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CLARK FREEPORT: Presidential son Rep. Mikey Macapagal Arroyo (2nd
District) has intensified disaster mitigating efforts and measures
for the heavily flood-prone towns in his district.
In an exclusive television interview over Action
Central Luzon Special Edition with Sonny Lopez aired on Sunday on
PEP TV Channel 3, the lawmaker enumerated some of the most crucial
and well-funded engineering interventions being undertaken and to be
implemented in his district.
Arroyo disclosed for the first time that funding
for some of these projects has been released by her mother,
President Arroyo, which includes the upgrading of the Gapan-San
Fernando-Olongapo (GSO) road; upgrading and concreting of the Guagua
Central Business District; slope protection of Sapang Maragul and
desilting of the Porac Gumain River. These projects were designed to
solve flooding in the six towns in the district that were
perennially underwater.
The presidential son also said that he has been
pressing for the continuous dredging of the Guagua Pasac River
following President Arroyo’s instructions to further intensify
dredging of the major waterways.
He said that while Guagua town is almost flat
and is suitable to agricultural, industrial, or commercial
development, it is only a meter above sea level, traversed by
several creeks and tributaries during rainy days that collect and
convey floodwater to the Pampanga River and into the Manila Bay.
-- Mark Louie P. Roxas
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