Japanese media cites Ormoc's flood project the best in Phl

ORMOC CITY, Philippines  — A team from a Japanese television network visited this city to take footage of the flood mitigation project, funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency, which it said is the best of its kind in the Philippines.

"The documentary will be aired in Japan by October," Yuki Kitagawa told The Freeman about the purpose of the footage.

Kitagawa, of the JICA- Philippine Office, told Mayor Edward Codilla that the Japanese team had to do a documentary of the project for being "the best in the Philippines."

She cited the local government's efforts to maintain and monitor the dikes and other engineering structures, support facilities and programs that were built after the 1991 flashflood that killed thousands in the city.

Codilla, after thanking the Japanese for the "very ideal and important structure the city had." also mentioned Pagsangaan river, some six kilometers away from the existing Anilao River with the flood mitigation structures.

"This one too needs rehabilitation as the excess waters from the neighboring municipalities pass here which cause the flooding in low lying barangays of our city," said the mayor.  (FREEMAN)