Built in 2002, the MCWD Main Building on Magallanes corner Lapu-Lapu Sts, Cebu City. The P194-million building took three years to finish and is a symbol of pride of the water district. MCWD’s first office was located on M.J. Cuenco Ave., fronting Plaza Independencia. However, a fire hit the building. MCWD moved to its acquired property, the former Smith, Bell and Co. building on corner P. Burgos and Magallanes Sts., now leased by Prince Warehouse Club Inc.

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In 2012, the Buhisan Dam turned 100 years old andcontinues to provide water to Cebu City residents up to present. Funded by P550,000 from the Insular Government at the time of Governor General William Cameron Forbes, Cebuano Speaker Sergio Osmeña Sr. and Governor Dionisio Jakosalem helped ensure the project will be completed to address the rash of fires and a cholera outbreak in Cebu in 1909. The 27-meter high dam includes a distribution reservoir called Tisa Filter Plant and was inaugurated in February 1912 through a ceremony in a fountain, now known as Fuente Osmeña.

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Officially known as Mananga Phase I Project, the MCWD Jaclupan Facility is a P770-million water supply improvement project designed to catch, impound and pump out 33,000 cubic meters of water per day. Completed in 1998, the Jaclupan Facility includes 15 wells, a seven-meter mini dam or diversion weir, a sedimentation and infiltration facilities. It was completed in 1998 and continues to supply to consumers in Talisay City up to Cebu City through 6,000 meters of raw water transmission mainlines and 43 kilometers of distribution and transmission pipelines.

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As old as the Buhisan Dam, the Tisa Filter Plant is a distribution reservoir located below the dam to allowwater to flow by gravity. The plant uses the Rapid Sand Filter as the medium in the filtration process. From the Buhisan Dam, the water is treated through the processes of coagulation, flocculation and aeration prior to chlorination.

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Just a few kilometers from the MCWD Jaclupan Facility, the MCWD Jaclupan Weir allows the water to pool above it to enhance the impounding of water in the area. Further, it mitigates flooding downstream or in adjacent barangays of Mananga River. Similarly scenic and serene as the Jaclupan Facility although the area is smaller, the Jaclupan Weir displays the functionality of this man-made barrier built across the Mananga River to control the flow of water.

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The D’ Family Park, which is the first of its kind in Cebu, provides families with an alternative and wholesome recreation site within the city while serving as a venue for the protection and regeneration of local flora. The 20-hectare nature park was opened to the public on May 8, 1999 and is nestled in the Nasipit mini-watershed. It is half a kilometer from the MCWD main gate and a jogger’s path leading to the park is lined with trees, a product of a reforestation effort in 1983. It has swings and slides and a picnic site, two swimming pools, a multi-function club house and pavilion. The lagoon in the Friendship Garden serves a recharge area for MCWD’s Talamban wellfields.

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In 2016, MCWD received a grant from the Japanese Government, through the Japan International Cooperation Agency for the Supervisory Control and Data
Acquisition (SCADA) System that now allows the water district to quickly respond to water supply problems in specific areas that have on-site on-field monitors. The SCADA Room at the MCWD Main Building houses some of the P679-million worth of equipment and software that are helping MCWD monitor pressure and volume of water supply, reservoirs and well pump stations all over Metro Cebu.

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The MCWD Laboratory is among the 13 laboratories in Central Visayas accredited by the Department of Health 7. Located in Nasipit, Talamban City, it accepts requests for physical, bacteriological and chemical analyses. MCWD Laboratory personnel conduct water quality tests daily to monitor water quality and check for chemical and bacteriological contaminants in the water district’s water sources and representative points from the consumers’ taps. MCWD’s water quality passes the standards set by the Philippine National Standards for Drinking Water.

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