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ASIDE from a waste disposal facility, the Cebu provincial government plans to set up other businesses in the 25-hectare beach resort property in barangay Tinaan, Naga town in southern Cebu.
Provincial Planning and Development Officer Adolfo Quiroga said the Capitol intends to put up a waste to energy facility in a portion of the beach front property bought from the late Engr. Luis Balili in a joint venture with a private investor.
Earlier Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia said structures inside the beach lot could also be rehabilitated to serve as the venue for workshops and seminars.
Provincial Board Member Juan Bolo said the property consists of 11 parcels of land costing P610 per square meter.
Bolo, chairman of the PB committee on real properties, said while they bought the property “cheap” at P100 million, the Capitol considers the property as a potential source of economic enterprises for the province.
He said the Balili lot is ideal for the establishment of an economic zone because it was close to the sea.
Quiroga showed to Cebu Daily News an aerial shot of the beach property, a large portion of which is dry land.
The property also has three fish ponds and a mangroves swamp with the bigger fishpond measuring about 56,199.87 square meters.
Quiroga said fly ash to be generated by a coal plant near the site would be dumped to cover the fishpond and other wet portions of the property.
He told CDN that the provincial government also intends to reclaim at least five hectares of foreshore land for a port.
During low tide, part of the foreshore land is about five meters from the site road level.
The Capitol signed an agreement with Kepco SPC Power Corp. to to build a waste disposal facility in the Balili property.
The facility will process fly ash to be generated by Kepco's coal plant once it starts operations in 2011.
Part of the ash waste will be used for a five-hectare reclamation project planned by the Capitol.
Residents in the area asked the Capitol officials to give them passage in the area in order to allow them to continue fishing there./Reporter Doris C. Bongcac
