CENRO survey on PAMMA campus over

Posted on February 10, 2003 - Filed Under News |

THE Community  Environment and Natural Resources Office has already completed its survey of  the entire campus of the Pangasinan Merchant Marine Academy (PMMA) to find out  if it encroaches upon portions of the Pantal river.

The survey was undertaken in the light of a series of banner stories in the PUNCH about the alleged encroachment by   the school of a portion of the river even as its miscellaneous lease application with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources is yet to be approved.

Tagged as the area believed  to have been encroached upon was a portion of the river  where PAMMA built a mini-park, sheds, a concrete replica of a merchant ship and  a small dumpsite at the edge of the river.

The president of the school, Guillermo de la Cruz, was not around when the survey was conducted Monday. But he sent one school official and his own surveyor to oversee the work.

Community Environment and Natural Resources Officer Fernando Estrada said the miscellaneous lease application of PAMMA was frozen as her stressed that the latter’s supporting papers have only been submitted recently, obviously after PUNCH reported  the story.

Engr. Rodolfo Fernandez, executive assistant to Mayor Benjamin Lim told the PUNCH the applicant possibly anticipated the positive action to his application by DENR so he immediately built improvements in the area he applied.  

Meanwhile,  a meeting is set February 13 at the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office to discuss the petition of the city government seeking the cancellation of the new lease contract agreement between the  DENR and Mele’s.

PENRO endorsed  the renewal of the agreement entered into between  the government  and the late Miguel  Ferrer, owner of Mele’s  in 1972 which expired in August 1998 after 25 years.

The renewed contract signed between the DENR and the heirs of Ferrer is effective till August 2023.

Fernandez said the city government wants the DENR to cancel the new lease  agreement because Mele’s blocks  a proposed coastal road to be built by the city government from  Star Plaza Hotel to sitio Babaliwan in Poblacion Oeste.

Mele’s is allegedly being represented  by lawyer Alex Fernandez in its effort to fight for its right over the portion of the Pantal river leased to it by the DENR .

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