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P1.4B earmarked for Manila Bay rehab amid reclamation controversy--solon

Published Aug 13, 2023 07:03 am

At A Glance

  • The clean-up and rehabilitation of Manila Bay pursuant to a Supreme Court (SC) order has been allotted another P1.4 billion under the proposed 2024 national budget, Quezon City 4th district Rep. Marvin Rillo said on Sunday, Aug. 13.

IMG-4357b0a82d4362b7200fe6d0fa5ec040-V.jpgManila Bay reclamation (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN)

 

 

 

 

 

The clean-up and rehabilitation of Manila Bay pursuant to a Supreme Court (SC) order has been allotted another P1.4 billion under the proposed 2024 national budget, Quezon City 4th district Rep. Marvin Rillo said on Sunday, Aug. 13. 

Rillo highlighted this detail in the P5.768-trillion National Expenditure Program (NEP) for 2024 amid the conduct of controversial, massive reclamation projects in Manila Bay. 

“The DENR’s (Department of Environment and Natural Resources) Operational Plan for the Manila Bay Coastal Management Strategy will be receiving another P1.4 billion in 2024. The sum is in addition to the P1.5 billion earmarked (for the operational plan) in this year’s national budget,” he said. 

“We are all for the complete environmental restoration of Manila Bay for the enjoyment of future generations of Filipinos,” noted the neophyte congressman. 

Rillo is vice chairperson of the Committee on Metro Manila Development and a member of the Committee on Appropriations. The appropriations panel will begin it per agency budget deliberations on the 2024 NEP this week. 

The operational plan for Manila Bay is pursuant to the SCt’s 15-year-old continuing mandamus directing the DENR and a dozen other agencies to restore the sea inlet’s waters to Class B, and make them suitable and safe for public swimming, skin-diving, and other forms of contact recreation. 

At present, Manila Bay’s waters are largely unsafe for public swimming due to severe contamination with human toilet waste and the heavy presence of disease-carrying bacteria and viruses. 

DENR Secretary Maria Antonio Yulo-Loyzaga had earlier expressed grave concern that the reclamation projects, which are now under review, could obstruct the DENR from fulfilling its duties under the 2008 mandamus. 

The DENR chief said the reclamation projects could upset the operations of existing and future sewage treatment plants (STPs) to be built around Manila Bay. 

The STPs are meant capture and clean Metro Manila’s wastewater before they drain into the bay. 

Rillo said the budget for the rehabilitation of Manila Bay also covers the relocation of around 233,000 informal settler families that reside along the bay’s 190-kilometer coastline and directly discharge their wastewater into the inlet.

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