PHNO-HL: TAAL LAKE FLOATING RESTO HAS NO SEPTIC TANK; DEMOLITION ORDERED

TAAL LAKE FLOATING RESTO HAS NO
SEPTIC TANK; DEMOLITION ORDERED

[PHOTO - Disguised toilet:
A korean-owned floating restaurant in the middle of Taal Lake has no septic
tank. It also lacks waste disposal facilities for its garbage
(inset)]
MANILA, MAY 22, 2012 (STANDARD) by Christine F. Herrera - THE
government has ordered a Korean-owned floating restaurant demolished for using
Taal Lake as a giant toilet, dumping its waste directly into the water.
Armed with a writ from the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals, the
Environment Department gave Jung Ang and Leisure Inc., which owns the restaurant
in the middle of the volcano crater, five days to demolish the structure or the
authorities will do it for them.
Agham Rep. Angelo Palmones sought the courts' intervention against the
restaurant to resuscitate the lake. The Environment Department.
In its closure order, the Community Environment and Natural Resources Office
listed nine violations, including the restaurant's lack of waste segregation and
disposal facilities.
"The resort, which has a main building, a swimming pool, an open area and a
floating restaurant that caters to foreign and local tourists, was constructed
in 2008, and is sitting literally in the lake water," Laudemir Salac, the
agency's chief, said.
"As observed during the inspection, all toilet facilities in the resort,
particularly those for urine and the washing area, were not connected to septic
tanks and directly drain into the lake."
Salac said the restaurant's operators did not present any business permits
during an inspection of its facilities. The Koreans also reclaimed some portions
of the lake without clearance.
"Taal Lake is a protected area but the floating Korean restaurant-resort got
away with the crime and had been in operation for the last four years," Palmones
told the Manila Standard.
"The owners should be made to pay for abusing the lake and aggravating the
fish kill problem."
Palmones said the people raising pigs in the area had been ordered to put up
their own treatment plants. The Supreme Court had also ordered the demolition of
the fish cages around the lake, he said.

(Published in the Manila Standard Today newspaper on /2012/May/21)



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