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Freeman Metro Cebu

Heavy rains flood Talisay barangays

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CEBU, Philippines - With Talisay City’s integrated drainage master plan yet to get realized, the heavy rains over the weekend ushered flooding in Barangays Lagtang and Poblacion anew.

At last 30 houses were flooded in Sitio Hollowblock in Barangay Lagtang while rainwater covered passageways in Barangay Poblacion, causing headache to residents.

City Councilor Celiapo Cabuenas, the former chairman of Barangay Lagtang, said sitio Hollowblock has served a catch fall of rainwater from almost all areas in the barangay because of absence of proper drainage. People wading through knee-deep floodwaters is a normal sight in the area during heavy rains, he said.

The city is scheduled to implement an integrated drainage master plan this first quarter and until the project gets realized, Cabuenas said suctioning the rainwater using a pump is their temporary solution.

Last Sunday, flooding in sitios Machacao and Seguerra Compound in Barangay Poblacion, a coastal barangay, was also knee-deep.

Barangay officials have provided foot paths for the residents to use, but the paths also easily got covered by flood waters.

The city government has assured that the flooding problem will be solved once the creek in Cansojong gets rehabilitated.

BARANGAY

BARANGAY LAGTANG

BARANGAY POBLACION

BARANGAYS LAGTANG AND POBLACION

CABUENAS

CANSOJONG

CITY COUNCILOR CELIAPO CABUENAS

LAST SUNDAY

MACHACAO AND SEGUERRA COMPOUND

SITIO HOLLOWBLOCK

WITH TALISAY CITY

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