Ucf water 2 nida cabrera - cebu city's septage management program

1. CEBU CITY’S SEPTAGE
MANAGEMENT
PROGRAM
UNDERSTANDING CHOICES FORUM Water Series 2
OCTOBER 9, 2015 RAFI-EADSC Plenary Hall
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Nida C. Cabrera
Chairperson: Committee on Environment, Committee on Public Services,
Committee on Cooperatives and Livelihood
13th Sangguniang Panlungsod (Cebu City Council)
2nd Floor Legislative Building, Cebu City Hall

2. CONTENTS
1. BACKGROUND
2. MILESTONES & TIMELINES
3. THE CEBU CITY SEPTAGE
MANAGEMENT ORDINANCE & KEY
COMPONENTS
4. CURRENT STATUS & ACTIVITIES
5. WAYS FORWARD
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3. BACKGROUND
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River emits foul smell, Pasil folk complain
Sun.Star Cebu, Sunday, July 13, 2014
“Residents of Barangay Pasil are asking for the intervention of the Cebu City Government
on the dumping of human and septic wastes on a portion of the Guadalupe River that
traverses in their area.”
Rampant dumping of
septic wastes in our
water bodies pose health
and environmental
hazards.
The Metro Cebu Dev’t &
Coordinating Board (MCDCB)
urges local government units to
pass an ordinance for mandatory
desludging of septic wastes.
"Maybe we should request the
legislative bodies of the LGUs to
pass an ordinance on it," said Cebu
Gov. Hilario Davide III, chairman of
MCDCB.

4. Septage generation in Metro
Cebu
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STP200m3/d
111m3/d
59m3/d
9.5m3/d
31m3/d
15m3/d
96m3/d
34m3/d
In the Metro Cebu
Septage
Management
Project Feasibility
Study Report,
septage generation
in these areas are
estimated as the
septage volume of
2015.

5. MILESTONES & TIMELINES
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Study tour to Japan
June 25, 2014
November 2014
Dec. 10, 2015
2016
Unveiling Ceremony of Pilot Septage Treatment Plant
Formulation of the Implementing Rules and Regulations
July 11, 2014 Approval of Septage Management Ordinance
Project Workshop to present survey results; Presentation of
approved IRR
August-Oct 2015
Turnover of equipment
Start of 2-year Pilot Project with JICA, Amcon, Yokohama CityJanuary 2014

6. City Ordinance 2398: Septage
Management, 11 July 2014
Septage Treatment Plant
STP public
launching –
June 26,
2014, made
possible thru
partnership
with JICA &
AMCON, and
sister city
MOU with
Yokohama.

7. SEPTAGE MANAGEMENT
ORDINANCE
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1. Title: AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR A SEPTAGE
MANAGEMENT PROGRAM FOR THE CITY OF
CEBU, PROVIDING FEES AND IMPOSING
PENALTIES FOR NON-COMPLIANCE THEREOF.
2. Declaration of Policy: It the policy of the City
Government of Cebu to adopt measures to
protect the health of the people and the
environment by controlling, managing, and
regulating the storage, collection, transport,
treatment, and disposal of septage or sludge
from various sources.

8. SEPTAGE MANAGEMENT
ORDINANCE
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3. Coverage: the entire territorial jurisdiction of
the City of Cebu, …shall apply to all buildings
and structures, public or private, residential or
commercial, institutional or industrial, proposed,
planned or existing, as well as all kinds of sea
vessels whether foreign or local, private or
government-owned, found within the municipal
waters of the City generating domestic sewage.

9. SEPTAGE MANAGEMENT
ORDINANCE: KEY COMPONENTS
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1. Creation of the Septage Management Board
(Sections 19, 20, 21)
2. Septic Hauler Accreditation System (Section 14)
3. Manifest System (Section 17)
4. Septic Tank Inventory (Section 6)
5. Septic Permit (Section 6)
6. Mandatory Desludging (Section 11)
7. Communal Septic Tanks (Section 7)

10. 10
SEPTAGE MANAGEMENT
BOARD
MANDATE
→ Responsible for administering and coordinating the implementation of the Cebu
City Septage Management Plan.
COMPOSITION
→ Chair: City Mayor or his duly designated representative
→ Vice Chair: Chairperson of the Committee on Public Services, Sangguniang
Panlungsod (SP)
→ Members:
Chairperson, SP Committee on Environment
Chairperson, SP Committee on Housing
Cebu City Environment & Natural Resources Office (CCENRO)
Head, Department of Public Services
Head, City Health Department
Association of Barangay Councils (ABC)
Environmental Management Bureau (EMB 7)
Metropolitan Cebu Water District (MCWD)
Non-government organization duly accredited by the Cebu City Government
and the DENR
Association of Septic Haulers duly accredited by the City of Cebu
Cebu City Schools Division Superintendent
Plus (pending amendment): Office of the Building Official, Executive Director

11. WHY is septic haulers accreditation system necessary?
→ To ensure private haulers to have experience and expertise as well
as equipment to handle septage appropriately
→ To prevent septage leak in the middle of the city and charge them if
it happens
WHY is manifest system needed?
→To check whether or not environmentally sound septage collection
and transport are implemented by private haulers
→To understand and record how much septage are collected,
transported and treated in the target area
→To confirm how much money paid by whom along the septage flow
of collection, transport, and treatment
→To prevent illegal dumping.
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Septic Haulers Accreditation
and Manifest System

12. Septic Tank Inventory
and Septic Permit
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WHY is Septic Tank Inventory needed?
→To detect non-compliant septic tanks and individuals (e.g. no
desludging when required, septic tanks without septic permit, non-
conforming septic tanks).
→To understand how many & which properties are without septic tanks.
→To find septic tanks needing the required desludging (collection
points).
→For the future comprehensive septage management planning.
WHY is Septic Permit needed?
→To ensure that newly constructed septic tanks have complied with
septic tank construction criteria.
→To improve existing septic tanks. (Existing tanks constructed prior to the
effectivity of the Ordinance are given 2-3 years to comply. Incentive
scheme being explored thru IRR for people who secure septic permit prior
to the 2-3 period.)

13. SAMPLE OF SEPTIC TANK
INVENTORY
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14. CCENRO
P/H
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Properties w/ septic tanks to be
de-sludged
Properties w/o septic tanks
Private haulers
decide the
schedule of
septic hauling
by contacting
property
owners
(proposed scheme
being discussed
subject to approval
of the Septage
Board.)
septic
hauling
schedule
plan in
Brgy. xxx
• Contract with private hauler who bid at the cheapest
price
• Approve septic hauling schedule plan of the private
hauler.
• Monitor hauling activities
(proposed scheme being discussed subject to approval of the Septage
Board.)
Barangay
xxx
Mandatory Desludging

15. Communal Septic Tanks
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WHY are Communal Septic Tanks needed?
→ Communal or shared septic tanks can be used alternatively,
whenever feasible, particularly for existing clustered
structures that are highly dense and characterized by lack of
or inadequate land space.
The design and the manifest of ownership and joint
maintenance of communal septic tanks shall require prior
approval from the City.

16. Current Status
Customer
Septage
Treatment
Plant
De-sludgers
CCENROBarangay
office
De-sludging
Submits baseline data
and regular report
Transport
1.Septic Permit for
new construction
of septic tanks;
2.For septic tanks
constructed prior
to the effectivity
of the Ordinance:
Compliance up to
three (3) years;
3.Mandatory
desludging every 3
years or when the
tank is half full;
household with
less than 10
members to
desludge every
(five) 5 years;
4.Communal
system for small
houses of light
materials or
temporary in
nature & are close
to one another.
1.Accreditation of desludgers;
2.Annual accreditation fee.
1.Disposal Fee at P250/cu.m. at STP;
2.Other EMB-certified treatment
plants must treat in-house waste.
(IRR)
Note: There is a plan to put up wastewater treatment facility at the NRA.
MANIFEST
SYSTEM
from waste
generation
to disposal
•Conducts IEC
•Requires manifest
receipt every desludging
•Coordinates efforts for
the establishment of
communal system
City Health
Department
Excavation Fee
Submits report
OBO
Inspection/
Verification
of septic
tanks
Septage
Management Board:
•IRR, guidelines,
including manifest
system
•Accreditation
•Enforcement, monitoring
•Site inspection
•Renders report to Septage Board

17. Current septage management activities
under the Pilot Project & Implementation
of Ordinance (1)
• Present status analysis (Urban Barangay)
• Target of survey is 1,600 households
• 10% of household have no ST
• 50% of household have no de-sludging service in past 5 years
• Accessibility for de-sludging truck is 76%

18. Current septage management activities
under the Pilot Project & Implementation
of Ordinance (2)
• Inventory & Database -Achievements-
• For further improvement of Septage treatment
- Expand collection coverage & construction of toilets & Septic Tanks
• Door to door survey, and 15 Urban Barangays are covered as of Sept.
2015

19. Current septage management activities
under the Pilot Project & Implementation
of Ordinance (3)
• Accreditation of Private Hauler
• Legal Entity
• Office & Garage
• Manpower
• Septage hauling truck
• Compliance to manifest system, etc.
• Manifest System
• Items to be filled in paper are decided
• Roles of players are decided
• Formulation of the Implementing Rules & Regulations
HAULER

20. Current septage management activities
under the Pilot Project & Implementation
of Ordinance (4)
• Operation of De-Watering Machine
• Operation of Lagoon
 Gate Management
 Improvement of Lagoon
 Constructed Wet-Land with Aerators
• Water Quality Analysis: determined the biochemical oxygen
demand (BOD) removal rate of the Volute De-Watering
Machine and the lagoon over a six-month period (December
2014 to May 2015).

21. Current
System
• Operation & Maintenance of De-Watering Machine
& Lagoon
• Accreditation of private haulers/desludgers
• Enforcement of Manifest System
• Formulation of the IRR
Feasible
Improvement
• Lagoon Improvement (ongoing)
• Compost Facility
• Other requirements (Laboratory)
Comprehensive
Improvement
• Scheduled de-sludging system
based on inventory
• Communal septic tank
construction
• Implementing structure and
budget
Ways Forward: Toward a Comprehensive
Improvement of the Septage Treatment System

22. NECESSARY COMPONENTS
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COMPONENTS OF SEPTAGE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
Septage Collection and Transport System
1. Target area & amount of septage to be collected
2. Septic hauler accreditation system
3. Manifest system
4. Septic tank inventory
5. Septic Permit
Charging System
Expenditure
1. Initial cost (STP construction cost)
2. Operation cost
3. Maintenance cost
4. Depreciation cost
5. Communal Septic Tank Fund
Revenue
1. Treatment and Disposal fee
2. Accreditation fee
3. Septic permit fee
4. Excavation fee
Administrative Arrangement
1. Cebu City Septage Management Board (CCSMB)
2. Cebu City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CCENRO)
3. City Health Department (CHD)
4. Office of the Building Official (OBO)
5. CTO (City Treasurer’s Office)

23. End of Presentation.
Thank You.