Months away from the onset of the rainy season, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority is already being urged to fast-track flood control measures in the country’s capital region. | GabrielLaluINQ
Atayde, however, also praised the MMDA for quickly responding to his privilege speech last November when he made the same observations and for promising to add more pumping stations in an area along Quezon City’s Araneta Avenue which was inundated during Ondoy.
The MMDA “should continue working on identifying more flooded areas so that they can put in place flood mitigation measures before the wet season starts and typhoons bring about extraordinary rainfall,” Atayde said.
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