Mandaue starts 3-day cleanup

CEBU, Philippines - Two truckloads of materials made of plastic were retrieved from the drainage system at M.C. Briones national highway in barangay Tipolo, Mandaue City the other day as the city began a three-day cleanup of waterways.

The city government focuses on strategic areas in the city in anticipation of the wet season.

All employees of the road maintenance section of the City Engineering Office led by Engineer Marivic Cabigas is initiating the cleaning.

Personnel from barangays Bakilid and Tipolo also assisted the Engineering department clean the drainage system in front of San Miguel Corporation.

Florentino Nimor, the focal person of the city drainage and anti-flood control, said the area is one of the 32 flood prone areas in the city.

Nimor lamented that the culverts in the M.C Briones highway is only 24 inches in diameter while the ones along A.S Fortuna Street and M. L. Quezon Street is 36 inches in diameter.

“We call on DPWH to replace the present culverts with the biggest with the biggest ones to sustain water from elevated areas,” Nimor said.

Today, the team will concentrate on Highway Seno to M.L Quezon Street.  (FREEMAN)