LMWD Rapid Filtration Plant Tingib, Pastrana, Leyte (Jaro)

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Pursuant to the provisions of Presidential Decree (P.D.) 198 as amended, it declared as a national policy local operation and control of water systems; it also chartered a national administration (now LWUA or Local Water Utilities Administration) that will facilitate improvement of local water utilities by way of water district formation, provision of financial, technical and management assistance to qualified water districts to the greatest extent practicable within the population centers in the Philippines.

It further encouraged by general act, the transfer of existing water supply and wastewater disposal facilities to a local water district that will be formed by virtue of said decree.· Thus, the then Leyte Metropolitan Water Supply System (LMWSS) and the Tolosa Waterworks System (TWS) were dissolved and formed into a single operating water system· through a Provincial Board Resolution No. 52, series of 1975, adopted on February 19, 1975.· On May 1, 1975 the dissolved water system became Leyte Metropolitan Water District; an autonomous and a quasi-public corporation governed by a five-member Board of Directors as policy makers and a General Manager, responsible in the entire operation of the district.· Thus, on October 6, 1975 the district was officially formed upon receipt of the Certificate of Conformance from LWUA. However, on September 13, 1991, the Supreme Court ruled that water districts are Government Owned and Controlled Corporations, and should therefore be placed under the Civil Service Commission (CSC) and the Commission on Audit (COA).

LMWD initially served 3,365 water concessionaires covering the municipalities of Dagami, Tolosa, Tanauan, Palo and the city of Tacloban.· As of December 2006 the number is pegged at 26,779 to include the municipalities of Tabon-Tabon, Sta. Fe and Pastrana.

Approximately 30,000 cubic meter of potable water is delivered to the LMWD service area every day with the main bulk of supply coming from the Rapid Filtration Plant located within the boundary of Tingib, Pastrana, Leyte and Brgy. Hibunawon, Jaro, Leyte.· The state-of-the-art treatment plant is first in Leyte which came to existence in the form of an aid from the Japanese government.