Posted January 13, 2015
Written
by Gloria Villas
Alarmed
by the rising levels of coliform contamination of water samples taken from the
Sooc River very recently.
The
Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Aklan has urgently asked the Department of
Environment and Natural Resources to immediately classify according to usage
the Sooc River waters in the vicinity of Kalibo’s dumping site in Barangay
Bachao Sur and Buswang Old.
The
urgent request was embodied in Resolution No. 277, Series of 2014 enacted by
the Sangguniang Panlalawigan during its 43rd Regular Session on December 10,
2014.
The
reason why the SP has requested for the immediate classification of Sooc waters
was that both the DENR and the Aklan Environment and Natural Resources Office
cannot possibly establish the parameters as to what level of coliform
contamination can be tolerable to prevent hazards to human life and marine
resources as well as the environment.
It
was also learned that DENR had earlier conducted tests on these water samples
in the same vicinity of the Sooc River and tallied millions MPN/100ml of
coliform contamination from the Sooc River water samples.
Meanwhile,
in a conference Kalibo Save The Mangroves Association (KASAMA) Chairman Atty.
Allen Quimpo explained that the law provides in Republic Act 9003 or the
Ecological Solid Waste Management Act, the prohibition to operate on a dumpsite
when affecting the health of citizens.
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