Gov’t to implement over 5K flood-control projects nationwide

The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) will implement more than 5,000 flood control projects across the country.

“In continuing with the flood control projects all over the country, we are going to continue to implement another… more than 5,000 flood control projects,” DPWH Secretary Manuel Bonoan told President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. during a sectoral meeting in Malacañang on Tuesday, July 31.

Bonoan said these projects are the immediate engineering interventions in the principal rivers because his department is also implementing flood control management programs in 18 major river basins.

For Metro Manila, the DPWH has the Pasig-Marikina Flood Control Management System.

Menawhile, Marcos Jr. directed the DPWH to “consider actually not only the flow of floodwaters but also to impound initially the floodwaters in the watershed areas and this is a very important component that we need to address at this point in time.”

“And I think, basically, this is the solution that will impede actually the flow of floodwaters down to the low-lying areas,” the secretary said.IMT