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Thursday, August 28, 2003
CEO to hire services of drainage experts
By Aurea A. Gerundio
SOME experts from Manila will arrive in Davao City to review the city's drainage system, City Engineers Office chief Meinrado Metran said Wednesday.
Metran said the presence in the city of the consultants, who are all doctors of water engineering, does not mean that the CEO is incapable of completing the drainage programs.
"We need our proposals to be double-checked," he said. "P398 million ang budget for the five-year master plan of drainage system but that is expected to increase more than half of the initial budget," Metran added.
Metran said at least P150 million had already been used from the budget within three years.
"Mga 35 percent pa lang ang na-himo so madungagan gyud ang budget (Only 35 percent was completed so we need additional budget)," he said.
Metran said among the areas that continuously experience flooding during heavy rains are those near the coasts like barangays 37, 39 and 23.
"Dugay pud mag-subside ang tubig kay daghan kaayo ang basura (It takes long for the floods to subside because there are a lot of garbage)," Metran said.
Metran said CEO is working their best to answer the city's perennial flooding problem. AAG
(August 28, 2003 issue)
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