Some of the participants, including some board directors and guests, pose for posterity during the 30th Annual General Membership assembly of Leyte II Electric Cooperative, Inc. in Babatngon, Leyte last Sunday, March 27, 2011. MELCHOR CASPE
TACLOBAN CITY – The City Government formed an immediate solution regarding the serious flooding problem in the city by implementing the Master Drainage Plan.
The Master Drainage Plan is the move to reconstruct damaged drainages and waterways in the city. Dionisio de Paz, officer-in-charge of the City Engineers Office, said in an exclusive interview with the Leyte Samar Daily Express that the reconstruction of the drainages and waterways would really help in answering the flooding problem in the city.
Senate Bill No. 3483 prohibits the building of any establishments and houses 30 meter away from the waterways or creek. De Paz revealed that there are residential and business establishments in the city that were constructed within the perimeters of the waterways. These illegal constructions led to the ruin of some waterways.
With this, he further said that they have to clean first the area that covers the waterways in order to determine its damages so that they could formulate appropriate solution.
“This is the reason why the City Government through the City Engineers Office is conducting demolition in the Sampaguita, Utap and Picas areas,” he explained.
He also stressed that the drainage connects the waterways from Mahayahay, Linang, Mangonbangon and other waterways going to Burayan and Cancabato Bay which is the main outlet to the sea.
This project has a collaborative action of the Department of Public Works and Highways, City Assessor, City Engineers office, City Legal Office and the office of the City Administrator. (Noel Sevillano Talacay)
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