Dolomite sand project in Manila’s baywalk criticized
An infrastructure-oriented think tank on Friday urged the government to reject the 500-meter Manila Bay white sand project with a P795,000 per meter tag price.Former representative Terry Ridon, Infrawatch PH convenor, said the P397.897 million budget for the project should be better spent for anti-COVID-19 pandemic measures.
“For comparison, the average cost of a two-lane road is around P25 million to P30 million per kilometer. The same amount can also fund a month’s social amelioration program for almost 80,000 vulnerable families,” the former lawmaker said. “Dolomite sand has typically been used for as: auxiliary materials for iron and steel, plate glass for construction materials, automotive glass, fertilizer, soil conditioner. Nothing in this list mentions dolomite as viable for use as artificial sand for beaches,” Ridon added.
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