The Department of Environment and Natural Resources has issued an order for the owner of this privately owned dumpsite in Barangay Umapad to stop its operations (CDN FILE PHOTO).
Umapad landfill to be closed, collected garbage to be dumped in Casili dumpsite
The Mandaue City government will start dumping their garbage in a new dumping area in Barangay Casili by the middle of November this year.
This developed after the Department of Environment and Natural Resources ordered the closure of the Mandaue City government-owned sanitary landfill which was turned into a dumpsite, and another privately owned dumpsite in the area last month.
Architect Araceli Barlam, City Environment and Natural Resource Office (Cenro) head of Mandaue City, said they received last month DENR’s order to close the Umapad landfill and the privately owned dumpsite adjacent to the landfill in the barangay.
Barlam said that the DENR found several violations on environmental standards of operating a sanitary landfill and dumpsite as the reason for the closure.
She said they were given 60 days starting in the middle of September to completely close the dumpsite and stop dumping of garbage in the area.
Barlam said they were already preparing a dumping area in Barangay Casili, which the city planned to turn into a landfill based on Comprehensive Land Use Program (CLUP) of Mandaue City.
“We will definitely close the Umapad Dumpsite in compliance with DENR’s order who gave us 60 days and its nearing,” said Barlam.
Barlam said the DENR also ordered the private lot used as a dumpsite in Umapad to be closed for dumping, and the lot owner was also given 60 days to stop the dumping activity there.
Barlam said that the private dumpsite had been brought to their attention earlier this year after residents complained about the burning of garbage there.
“We are already communicating with the lot owner, but (the owner) denied operating a private dumpsite. Somehow, they are answerable to the violations committed by (those running the) dumpsite,” Barlam said.
She said the complaints of the dumpsite included the burning of plastic materials there which they would allegedly do at night until dawn.
Umapad sanitary landfill was closed in 2011 and reopened last year where collected unsegregated garbage from the Mandaue City would be dumped and segregated. Only the residual wastes would be transported and dumped to the landfill in Consolacion town in northern Cebu. But after a year, the dumping in the area was again not controlled and the landfill was turned into a dumpsite again and had been emitting odor.
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