Geo-hazard mapping completed

MANILA, Philippines - Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Ramon Paje yesterday announced that the government’s geo-hazard mapping project is now 100-percent complete.               

Paje said they were a month ahead of their target completion date of October.               

“The maps, care of the Mines and Geociences Bureau, are for the benefit of provinces and communities nationwide. Now that we have finished the mapping of areas prone or susceptible to various geologic hazards, the next step will be ‘densification’ of these geohazard maps,” he said.               

Paje said the densification phase will involve a more closer and specific view of sitios and barangays where steep slopes, bedrock and areas prone to soil erosion can be clearly evaluated. It will involve the production of detailed maps at a scale of 1:10,000.