Clean up participants use the suction hose connected to a truck to pull the clog through the drain opening in Barangay Basak, Lapu-Lapu City. (CDN PHOTO/NORMAN MENDOZA)
THE Lapu-Lapu City government kicked off a series of cleanup activities yesterday in Barangay Basak.
This yearly tradition of Mayor Paz Radaza will be held all throughout the city until the year’s end.
The activity was joined by military personnel from the Philippine National Police, Philippine Air Force, Pilippine Navy, Bureau of Fire Protection and the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology.
The city’s clean and green and engineering departments and barangay workers also assisted in the cleanup.
Mayor Paz Radaza said the project would remind business establishments, vendors and the public of their responsibility to dispose their garbage properly.
Most barangays already have their own small materials recovery facility (MRF), where trash are segregated before it will be turned over to the bigger MRF in Barangay Mactan.
Though the barangays are implementing the solid waste management program, there are also people who dispose their garbage improperly without getting apprehended.
The city government chose to launch its cleanup drive in Barangay Basak because the barangay is a low-lying area and is prone to flooding during heavy rains.
“Dili na sama sa una kadtong wala pa ang parallel drainage diri nga grabe gyud ang baha (It’s not like before when the parallel drainage was not yet constructed that there was extreme flooding), said Basak Barangay Captain Isabelo Darnayla.
The cleanup activity that ended at noontime saw several sacks of garbage, composed mostly of plastic, extracted from the drainage.