City Ordinance No. 604 - Bacolod City

City Ordinance No. 604
September 5, 2012
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Section 8. PROHiBiTfOHS. Any person or establishment is prohibited from
discharging or cause disposal of any untreated wastewater, sludge, oil, grease, chemical,
or other waste to any part of the City that will endanger the environmental condition of the
City's rivers, creeks and waterways with corresponding penalties thereof as provided for in
Sec. 28 of Clean Water Act of 2004. AH activities done against the retention of areas within
certain distances along the banks of rivers, creeks, and coastal waters for environmental
protection shall "be considered prohibited acts such as hog and pouttry raising. In
accordance with Section 16, paragraphs 7 & 8 of P.D No. 705 otherwise known as
"Revised Forestry Code of the Philippines". Article 51 of P.D No. 1067 otherwise known
as "The Water Code of the Philippines", and, P.D No. 9003.
Section 16 of P.D No. 705, Areas needed for forest purposes:
7) Twenty-meter strips of land along the edge of the normal high watertine of
rivers and streams with channels of at least five (5) meters wide.
8) Strips of Mangrove or swamplands at least (20) meters wide, along shore-lines
facing oceans, lakes, and other bodies of water; and strips of land at least
twenty (20) meters facing lakes.
Article 51 of P.D, No. 1067 provides:
The banks of rivers and streams and the shores of the seas, and throughout their
entire length and within a zone of three (3) meters in urban areas, twenty (20) meters in
agricultural areas, and forty (40) meters in forest areas along their margins are subject to
the easement of public use in the interest of recreation, navigation, floatage, fishing and
salvage.
Section 9. PURCHASE OF EQUIPMEHTS. The following equipments shall be used
for the purpose of this ordinance to be safe kept by Disaster Risk Reduction Management
Office (DRRMO).
a) Refractometer - used to measure the salinity of water
b) Seccht Disk - circular disk used to measure water transparency
c) Dissolved Oxygen Meter (D.O. Meter) - used to measure the amount of
oxygen present me of water to indicate if the water is useful for a specific
application like river monitoring.
d) pH Meter - used for measuring the pH (acidity or alkalinity) of a liquid.
e) BloCleaner - used to treat all kinds of organic waste including residential,
commercial, industrial and municipal sectors It can be effectively used in
natural waterways such as rivers, lakes and bays.