Bulacan taps students in flashflood prevention

MALOLOS CITY – Students from different public high schools in eastern Bulacan are being tapped by the provincial government to mitigate flood disasters through the School Hydrological Information Network Project (Project Shine).

Felicisima Mungcal, head of the Provincial Disaster Management Office, said Project Shine aims to provide severe weather and flood bulletins and other related information whenever the situation warrants.

She said that real time information will allow the PDMO time to analyze data that will lead to fast issuance of flood advisories to the local government unit on flood prone areas in the province.

The advisories, the PDMO said, are crucial in saving properties and lives of people in low lying areas, including fish stocks of fishpond operators in the coastal areas of Bulacan.

In previous years, flood advisories issued by the PDMO helped save hundreds of millions in aqua­culture products in the towns of Hagonoy, Calum­pit and Paombong, all in western Bulacan, or the coastal area of the province. – Dino Balabo