Road repair project of the Department of Public Works and HIghways (INQUIRER FILE PHOTO)
MANILA 鈥� Makati City Mayor Abigail Binay has called on the Department of聽Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to put up safety measures and mitigate聽flooding following reports of swamped project sites.
鈥淲e urge the DPWH to ensure that contractors of their projects in Makati are聽taking appropriate measures to prevent flooding in excavation sites and聽surrounding areas when it rains,鈥� Binay said in a statement on Saturday.
鈥淭hey should conduct regular dewatering of excavation sites and remove silt聽and residual construction materials that can cause flooding in the area,鈥澛爏he said.
Binay said DPWH contractors should also put up proper barricades and safety聽signs around the project sites to protect the public. The mayor took note of聽the photo published by the Philippine Daily Inquirer in August showing聽children playing in a flooded pipeline excavation along Chino Roces Avenue.
The DPWH is overseeing the construction of the main drainage along Chino聽Roces Avenue toward Pasig River cutting across the Barangays of Tejeros,聽Olympia and Sta. Cruz, and AP Reyes Avenue in Carmona.
鈥淲e had asked the concerned contractor to also provide a safety officer on聽site and install additional warning signs to discourage trespassers,鈥� Binay聽said.
The mayor asked barangay officials to monitor compliance to safety standards聽of DPWH projects, such as drainage improvement and rehabilitation works on聽A. Arnaiz Avenue in San Lorenzo; Ponte and Montojo Streets in Singkamas;聽Kakarong, Yague and Metropolitan Avenue in Sta. Cruz, and P. Medina Street
in Pio del Pilar.
For the guidance of the public, Binay said the DPWH should require聽contractors to put up signs indicating the project name and the implementing聽agency in charge of the project.
Other DPWH project sites include Primo de Rivera Street in the area of La聽Paz and Tejeros; St. Paul, Sampaloc and Mayapis Streets in San Antonio, and聽Pasong Tirad Street in Singkamas and La Paz.
The DPWH also has drainage improvement projects in several streets of聽Barangays Rizal, East Rembo and West Rembo.
Meanwhile, more than 80 metric tons of silt and debris have been hauled in聽declogging operations conducted by the Makati Department of Engineering and聽Public Works in the past three months.
The operation, covering more than 20,000 linear meters of drainage system in聽15 barangays, is part of the city鈥檚 efforts to prevent flooding during the聽rainy season. 听厂贵惭