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Arroyo okays Cong. Rufus’ P300 million Drainage Plan for Cagayan de Oro

February 5, 2009

By Lizanilla J. Amarga

Cagayan de Oro City 2nd District Cong. Rufus Rodriguez yesterday revealed that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has recently approved a P100 million Comprehensive Drainage Project designed to put up huge 48-inch diameter culverts in the city’s national highways.

He said these culverts will run underneath the national highways starting from Barangay Bugo to Barangay Consolacion and end up at the Cagayan de Oro River.

“These huge four-feet culverts, which a person can easily go inside, will act as the main arteries of our city’s drainage,” he told Gold Star Daily yesterday.

Rodriguez said it will now be up to the City Government under Mayor Constantino Jaraula to construct the secondary arteries and connect it to these main arteries to have a complete drainage system.

He said the City Government can even use 36-inches diameter or the 24-inches diameter culverts to connect to the 48-inches culverts that will be put in place by the Department of Public Works and Higways (DPWH-10).

He added that this will still be a major task on the part of the Jaraula administration considering how the city has a huge land area.

Rodriguez said Arroyo has already ordered the release of P20 million of the P100 million to start the implementation of Phase 1 of this project.

He said it was agreed during the recent closed-door meeting with President Arroyo, that the P20 million will be used for the putting up of these 48-inch culverts from the Lapasan National Highway at Ororama MegaCenter to the Limketkai area to the new Mindanao University of Science and Technology (MUST or formerly Don Mariano College) and towards the Cagayan de Oro River.

“This was prioritized in our plans because it is in this area where there is perennial flooding,” he said.

He added that the President has promised to release the additional amounts needed to complete the whole P100 million Comprehensive Drainage Project.

Jaraula for his part has already called on planning and engineering experts as early as July 2007 to draw up a realistic and comprehensive drainage development plan to address the flooding problems in low-lying areas of Cagayan de Oro.

He himself cited the importance of a careful and thorough study on the city’s waterways after noting that the existing drainage facilities, especially in flood-prone areas like portions of barangays Macasandig, Camaman-an, Lapasan and Carmen, overflow when heavy downpour occurs.

Mayor Jaraula said that the construction of additional main drainage system in the urban center and outlying barangays remains as one of the top priorities for funding from the city government’s 20% Development Fund this year.

The city chief executive sees the need for improvement of the city’s drainage network system in order to relieve and redirect the flow of water coming from the different creeks surrounding the poblacion area which hugely contributed to the overflowing of drainage and open canals.

Also, Jaraula hopes that the construction of an additional major drainage system will solve the perennial flooding on the city’s urban streets, particularly from Pabayo going to Corrales, barangay Camaman-an to Limketkai area and Villarin Street in barangay Carmen.

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