West Zone concessionaire Maynilad Water Services, Inc. (Maynilad), together with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), the local government of Parañaque, and the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) recently broke ground to install a sewer interceptor line that will catch wastewater generated by communities along Estero de Tripa de Gallina, thus helping to reduce pollution load to waterways that drain out to Manila Bay. Besides installing this sewer line, Maynilad will also maintain, through regular desludging, the communal septic tank that the DENR and Paranaque LGU will construct for the use of more than 1,800 people living along the estero.
Present at the groundbreaking were Maynilad officials led by President and CEO Ramoncito S. Fernandez and Chief Operating Officer Randolph T. Estrellado (10th and 8th from left, respectively), Parañaque Mayor Eric L. Olivares (7th from left), Congressman Edwin C. Olivares (9th from left), and DENR officials led by Assistant Secretary Gilbert C. Gonzales (6th from left). This project is part of Maynilad’s efforts to support the ongoing “Adopt an Estero” project of the Manila Bay Rehabilitation Program.