DENR sets deadlines for Boracay STP installation
Vintage bomb unearthed in San Jose
SAN JOSE, Antique – An undetonated vintage bomb was found at a construction site in this capital town.
One of the site’s workers discovered the explosive device around 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday in Barangay 4.
Carpenter Sandy Francisco of Barangay Kamalig, Jaro, Iloilo City was doing a surface- clearing operation when he found the bomb, police said.
The explosive device measured 4 inches in diameter and 12 inches in length. It has a small tube tail.
The bomb was now in custody of the Antique Police Provincial Office. It will be properly disposed of./
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has Circular which establishments DENR issued requires secretary No. Memorandum with all 2018- Roy 50 Boracay rooms Cimau 07, and STPs. Those above having to have 49 rooms their own and below individual may STPs, have clustered the circular or added. Memorandum Recently, the DENR Order issued No. 2018- clarificatory 752, which guidelines includes and deadlines in relation to the circular.
Based on t he order, hotels, resorts and similar establishments within the White/Long Beach area with 50 rooms and above shall install their own STPs on or before Oct. 26 – the scheduled reopening of the island.
Sewage generated by these
CNN establishments must conform to the DENR standard for Class SB water, the order added.
Class SB waters are coastal or marine waters that falls under the Recreational Water Class 1 (or water in areas regularly used by the public for bathing swimming, diving, etc.) and Fishery Water Class 3 (or water in spawning areas for and similar species), according
bangus to DENR Administrative Order No. 34. series of 1990.
Hotels or resorts with six to 49 rooms will be allowed to operate on Oct. 26 while constructing their respective STPs, provided that they connect to the existing sewage systems of the two water concessionaires in Boracay.
Their sewage must also conform to the DENR standard for Class SB water.
Moreover, establishments with 30 to 49 rooms have until Nov. 30 to construct their individual or clustered STPs.
Those with six to 29 rooms have until Dec. 31 to do the same.