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Songao: Irrigation district on Rota pulling through
Commonwealth Utilities Corp. board vice chair Diego Songao said that the irrigation district on Rota is slowly pulling through.
“I have talked to Sen. Paul Manglona (Ind-Rota) and Sen. Victor Hocog (Ind-Rota) already, but we need to sit down and look at a proposed plan from the Army Corps of Engineer,” Songao told Saipan Tribune in an interview yesterday.
Songao said that the proposed plan from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is comparative to the proposed water line and that he had met with one of the representatives from the Army Corps Engineers.
“He will be with us if he is going to discuss and see the waterline alignment and we need to take it and see it,” Songao said.
Songao said that he was not sure how much to the extent of the infrastructure that the Army Corps of Engineers proposes in its plan, but it will determine the funds that are needed for the irrigation district to push through.
Songao also said that he wasn’t sure when will it happen because he is still waiting on the Army Corps of Engineers.
According to Hocog they have signed the committee report.
“We signed the committee report and hopefully pass the committee report on Senate Bill 18-60,” Hocog said.
SB 18-60 was introduced by Manglona, which will establish an irrigation district in each senatorial district for the use of water strictly for irrigation and agricultural purposes and not for residential uses and for other purposes.
In October, the CUC board met noting that if there were any infrastructure that CUC would not use, the Army Corps of Engineers then wants to use the area, and CUC can sell or lease it.
