MWD To Develop Bulokbulok Spring As Additional Water Source
By Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.
Maasin City, Southern Leyte-The Maasin Water District, with the technical assistance of Rio de Verde from Cagayan de Oro City, is set to develop the bulokbulok spring in brgy.Maria Clara as additional source of water supply for the city dwellers. This was the disclosure of the newly-appointed MWD General Manager Nestor Geraldo in an interview with LSDE in his office in brgy.Abgao here.
The General Manager revealed they have already sent the necessary requirement documents to the main office of the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) for the approval of P22.5M loan to be used for the development of the aforesaid spring.
The move was prompted by the present pestering occurrence of water shortage of the whole city consumers. He intimated that the seven-month dry spell, the additional one hundred plus concessionaires last year and the discovery of illegal connections in some areas are the main causes of the scarcity of water.Besides,the city population has gradually increasing, it was observed.
The current occurrences of December rains have greatly contributed to the augmentation of water supply to many households whose faucets were installed in one-storey buildings. However, in 2 or three-storey buildings, water would come out from the faucets either during midnight or at dawn.
Geraldo explained that the January up July dry season with short duration of occasional rains did not compensate with the huge volume of water losses that the consumers have needed. Although there were few rains occurring during the months of August, September and October, he said, still it did not fill up enough the concessionaires’ water needs.
To solve the problem on illegal connections, he said, the Board of Directors have issued a resolution mandating the MWD field men to disconnect all illegal connections and to impose fines to violators.
“The illegal connections are considered as the first offense and the violators will be warned”, he said, “For the second infraction, the violator/s will be fined P1, 000.00. And for the third violation, an offender’s water connection will be permanently cut”.
At present, the Maasin Water District has three springs and three deepwells, which are located at Canlitid in San Jose, Capores in Batuan and in Nasaug.
The General Manager further informed there are 2 additional ongoing deep well projects in barangays Sorosoro and Batuan.
He said his fieldmen shall be soon connecting the Batuan deepwell to MWD’s mainline in the city thru series of PVC pipes to augment the supply of water to users. The cost of pipes and labors were estimated to reach the amount of P280, 000.00, he said.
MWD will also be buying 117 pipes, he said, to connect the Sorosoro deepwell to the mainline either in January or February of next year.
On the other hand, Congressman Roger Mercado divulged that Rio de Verde, Water System Installer Company has sent recently some of its technical men here to conduct a feasibility study of the bulokbulok spring as another source of water supply.
The part time teacher of Saint Joseph College has confirmed this and confided that Rio de Verde will be the one to make a design as guide for the project implementation by MWD for a modern water system .It also Include the proper installations of pipes from its main source down to brgy. Maria Clara and the neighboring barangays of Pasay, Ibarra and Pugaling.
The 100 plus huge PVC pipes to be used for the series of pipes connections in the four abovementioned barangays would come from the City Government. He said that when the works for the tapping of the bulokbulok spring would start any time next year, it could be finished within three to four months.
Moreover, he said that MWD has its treatment plants in Canlitid and Batuan and that its water sources were treated with chlorine to kill the bacteria. However, if the water becomes murky due to heavy rains, he said, we use alum, another chemical to treat it.
Nevertheless, it’s always logically good and prudent not to drink unclear water caused by continuous rains despite the alum treatment. Drink it only when the MWD water becomes normally clear.
Now and then many folks will be going to the naturally-cold bulokbulok spring, especially during the hot season to take a bath, to swim and to soak themselves for a refreshing feeling. It s overflowing voluminous of spillage would go down into the nearby hectares of rice fields and even going farther to irrigate adjacent farms. But when the concrete-confined bulokbulok spring would be converted into another source of potable water, swimming and soaking in the deep bulokbulok spring would just become a thing of the past.(Quirico M. Gorpido,Jr.)
Postscript: Water is life and it’s precious. Do not waste it even if your faucet/s is located near the main water reservoir and has a constant supply of water day and night. Much more to those households that are located far from the water sources. Avoid also leaving a faucet/s unclosed if it has no water coming out after opening. Leaving the faucets unclosed would become the conduits of water wastage if nobody is around to check it. Even if somebody is around in the house or in the boarding house, you should not rely on them but do your filial obligation as a dweller/s or lodger/s.Make your common sense active. Allow it to work for the benefit of all. Avoid squandering this all-purpose liquid. Remember that some folks are fetching their drinking water far from their respective residences.
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