Osmeña goes to barangay Sinsin to inspect landslide ‘danger zone’
Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña went to Sinsin yesterday afternoon to personally inspect the area threatened by landslide.
The mayor said he rented a plane to bring him and the geologist he hired to study the area and determine the scope of the danger zone.
“We’re bringing with us the geologist that’s a consultant for Atlas Mines who has already been to the site,” Osmeña said.
He said he decided to hire the consultant of Carmen Copper Corporation (then Atlas Consolidated Mining and Development Corporation) because of some aerial photographs of the area taken by the geologist in the earlier years. These were compared with the new photographs that they took.
“This is to give us a clearer idea of the scope and magnitude of the danger zone,” Osmeña said.
On May 2, a landslide hit sitio Nangka, barangay Sinsin following several days of downpour, destroying some portions of the road and endangering some families living in the area.
The Mines and Geo-Sciences Bureau, which conducted an inspection in the area, earlier discovered fractured rock formations in the said barangay that make it susceptible to landslide especially when the rain comes.
With this, the MGB recommended for the immediate relocation of the 41 families from sitio Nangka because of the risk of a landslide.
Last week, the Cebu City Disaster and Coordinating Council evacuated 20 of the 41 families who were identified by the MGB as living within the two-hectare radius danger zone because the soil in the site already loosened and cracks are already visible.
The city also cordoned the area to prevent people from entering and warned them of the danger that might happen.
The other day, Osmeña announced his plan to provide livelihood to the evacuated residents of sitio Nangka by hiring them to do the stockpiling of sandbags to be used in rehabilitating the area through “pakyaw” system.
He said the city fears that Sinsin might experience the tragedy that happened in St. Bernard,
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