by Bohol Chronicle
Civil works on the New Bohol Airport in Panglao is slated to commence this year with the wastewater treatment facility as the first package being the primary requirement of the project.
Governor Edgar Chatto confirmed during his weekly program, Kita ug ang Gobernador, last Friday that officials of the Department of Transportation of Communications have been holding successive meetings on the update of the preparations, together with the local task force in Bohol.
Part of the preparation is the recent soil drilling conducted by the Manila-based Universal Testing Laboratory and Inspection to assess the capacity of the foundation of the project site.
Mandy Victorio of the Universal Testing Laboratory and Inspection said they will submit samples of the rocks taken from the project site to laboratory tests for this purpose.
The samples were taken from the depth of up to five meters in the site.
The DOTC is giving the Victorio's team 15 days to finish the soil drilling.
This falls within the timeframe on the target to commence the construction of the New Bohol Airport within this year.
Boholanos have the assurance of President Benigno Aquino III as declared in his several Presidential visits here.
Another package to be accomplished in the first phase of the project is the wastewater treatment facility.
Provincial Administrator Alfonso Damalerio II also reported that the water treatment facility component of the New Bohol Airport was included in the discussion with Japanese officials during his recent visit to Japan.
Damalerio explained that the Japanese experts who designed the New Bohol Airport require the sewer treatment facility.
That's why, the wastewater treatment facility is integrated as the first package to be accomplished, in addition to stable water supply.
The provincial administrator, however, made it clear that he learned during the discussion in Japan that the site earlier proposed to host the wastewater treatment facility in Tagbilaran was only 1/8 of the ideal area of lot needed for it.
Chatto added that the implementation of a wastewater treatment facility is demand-driven and it is Panglao and Tagbilaran that are identified as the ones that need it most.
The governor also said that the Philippine delegation to Japan was composed of representatives from DPWH and other national agencies, saying that the national government is the one making representations for Bohol in dealing with Official Development Assistance (ODA).
Chatto also observed that the Japanese officials noticed during their visits to Bohol, the strong potentials of the province which is the reason that it is given a slot in the Philippine delegation to the meeting on opening partnership with Japan.
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