Motorists struggle to cross a flooded part of the highway in Kauswagan during a heavy downpour on Thursday afternoon. (photo by joey nacalaban)
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By NITZ ARANCON
Correspondent .

THE head of city hall’s disaster risk reduction management office called on the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to speed up the ongoing construction of the drainage system along the highway in Kauswagan even as he blamed last week’s floodings there on the slow work of its contractor.

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Allan Porcadilla, head of the City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Department, complained about the unfinished construction works, saying this has resulted in the flooding of portions of the highway from Kauswagan to Bulua.

Porcadilla also complained about the slow construction of a drainage system along Gumamela extension for rising floodwaters in some parts of Carmen. The project contract, he said, was awarded to Jejors Construction.

He said there is a need to build a proper drainage system near the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) and Country  Village Hotel in Carmen. He said the absence of an efficient drainage system there causes floods along Villarin Street towards the areas surrounding the Cagayan de Oro College-Phinma.

Porcadilla however pointed out that the NIA area is included in city hall’s development plan “pero wala pa man matrabaho, ma-o nang ang tubig ulan sa Villarin Street, walay outlet.”

He did not say what has been causing the delay in the drainage construction.

Porcadilla said city hall’s plan is to build a drainage system from the NIA area all the way to the Cagayan River via the Liceo  de Cagayan University area.

He said he was optimistic that the drainage system being built by DPWH and the ones being planned by city hall in Carmen, once done, would  rid the city some of its urban fooding problems.

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