Pasay City is stepping up efforts to keep its flood-control facilities operational as President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. inspected the Tripa de Gallina Pumping Station on Thursday, Aug. 20. Marcos, accompanied by Pasay Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano, Congressman Tony Calixto, and Metropolitan Manila...
While the government is eyeing the completion of upgrades and the construction of 13 pumping stations in Metro Manila, President Marcos admitted that these measures alone will not solve the perennial flooding problem in the metropolis. In an interview during his inspection of the Tripa de Gallina...
Wasting no time, Marikina City 2nd district Rep. Miro Quimbo has formally sought a congressional inquiry into the non-operation of the Tumana and Iwahig pumping stations during the onslaught of the Southwest Monsoon or Habagat. Quimbo filed House Resolution (HR) No. 1342 on Monday, Aug. 10, a day...
Marikina City 2nd district Rep. Miro Quimbo demanded on Sunday, Aug. 9 the immediate suspension of the contractor and operator of the Iwahig and Tumana pumping stations after he discovered firsthand that they were non-working and abandoned. An irate Quimbo directed his call to Department of Public...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) on Sunday afternoon, Aug. 9, said it will deploy a mobile pump to help ease flooding in Barangays Malanday and Tumana, Marikina City, after Mayor Maan Teodoro alerted the agency about the situation. Teodoro said flooding was reported around 2:15...
President Marcos inspected the rehabilitated Sunog Apog Pumping Station in Tondo, Manila, which had remained non-operational for six years despite being completed and fully paid for in 2020. The inspection on Monday, May 25, formed part of the administration’s broader flood mitigation efforts...
The "Sunog Apog" pumping station in Manila, which has been inactive for six years, is scheduled to reopen in May, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) said. DPWH Secretary Vince Dizon said the reopening forms part of the government’s intensified flood control drive under its...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has terminated the contract for the P250-million Quezon City pumping station, built by Discaya-owned St. Timothy Construction, after the unfinished structure worsened flooding in nearby communities. DPWH Secretary Vince Dizon said rhe execution...
Manila Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" Domagoso assured Manileños of flood mitigation efforts in the city with the repair of the derelict Sunog Apog Pumping Station now in full swing. Domagoso issued the statement on Tuesday, Dec. 16, following his inspection of the facility together with Public...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) vowed to restore the Paco Pumping Station in Manila floodgate within two weeks after it was damaged by Super Typhoon “Uwan,” a timeline officials say is unusually fast for a project of this scale. The permanent and reinforced floodgate,...
Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Vince Dizon on Tuesday, Sept. 30, ordered the installation of two additional temporary pumps at the Sunog Apog Pumping Station in Manila. The station, which has remained nonfunctional since 2020, has failed to ease flooding in nearby...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) on Friday, Sept. 26, directed the North Manila District Engineering Office to explain alleged irregularities at the Sunog Apog Pumping Station Flood Control Project. DPWH Secretary Vince Dizon issued the show-cause order after inspecting the site...
