by magnolia_eic | Jan 24, 2011 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
Tagbilaran City, Bohol – ANG walay puas nga pag-ulan sukad naidtong Enero 17 nimugna og pagbaha sa mga kabasakan nga naka-apekto sa mga abot sa uma sa probinsiya sa Bohol.
GiKataho nga naapektuhan ang mga kabasakan sa mga lungsod sa Alicia ug Carmen.
Ang nasudnong dalan sa Larapan Jagna, kadali usab nga wala maagi-i tungod sa mga nangatumbang ponuan sa lubi apan ang mga tinugyanan sa Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) nihimo dayon og clearing operations.
Nisaka ang tubig sa suba sa lungsod sa Sevilla apan wala kini naghatag og kakuyaw tungod kay wala may mga kabalayan o mga tawo nga nagpuyo duol sa suba.
Ang lungsod sa Loboc nipahonong usab sa operasyon sa floating restaurant ug river cruise tungod sa pagsaka sa tubig sa suba.
Gimanduan sa Provincial Disaster and Risk Reduction Management ang mga police station sa pagpahibalo dayon sa sitwasyon sa ilang areas of responsibilities.
Hingpit nga gi monitor ang posibleng paglapaw sa tubig sa suba sa mga lungsod sa Sevilla, Loboc, Loay, Maribojoc, Cortes, Antequera, Loon, Calape, Tubigon, Clarin, Inabanga, Buenavista, Getafe, Trinidad, Alicia, Duero, Jagna, Valencia ug Lila.
Gi monitor usab ang posibleng landslides sa mga barangay sa kabukiran sa lungsod sa Jagna ug Candijay, Loboc ug San Isidro. (ecbPIABohol)
by magnolia_eic | Aug 18, 2010 | Headlines, National News
Malacanang is standing by its directive of prohibiting officials from placing their names and images in government project billboards and reminded those who are opposing it, that it is the people’s money being used in those projects.
“I think the message of the President is very clear; This is not the money of this administration, it’s not the money of the members of Congress, it is the money of tax payers,” according to Secretary Ricky Carandang of Presidential Communications Development And Strategic Planning office.
Last Monday, minority congressmen in the House of Representatives met with Department Of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Rogelio Singson to voice out their opposition to President Benigno S. Aquino’s directive not to place their names and pictures on project billboards.
Last week in accordance with the President’s instructions, DPWH issued Department Order 37, banning the placement of names and pictures of officials on government projects.
The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) followed suit by banning the names and pictures of politicians from project billboards and government patrol vehicles.
Carandang stressed that it is within the departments’ authority to issue memos pertaining to the banning of names and images on government projects.
He said the congressmen can question the memos but until proven otherwise, Carandang added, the order will stand. (PIA/PCOO)
by anyajulia | Oct 24, 2008 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
SUBLI nga gipasabot sa Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) ang ka-importante sa pasilidad sa drainage alang sa kadalanan aron dili kini dali nga mangaguba.
Kini usab samtang gisabutan na usab sa mga opisyal sa Bohol ug Tagbilaran ang solbad sa suliran nga makadaut hinuon sa bag-ong gisementong Carlos P. Garcia Avenue sa syudad.
Kasamtangang nag-antos sa pagbaha ug paglunop ang mga moagi ug namuyo sa CPG North bisan pag may tukmang drainage na nga napahimutang dinhi.
Ang lunop dala sa dili makagawas ang tubig binanlas sa uwan kay sirado pa ang gawasanan nga kanal niini. Sirado pa usab ang kanal awasanan niini kay wala itugot nga ihagbong lakip sa uwan ang hugaw nga gipa-agas sa kanal.
Gihimo na nga palisiya ni DPWH Sec. Hermogenes Ebdane ang pagpahimutang ug apil sa kanal sa foreign-assisted road projects. Gusto niya nga may tukmang line canals ug cross drains subay sa himoong mga nasudnong dalan sa nasud.
Ang kanal magtabang pagpahubas sa tubig aron dili makapahumok sa dalan hangyud kini dali madaut. (rachiu/PIA)
by anyajulia | Sep 25, 2008 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita
30 days is all it takes for city mayor Dan Lim to spend on “due process” after which will wield the strong arm of the law.
Within the next 30 days deadline, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) shall have issued notices and establishments should have voluntarily disconnected their taps.
And then the axes start falling, Mayor Lim reiterated during a recent drainage coordination meeting at the Mansion.
Present during the meeting were DPWH District engineer Celestino Adlaon, representatives from the regional office, Provincial Environment Officer Nestor Canda, City Mayor Dan Lim, representatives from Hanjin Heavy Industries Incorporated and Pacific Consultants.
Bohol Governor Erico Aumentado called for the meeting in hopes to finally resolve the issues behind the controversial drainage overflows flooding a city thoroughfare.
The overflow has been ascribed to a conduit closed by the local environment authorities to stop sewage from polluting the sea off Tagbilaran Bay.
The project consultants allegedly allowed the “illegal tapping” of commercial and residential establishments along Carlos P. Garcia Avenue to tap on the drainage; designed as a storm drain.
Himself clearly irritated by more finger pointing, this time from Hanjin Heavy Industries representatives during the meeting called Tuesday, Lim said he only needs the presence of technical men during the day he cuts the connections of those who refuse to do it voluntarily.
With Hanjin balking, Lim says now he only needs the local environment office to be with them.
Last week, Mayor Lim has chalked the deadline before the city government would forcibly disconnect the taps to assure that only rainwater run-off goes out of the drainage out-pour located at the dela Serna lot along Graham Avenue.
During the meeting, the governor also instructed PENRO Nestor Canda to monitor the water quality in San Jose and all the vicinities of Tagbilaran Bay so as to make sure that the possible water contamination, if any would be within tolerable limits.
Moreover, the governor also asked Canda to furnish the DPWH and the city government a copy of 31 illegal tap violators so as to facilitate the government’s next move. (rachiu/PIA)
by anyajulia | Aug 27, 2008 | Local News / Bohol Balita
DESPITE sticking to the “hands off policy” over foreign funded projects not under its supervision, the local Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) vehemently denies it has not acted on the drainage problem hounding portions of the city.
Until the project could be turned over to the local authorities, then the DPWH starts to have responsibility of the project, District 1 Engr. Celestino Adlaon hinted during earlier radio interviews.
That would also be assuming that the local authorities would want to accept a non-functional project causing hassles to motorists and at least 26 homeowners living on the lower portions of CPG which comes flooded every time a heavy downpour comes.
Adlaon insists that it is the Project Management Office (PMO) of the Philippine Japan Highways Loan Project (PJHLP) that has direct supervision of the faulty drainage system, which was incorporated with the Bohol Circumferential Road Improvement Project 2 (BCRIP 2).
In a radio interview, Adlaon pressed that it is only the PJHLP through its PMO that can order the contractor, Hanjin to disconnect the illegal sewer taps on the designed storm drain along CPG Avenue.
But, despite their being no players in the deal, the local DPWH clarified that on its part, has prepared plans and programs of work for the cutting of illegal connections and the de-silting of the drainage for national funding, the least they could do, a key DPWH First Engineering District Official said.
Cesar Damalerio, DPWH info officer also hinted that the national government may also refuse to accept the project with the illegal taps still on.
According to Engr. Adlaon, the PJHLP PMO has given the go signal for private and commercial establishments along the CPG to tap their sewerage pipes into the main canals, despite its specification as storm drains.
Over this, the local environment office has plugged the outfall canals of the main drainage to prevent possible water contamination caused by household waste water in Tagbilaran Bay.
The plugging also causes the rainwater to flow to the lower portions of the CPG and cause the flooding.
Over buck-passing of blames from government and project proponents, city residents have demanded action and not finger pointing over the worsening problem of flooding water from the city drainage.
Then reportedly a problem affecting only motorists, excess water has also caused headaches for residents of at least 26 home-owners settled at the back of Cogon Shrine Church.
Engr Adlaon added that the portion that the DPWH did was the P48M outflow along San Jose Street, which also remains to be useless. (rachiu/PIA)
