Zamboanga City Development Council (CDC) has asked the city council to approve two watershed plans.
The City Development Council (CDC) has asked the city council to approve the management and development plans of two watersheds in Zamboanga City.
This, as Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco-Salazar, the mayor of Zamboanga City who led the CDC, on Wednesday said that the updated Ayala Watershed Management and Development Plan 2020-2030 followed the “ridge-to-reef concept” and landscape approach.
The Ayala watershed, measuring 3,347.36 hectares, covered seven barangays in Zamboanga City — Ayala, Baluno, Cawit, Dulian-Upper Pasonanca, Pamucutan, La Paz, and Labuan. Zamboanga City Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco-Salazar also said that the watershed has the potentials for high-value vegetable production, coffee growing, and other economic uses.
Salazar added that the 10-year plan sought to address issues and concerns affecting the watershed — including the presence of toxic materials from abandoned mining tailing pond, inadequate forest support budget, calcining flora, timber and wildlife poaching, inadequate access facilities, and lack of diversity.
The said plan, according to Salazar, also aimed to solve issues on timber poaching, lack of access road, no replacement of trees cut for charcoal production, and the relocation plan for occupants.
Aside from Ayala Watershed Management and Development Plan 2020-2030, Zamboanga City Development Council (CDC) has also approved and endorsed to the city council the updated Manicahan Watershed Management Development Plan 2020-2030. The Manicahan watershed covered eight barangays in Zamboanga City — Bungiao, Lamisahan, Lapakan, Dulian, Upper Bunguiao, Victoria, and Tolosa — with a population of 1,485 households.
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