Posts Tagged ‘Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)’
Written by anyajulia on 24 October 2008
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)
Tags: Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), drainage, facility
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Written by anyajulia on 25 September 2008
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)
Tags: City Governement, Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), illegal taps
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Written by anyajulia on 27 August 2008
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)
Tags: Bohol Circumferential Road Improvement Project 2 (BCRIP, Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), District 1 Engr. Celestino Adlaon, Project Management Office (PMO) of the Philippine Japan
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