FLOOD CONTROL DIVISION

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                    [Title] => City to resume dredging creeks
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The dredging and desilting of several creeks and waterways in Cebu City, particularly the one that passes through the city’s downtown area, will continue even if the City Council only approved more than P100 million as budget for flood control programs for this year.
                    [DatePublished] => 2012-01-21 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
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                    [AuthorID] => 1097538
                    [AuthorName] =>  Rene U. Borromeo
                    [SectionName] => Cebu News
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                    [Title] => Flooding "to be solved" by yearend
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If Cebu City engineers are to be believed, the constant flooding of streets in the city’s downtown area will be solved before the year ends.
                    [DatePublished] => 2011-06-25 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133272
                    [Focus] => 0
                    [AuthorID] => 1097538
                    [AuthorName] =>  Rene U. Borromeo
                    [SectionName] => Cebu News
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                    [Title] => Squatters encroaching on waterways blamed for Metro floods
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Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) officials yesterday said
squatter families, majority of them living in ramshackle shanties sitting on
top of and encroaching into Manila's esteros, are one of the major
causes of the metropolis' perennial floodings.

DPWH-National Capital Region director Salvador Pleyto declared, while
inspecting declogging operations in the city of Manila's major esteros
and drainage mains, that some 3,464 slum-dwelling families residing in
seven esteros are set to be relocated in Calauan, Laguna and Norzagaray,
Bulacan two wee
                    [DatePublished] => 2000-05-18 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorID] => 1097044
                    [AuthorName] => Jerry Botial
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City to resume dredging creeks

By Rene U. Borromeo | January 21, 2012 - 12:00am

The dredging and desilting of several creeks and waterways in Cebu City, particularly the one that passes through the city’s downtown area, will continue even if the City Council only approved more than P100...

Cebu News

Flooding "to be solved" by yearend

By Rene U. Borromeo | June 25, 2011 - 12:00am

If Cebu City engineers are to be believed, the constant flooding of streets in the city’s downtown area will be solved before the year ends.

Cebu News

Squatters encroaching on waterways blamed for Metro floods

By Jerry Botial | May 18, 2000 - 12:00am

Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) officials yesterday said squatter families, majority of them living in ramshackle shanties sitting on top of and encroaching into Manila's esteros, are one of the...

Headlines