Conference on Environmental Science and Technology

Abstract The project is intended for a first class Municipality in the Philippines, a joint project of the Tourism Infrastructure & Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA), primarily to address the environmental degradation, due to influx of worldwide tourists, who visited the town, to enjoy and experience the beauty of the natural environment, the sea, sun and sand. The subject of the study lack adequate wastewater treatment faiclity, to treat the wastewater produced from hotels, commercial establishmens, and residencs. The town’s economic activities rely mostly from the natural environment, through tourism, which contributes a big portion of economy income with an estimated annual revenue of Php4.7 Billion Pesos. It is in this noble project, that the Local Govenrment develop a sustainable management of the natural resources, to ensure public health and environmental protections through the provision of a sustainable nature-based solution centralized sewage treatment plant and septage collection project. The project also is in compliance of the Philippine Clean Water Act otherwise known as Republic Act 9275, and its Implementing Rules and Regulations. The Local Govenrment Unit, with the assistance of the TIEZA, has been fortunate to received a grant to implement the sustainable nature-based solution centralized sewage treatment plant and septage collection, to address the worsening wastewater problems in the town.