Wednesday, 4 January 2012

Infrastructure


The major infrastructures in the City are the National Port, the Airport, the Libas Fishing Port, the Teodoro Arcenas Trade Center (TATC), the Dinggoy Roxas Civic Center, the Hall of Justice, the Jumbo Bridge, and the newly inaugurated Roxas City Convention Hall. It has 145.7241 kilometers (kms.) of road which 24.30 kms. are national, 38.870 kms. are city and 82.5541 kms. are barangays. Its bridges total to 459.25 meters (m.) of which 232.15 m. are national, 171.60 m. are city and 55.5 m. are barangay.
The City gets its power from the Capiz Electric Cooperative (CAPELCO). The number connection for in 2004 was 29,419 while the total number of houses served is 25,340. The Metro Roxas Water District (MRWD) supplies potable drinking water to the populace. The number of pipe water supply connection for CY 2005 is 16,701. The average water demand is 19,614.72 cu.m./day with a water consumption of 4,912,332.30 cu.m. The average domestic consumption is 199.26 liter per capita per day. Supplementing the water supplied by MRWD are wells with hand pumps and artesian wells which are constructed through the Barangay Water Program (BWP) and Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH).

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