Council okays MOA for sewage project

THE 18th Davao City Council yesterday approved on third and final reading the ordinance for Memorandum of Agreement for the proposed wastewater project for the Maa Slaughterhouse.

The city council unanimously approved the legislative authority for Davao City Mayor Sara Z. Duterte-Carpio to enter into an agreement with Help Davao, Department of Science and Technology 11, and Sanifyt to improve the city's waste water.

Based on the draft of the ordinance, Sani-Embankment Project, the name of wastewater management is to be funded by the DOST 11, Dutch government, and private donors with the objective of helping the community through the introduction of low cost sanitation and flood prevention technology.

According to the MOA, the city will provide an area along Davao River

where the technology will be installed.

Help Davao will provide technical and infrastructure support. They will also be responsible in preparing the area for the facility. While Sanifyt and DOST 11 will design and develop the prototype of the project.

DOST 11 will be the monitoring institution that will supervise the project implementation output and compliance of the work plan. Meanwhile, Sanifyt will serve as a developer of the technology and administer the project plans in accordance with the workplan.

Earlier, DOST 11 Assistant Regional Director Mirasol Domingo said the Sani-Embankment Project will be a bigger version of the Vertical Helophyte Filtration System (VHFS), which will filter water from the Davao City's Slaughterhouse. KVC (For full story visit www. sunstar.com.ph/davao/)