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Tuesday, August 02, 2005
Agusan flood control tops public works projects in rating
By Ben Serrano
Caraga Correspondent
BUTUAN CITY -- With minimal resources and manpower in hand, Agusan's flood control project otherwise known as the Lower Agusan Development Project of the Cotabato-Agusan River Basin Development Program (LADP-CARDBP) Package IV bested all other DPWH Project Management Offices in the country with a quality control performance rating of 93.76 percent.
This was affirmed by the Bureau of Research and Standards Office headed by Judy F. Sese, the OIC Bureau Director who conducted the assessment rating in all Project Management Offices nationwide in terms of quality performance rating for all DPWH foreign assisted projects in the country.
Second to the Agusan flood control project was the Project Management Office of the Kamanava or the Caloocan, Malabon, Novaliches and Valenzuela flood control project in Metro Manila which garnered 90.9 percent.
The Project Management Office of the Pasig Floodway Project in Mangahan garnered the lowest quality performance rating done annually, the Bureau of Research and Standards Office said.
Engineer Phillip F. Meñez, Project Director and Head of Cluster C of the CARDBP-LADP in a memorandum congratulated the Package 1V Project Manager, Engineer Rogelio O. Ang and Engineer Aurelio C. Mendoza, Package IV Project Engineer including the Japanese Consultant firm, Nippon Koei Co., Ltd. headed by Takao Nakano for a job well done.
Package IV of the Lower Agusan Development Project (LADP) is a P912-M foreign assisted Masao River Improvement Project and the construction of the Urban Drainage System of Butuan City.
The project if finished by April 2006 is expected to lessen perennial flooding problem of Butuan City, which has been experiencing flooding every rainy season since its great flood in the early 1960's.
To date, the project's work accomplished with materials on hand is at 81 percent with a minimal slippage percentage of only 13 percent. The project that started last April 14, 2001 has a contract time of completion to 1,843 calendar days.
The Cotabato-Agusan River Basin Development Project is one of the flagship infrastructure projects of the Arroyo administration aimed to turn the huge Agusan River into one of the major source of irrigation for the huge, fertile thousands of hectares of agricultural land of the Agusan Valley into productive agricultural use.
(August 2, 2005 issue)
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