Bulan Water District has been recipient of big loans from LWUA with actual availments aggregating Ph 35.937 Million as of March 31, 1997.  The bulk of these financial assiatance came from:

  • Initial Php 100,000.00 mini loan granted in July 1978 to finance the construction of the office building.
  • Php 5.150 Million IIP loan approved in august 1979 which finance the immediate interim improvements needs. In 1981, the Phase 1-A project was implemented under the management of Mr. Antonio O. Vytiaco.  The improvements program involved the replacement of old cast iron pipes with 225 mm UPVC pipes from mariboc Spring up to Barangay Roxas with an approximate length of 5 kilometers.
  • Level III loan amounting to Php 32.089 Million (net of Php 6.343 Million government grant) approved in December 1992 to finance the rehabilitation and replacement of transmission distribution mains and purchase of service connection materials. In 1993, the Interim Improvement Program (IIP) was implemented for additional transmission and distribution mains from Barangay Roxas to the town proper using 200 mm UPVC pipes passing the ground reservoir at Barangay Somagongsong to augment the water pressure with a total length of 17,844 meters.

Funded under DANIDA V package, the said Level III project aimed to address the existing system deficiencies such as the inadequate water supply brought about by a very high unaccounted for water.

Implementation of the project, however, suffered delays and it was only in mid 1995 that it was reported complete.  It is worth mentioning that the BWD has been up-to-date  in its loan obligations with LWUA.  Records of Bulan Water District is remarkably impressive as far as LWUA loan obligations settlement is concern.

In 2008, the Bulan Water Distirct acquired an additional source- the Halagok-hagok Spring in Barangay Calpi, whereby the Local Government Unit(LGU) Bulan  constructed the two(2) intake tanks.  This project was interconnected at Barangay Roxas with a total length of 4200 meters using 150 mm PVC pipes.

WATER SOURCES:

At present, the Bulan Water District Water Supply System maintains two(2) spring sources; one is the Mariboc Spring at Barangay Dolos and the other one is the Halagok-hagok Spring at Barangay Calpi with individual intake boxes. Two(2) deep wells at sitio Pawa and at Barangay Lajong and the latter is not yet operational until end of the 1st quarter of 2018.

With the rapid increase on demands for water services, the concessionaires of Bulan have increasingly asking for sufficient supply of water.  On this process the Bulan Water District has been utilizing water supply from Mariboc Spring at Brg. Dolos, Bulan, Sorsogon, this has been the standard operation for so many decades.

The Mariboc Spring is the main water source that supplies more than half of the BWD concessionaires but as the time goes by the spring has been depleting to its critical level due to deforestation, extreme weather condition and below normal rainfall. Because of the rapid depletion BWD lost 898 concessionaires by second quarter of 2015.  This has alarmed the management to develop a new water source to augment water that will sustain the water supply of Bulan.

This Lead to the construction of two deep wells at Barangay Lajong and Sitio Pawa to support the operation of the Bulan Water District.

Currently,the Bulan Water District had already developed/finished  projects to wit:

  1. Parallel pipe line of 1.1km, 150mm PVC Pipe at Mariboc Spring.
  2. Replacement of asbestos pipes to 200mm & 150mm PVC pipes.
  3. Barangay Aquino looping a 2”hdpe pipeline improving a 6/12hours supply to 24/7.
  4. New pipeline installation at Bliss and Barngay Fabrica.
  5. Construction of Pawa Deep Well and Lajong Deep Well
  6. Looping pipeline at Zone 2.