The tourist towns of Dauis and Panglao have stopped using the Dampas dump site in this city in their garbage disposal system on orders of City Mayor Dan Neri Lim. The order came for Panglao to stop using the garbage dump was issued the other week while Dauis cease to use the same dump site only last week. The closure of the Dampas open garbage dump to the two towns is the best argument why a cluster of 11 municipalities decided to throw their garbage in one controlled environment. This actually is the idea behind the Alburquerque Landfill Project which will host as the dumping area of ten municipalities, an undertaking funded by the Philippine Tourism Authority. Although as tourist towns they are prohibited by law to set up their own garbage facility, the two local government units were forced to dump their trash in temporary “transfer stations”. For so long, the two towns were allowed to throw their garbage at the Dampas open dump site until Mayor Lim issued the stop order. With the Dampas site now closed to the two towns, it was gathered that Panglao has developed a temporary landfill facility in barangay Libaong. Dauis is said to have chosen a site in barangay Mariveles for its own dump site.

Under the Solid Waste Management Law open dump sites are already prohibited. This explains why the Dampas site is slowly being closed to some of its users. The same law also provided for the construction of a water treatment facility for the residual liquid wastes. In the city of Tagbilaran, Mayor Lim's administration is planning to acquire a seven-hectare property in Taloto to pave the way for the construction of the water treatment facility. A landfill for the city's garbage disposal system will also be constructed in the area. The water treatment project will process all the waste water coming from the drainage network of this city along CPG Avenue. The treated water will then run off to the seawaters off the Tagbilaran Bay. To finance the water treatment facility, the city has applied a loan with the Development Bank of the Philippines to the tune of P150 million.