SANGAL DI KULTURA

erate power which was not yet there a decade ago when we has a project of developing the Spring of Burgos and delivering municipal water to at least four barangays. I enjoyed our stay there as it also opened them to the development of natural beauty spots like the Kapurpurawan, Cape Bohedor tower and others.

Last week we had an opportunity to visit South and North Sanitary Camp barangays for the bigasan sa barangay. As we stood with Nenita a barangay Kagawad and a classmate of my sister Joyce, looking out of the window of the North Sanitary Camp barangay, together we were reminiscing our childhood of Parapad waterfalls and swimming pool, that of planting watercress in Balili River.

We enjoyed the fruits of the wide gardens of the Ibalois during our time, before it was converted into the sewer plant, the irony of converting healthy plants to an environmental plant. When the sewer plant started with the Japanese partners, it was working very well, and the neighborhood has not experienced problems. At the moment, the volume it is processing is way beyond the limit and the offensive smell is terrible, and pollutes the air. A study needs to be done with relation to health issues experienced in the four barangays surrounding that sewer plant.

Infrastructure projects are geared to improve people’s lives – shorter route from Tubao to Baguio, centralized sewer plants and others – and we pray this will be a total holistic development for several generations and not only for the present.