Recommended ITOGON, Benguet—The town that hosts the country’s oldest mines has asked the government to exclude several villages from a watershed reservation so it could develop an engineered sanitary landfill (ESL). A resolution approved by the town council has urged the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to facilitate the exclusion of Barangay Tinongdan, Loacan, Gumatdang, Ampucao and Dalupirip from the Lower Agno Watershed Forest Reserve.
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