CITYThe septage-treatment facility that was


    built to rehabilitate water quality of the Marilao-Meycauayan-
    Obando River System (MMORS) which was tagged a few years
    back by the Blacksmith Institute, an international pollution
    watchdog, as one of the 30 dirtiest river system in the world.

    The facilitys inauguration in Barangay Zamora in this city


    coincided with the celebration on Friday of the World Water Day
    and International Year of Water Cooperation.

    Lormelyn Claudio, Central Luzons chief of the Environmental Management Bureau of the Department of Environment
    and Natural Resources (EMB-DENR), told the BusinessMirror that studies conducted by the World Bank showed that 48
    percent of river systems pollution comes from domestic sources.

    A separate study made by the water quality management area (Waqma) governing board showed a 65-percent to 70-
    percent biochemical oxygen demand, a parameter for organic pollution, that comes from domestic or household sources.

    Claudio exhorted resident to properly dispose of their sepatage and refrain from dumping the material to lessen or totally
    eliminate environmental pollution.

    The septage-treatment facility is a pilot project for the MMORS and the second in Bulacan. The first one is located Baliuag
    town but the MMORS facility is much bigger in terms of size and scope, according to Claudio, adding that the project is in
    accordance with the Clean Water Act and the continuing mandamus of the Supreme Court.

    Claudio said the area where the facility was constructed was provided for by the Ecoshield Development Corp. and
    funded under the DENRs Manila Bay Rehabilitation Program, while utilization and operation of the facility will be
    handled by the local government of Meycauayan and its local water district under the Public-Private Partnership Program
    of the government.

    We are anticipating that the facility will not only serve the city of Meycauayan but also adjacent municipalities, Claudio
    said, adding that the by-product of the treatment process called night soil can be used as fertilizer.

    Waqma governing board will come out with a resolution requiring all septage service providers to make use of the facility
    so that it can be assured that the septage that they have siphoned off will be treated in an efficient and safe method that
    would not cause any further harm to the environment.

    On the other hand, Mariano Sangalang, general manager of the Meycauayan Water District said under Presidential
    Decree 198, otherwise known as the Provincial Water Utilities Act of 1973, their water district is mandated to create,
    operate, maintain, and expand the reliable and economically viable and sound water supply and wastewater disposal
    system for the population centers of the Philippines.

    With the establishment of the septage-treatment facility, Sangalang said we have our open hands to accept your
    decision as to how we can be of help in the implementation of our objective. He added that along the initial run of the
    system we might have setbacks and false startlet us join in the work in making this historic project a good example.

    www.businessmirror.com.ph/index.php/news/top-news/11053-septage-treatment-facility-for-phl-s-dirtiest-river-system-now-operational?tmpl=component&print= 1/2
    4/23/13 BusinessMirror - Septage-treatment facility for PHLs dirtiest river system now operational

    Lawyer Tirso Peralta of Ecoshield Development Corp., said in behalf of ALC Group of Companies founder and Chairman
    Emeritus Ambassador Antonio Cabangon Chua and his son Edgard that their group is only too willing to support the
    environmental protection program of the DENR.

    With the inauguration of the septage-treatment facility, Peralta said their company takes pride in being part of the
    endeavor that is in compliance with the objectives of the DENR, the leadership of Bulacan Gov. Wilhelmino Sy-Alvarado
    and the rest of the local government officials t of Meycauayan.

    Peralta said we are all living witnesses to the destruction being committed against the environment, particularly those
    who reside along the river system. He added that polluted water in the river system brings with it different kinds of
    diseases and destroys aquatic lives.

    In Photo: (From right) Mariano Sangalang, general manager of Meycauayan Water District; Lormelyn Claudion, EMB
    Central Luzon chief; Third District Rep. Linabelle Villarica; and lawyer Tirso Peralta of Ecoshield Development Corp.
    conduct a joint inspection on the septage-treatment facility of the Marilao-Meycauayan-Obando River System
    in Meycauayan, Bulacan. (Ramon Efren R. Lazaro)

    www.businessmirror.com.ph/index.php/news/top-news/11053-septage-treatment-facility-for-phl-s-dirtiest-river-system-now-operational?tmpl=component&print= 2/2

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