By Kit Bagaipo - Bohol Chronicle
For a major and urgent project such as the multi-million peso waste water treatment facility - bureaucracy, funding problems and project modifications are main issues for its delay.
The three reasons cited proves true to the much-needed water treatment plant of the city as flooding in city streets and threat to the environment if the drainage outfall at Graham Avenue is opened continue to hound the city officialdom.
City environmental consultant Engr. Cecil Corloncito told the Chronicle that the waste water treatment facility may be operational in late 2009 if the project is bidded out within this year and the contractor starts civil works by January.
Among the reasons mentioned by the ISO certified engineer is the decision of the project's planners to build the treatment facility in barangay Taloto instead of setting it up at the outfall in Graham Avenue.
This means, according to Corloncito, digging up another outfall and renovating the drainage system in CPG Avenue so that water wastes will flow all the way into the treatment plant in Taloto.
That alone could take some time plus the actual construction of the facility.
City Mayor Dan Lim himself declared that the project, which costs over P100 million, has to undergo review by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) with the approval of the Regional Development Council (RDC).
As of this time, the mayor bared, a team led by former Vice Mayor Nuevas Montes, has been working on the requirements needed by NEDA.
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