Espino: Road repairs have high priority
LINGAYEN--Gov. Amado Espino Jr. has
directed the province's engineers to
prioritize the repair of roads and
construction of temporary bridges to
restore easy access to and around the
province.
"Not necessarily asphalting or
cementing them but making them passable
to commuters," Espino said.
Barangay Carmen
East residents: No warning signal!
IT came like a thief in the night.
This was how Fernando Escalona
described the rampaging water coming
from the volume of water released from
the San Roque Dam, devastated his
barangay Carmen East in Rosales town.
Escalona, a former
barangay chairman and now president of
the Senior Citizens Association, said it
was the worst-ever flooding that he
experienced.
Agat Bridge rehab
underway
ROSALES--Rehabilitation efforts are
underway for the Agat Bridge in Sison, a
vital link connecting Pangasinan to
Baguio and other provinces in the north.
Three of the bridge's spans
sank at the height of the flooding on
October 9. The Agat Bridge that connects
Sison, Pangasinan to Rosario, La Union
is a 500-meter long bridge with 15
spans.
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Dagupan hospitals lost major equipment to flood
NOW is not a good time to get sick and
be hospitalized.
Most of the hospitals in Dagupan
could not operate owing to the flooding in their
premises.
Of the 11 public and private
hospitals in the city, only one, the Pangasinan Medical
Center (PMC) on Nable Street in Barangay Pantal, was
spared from the flood.
Dagupan council to
question NPC on dam water release
AFTER the Senate, local legislative
bodies race to likewise question officials of the San
Roque Power Corporation (SRPC) and National Power
Corporation (NPC) on the release of huge volume of
excess water from the San Roque Dam at the height of
Typhoon “Pepeng”.
The Dagupan City Council has set its
own fact-finding investigation in aid of legislation on
the matter, and invited officials of the two agencies to
appear on Monday.
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