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The Department of Public Works and Highways said on Saturday it was open to the idea of replicating the underground water impounding structure in Bonifacio Global City to address perennial flooding in Metro Manila, but finding a suitable location proved to be difficult.“Yes, the DPWH actually contemplated the best practice of BCDA in BGC,” DPWH Undersecretary Catalina Cabral said at the Saturday News Forum in Quezon City.
In the aftermath of tropical cyclone Carina and the enhanced Southwest Monsoon , several senators hit the implementation of flood control projects, which they said were allocated hundreds of billions in the annual national budget.Senate President Francis "Chiz" Escudero said that around P255 billion was allocated for the DPWH’s flood control projects in the P5.768-trillion national budget for 2024, which he tagged as disproportionately large compared to other critical sectors.
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