Seafood Processing Plant saved from erosion
FEARS of seeing the Dagupan Seafood Processing Plant in Barangay Binloc being swept away by erosion have since been abated.
The plant is now safe from any future erosion that could be caused by rampaging waters of the Cayanga River every flood season since the completion of the retaining wall made possible through the initiative of Fourth District Congresswoman Manay Gina de Venecia.
De Venecia secured funding from the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) for the construction of the retaining wall in the western bank of the Cayanga River.
The retaining wall, costing P20 million, is a huge embankment comprising of stones aligned with meshed wire.
She said the retaining wall will be extended to sitio Pontok, Bonuan Binloc where some 10 houses and large agricultural lands already suffered erosion due to strong river currents during the rainy season.
De Venecia is seeking another P50 million from the DPWH in order to secure all of Sitio Pontok.
The chief of the National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center (NIFTDC), Dr. Westly Rosario, thanked Congresswoman de Venecia for initiating the project that eventually saved the facility.
He said if Congresswoman De Venecia had not acted swiftly, the seafood processing plant donated by the Korean government would have been gone in two years because of the continuous erosion of the Cayanga River bank.
It was Councilor Jeslito Seen who called for help of Congresswoman de Venecia upon learning that the seafood processing plant was being threatened with erosion.
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