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ILOILO City – Garbage booms — barriers that catch floating debris — have been put up in bodies of water to identify the barangays where garbage found in Iloilo River are coming from.
The City Agriculture Office installed the garbage booms last week in barangays Bakhaw and Bolilao in Mandurriao district, particularly at the Dungon creek.
Tracking the villages dumping their garbage into the Dungon creek, which carry the waste to the Iloilo River, was “an order from Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog,” said City Agriculturist Romulo Pangantihon.
Garbage booms were placed near the Jalandoni Bridge and the lower portion of Dungon Creek.
“We will install [more] garbage booms in other locations,” Pangantihon said.
Pangantihon said his office also monitors the volume of garbage thrown into the Iloilo River.
The city government rehabilitated the Iloilo River over the years through private-partnership initiatives. Now the Iloilo River is a tourism landmark with the Iloilo Esplanade, a stretch of rest-and-recreation area.
Environment secretary Roy Cimatu recently cited city hall and Mabilog for the successful rehabilitation of the river.
Cimatu noted how the river is remarkably “cleaner” than other rivers in highly urbanized cities in the country and pushed for the replication of the local government’s best practices. (PNA)
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