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pangasinense ak

February 8th, 2011, 03:26 PM

Dredging of Dagupan rivers to start soon
Posted on February 5, 2011 - Filed Under Inside News, News | Leave a Comment

DREDGING activities to clean up Dagupan City’s rivers will start soon as work Task Force Kalikasan's work in neighboring Binmaley town is completed.

City Agriculturist Emma Molina said the city government is now just waiting for the dredging machine, owned by the provincial government which organized Task Force Kalikasan, to be moved to Dagupan.

The city government of Dagupan will shoulder the cost of the machine’s oil, maintenance and food for the members of the Task Force that will carry out the dredging work.

Molina, speaking over the radio program Pantontongan Tayo, said the rivers are now ready for dredging following the dismantling of fishing structures in the areas of Salapingao, Pugaro, Carael and Lucao

Meanwhile, the city’s own dredging machine, which is currently undergoing repair, will also be used in some areas, including Dawel, Tanap and Bonuan Gueset.

She added that the so-called “skylab” structures that are still visible will be before the dredging operations begin.

BETTER PRODUCTION

Molina said the city’s fish industry is expected to benefit from the dredging with improved production.

“Mas ombaleg so produksyon kasumpal to tan antokaman ya abalang natan et naalmo da met lamlamang,” she said.

Meanwhile, several fish pen operators have decried the demolition of their fish pens which is being implemented together with a one-year moratorium on fish pens imposed by the city government.

But Molina pointed out that the city’s river system has long been abused and polluted by the fish pen operators who have done nothing to alleviate the situation.

After the dredging, Molina said the fish industry can begin to engage in raising high value products like malaga and talakitok in addition to bangus, the city’s trademark product.

Dagupan produces about 12 tons of bangus everyday, which is about 50% of the market demand.

BACK TO FISH PONDS

Meanwhile, Molina also called on fish farmers to return to fishpond operations to give the city’s rivers time to “breathe”.

Most fishponds have been converted into “transition ponds” where bangus fingerlings are cultivated to a certain size and then transferred to the fish pens.

Many fishpond owners have since shifted to fish pen operations along the rivers because it is deemed cheaper. About P1 million is needed to develop a hectare of fishpond, while only about a small fish pen requires much smaller capital.

The city has about 1,000 hectares of fishponds, of which 80% are being targeted for revival, according to Molina.http://http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2011/02/05/dredging-of-dagupan-rivers-to-start-soon/

kalbongdad

February 9th, 2011, 10:00 PM

ito san to....tagal na ako dito sa pangasinan hindi ko pa nakikita ang mga ito....

yung light house tower...yung oval track at yung monument sa baba ng lighthouse tower....san mga yan...

pangasinense ak

February 10th, 2011, 12:41 PM

FOR 101 years now, the Cape Bolinao lighthouse stands proud atop Punta Piedra Point in Barangay Patar in Bolinao, Pangasinan, guiding ships and vessels cruising the international passage along the South China Sea. http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/ac251/okalim/bolinao/lighthousejpg1.jpg http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/ac251/okalim/bolinao/lighthousejpg2.jpg http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/ac251/okalim/bolinao/lighthouse.jpg http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/ac251/okalim/bolinao/lighthousejpg3.jpghttp://http://heritageconservation.wordpress.com/2006/07/27/cape-bolinao-lighthouse/

pangasinense ak

February 10th, 2011, 12:55 PM

ito san to....tagal na ako dito sa pangasinan hindi ko pa nakikita ang mga ito....

yung light house tower...yung oval track at yung monument sa baba ng lighthouse tower....san mga yan... gandang gabi po ...kabayan ..yang cape bolinao ay sa mismong bolinao po yan,,,,,,:),about sa oval track yan po ung Narsico ramos civic and sport center located po yan sa lingayen ..dyan po ginanap last 1995 palarong pambansa:)

pangasinense ak

February 10th, 2011, 12:56 PM

about naman dyan sa monument sa may bunoan dagupan city po yan....try ko post next day ang mga latest pics po ng mga yan ...

pangasinense ak

February 10th, 2011, 02:00 PM

http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/ac251/okalim/da7.jpg http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/ac251/okalim/da14.jpg

pangasinense ak

February 11th, 2011, 05:25 AM

Pangasinan now cashing in on tourism, Gov says

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, Feb. 9 (PNA) Philippine News — The province of Pangasinan is fast gaining reputation as a favorite tourist destination and venue for national events and convention.

This was disclosed Monday by Governor Amado Espino Jr. in his state of the province address (SOPA) before the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) on Monday.

Espino said this came from those who visited the province and enjoyed the “unique Pangasinan experience,” including the warm hospitality of the people.

Corollary to this is the fact that Pangasinan topped in the number of tourist arrivals last year among all provinces in the Ilocos Region.

Last year, the refurbished Sison Auditorium and the Narciso Ramos Sports and Cultural Center (NRSCC), in tandem with other hotels and support facilities around the capitol area, served as venue for regional and national events, he added.

Even the well-respected and internationally-acclaimed PETA theatre group has discovered Sison auditorium and had performed twice there before students, professionals and other theatre enthusiasts from all over the province.

The PETA has developed a fondness for the place and has threatened to keep coming back for more theatre performances, Espino revealed.

While such activities are concrete signs of Pangasinan’s growing reputation as a convention, cultural and sports center, the same events also “serve to highlight our inadequacies”, Espino said.

He said it has become obvious that “we need more and better conference facilities, billeting areas, food outlets, shops and other support services”.

He added that while they have encouraged the private sector to invest in these facilities, the province is doing its own share in filling the gaps by building facilities for tourists.

The provincial government is now building a 1,500 capacity Training Center just beside the Girl Scouts Building within the capitol grounds which is now almost complete and will soon become operational.

He said the provincial government, in partnership with the private sector, is about to start the construction of standard and family-type cottages within the compound of the province-owned Capitol Resort Hotel, to beef up its rooming capacity.

On the other hand, a newly completed golf driving range is the latest attraction in the Capitol Resort Hotel.

At the same time, he said the provincial capitol, undoubtedly the best in the whole country, continues to awe and attract tourists and visitors 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

He announced that the capitol beach area has now become a favorite family picnic and recreation destination, with its beach sheds, public toilets and baths, and wide, well-lighted, and secured playgrounds and activity area, all free of charge and open to the general public 24 hours a day on a first-come-first served basis.

The governor noted that there are now a growing number of local government units and private individuals who are now undertaking more tourism-related activities such as product exhibits, cultural shows, information drives and establishing their own product and tourist assistance center.

The private sector, the governor said, has responded to the call for better and globally competitive hotels and restaurants, tour services and even medical tourism services, as shown by the growing number of DOT-accredited private tourism establishments and support facilities from only five such facilities three years ago to 24 in 2010.

“Still, we cannot aggressively promote Pangasinan until we have adequate and quality facilities, amenities and services present in strategic areas around the province.

He mentioned that the provision of faster and more efficient means of transportation, such as a commercial airport, has also become more urgent. (PNA)
:):cheers:

kiretoce

February 11th, 2011, 05:37 AM

amigable

February 11th, 2011, 12:32 PM

pangasinense ak

February 11th, 2011, 12:51 PM

Not to rain on your parade, but I think we'd like to see more articles about and photos of roadways, bridges, airports/seaports happening in Pangasinan in this thread, not about malls and other buildings. There are other threads suited for those. This section of SSC is for "Transportation and Infrastructure" projects/developments/improvements and other related, relevant, and pertinent matters.

sir .....we know:), but i just only post those pictures just for our intro banner..as we see some pictures are related to our thread forum,about the malls and building...i think my co forumers amigable has point:).. btw thanks for your honestly corrections...ok we will look forward to search and post any latest updates about our infras and developments...:):)

majaba98

February 11th, 2011, 01:04 PM

http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/ac251/okalim/seaport_group-3.jpg

Has construction begun with the air- and seaport already ? Any available images ?

pangasinense ak

February 11th, 2011, 02:14 PM

More mega projects set for Pangasinan
Posted on December 30, 2009 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment

A GOOD BEGINNING FOR 2010

NOTWITHSTANDING the election next year and its consequent ban on public infrastructure projects for a certain period, several "mega projects" are set for implementation in Pangasinan.

National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Regional Director Leonardo Quitos, also vice chairman of the Regional Development Council (RDC), said the biggest of these projects is the P4.2 billion re-regulating pond, which is a major component of the P7-billion Agno River Integrated Irrigation Project (ARIIP).

The other mega projects are the Alaminos Regional Airport costing P467 million (See related story on page 1) and the Sual Port worth P385.5 million.

These three projects, plus the proposed Pangasinan Industrial Park between Alaminos City and Sual, are ready for implementation with their respective feasibility studies already completed, according to Quitos.

The ARIIP, once completed, will become one of the country's biggest irrigation projects with an expected service area of between 30,000 to 40,000 hectares of land.

Of the more than P7 million budget for ARIIP, more than one half would go to the construction of the re-regulating pond, which is 300 meters long and 300 meters wide and 12 meters in height.

The re-regulating pond, financed from a loan granted by China's Import and Export Bank, will harness the stored water of the San Roque Dam in San Manuel town, instead of just flowing downstream and emptying at the Lingayen Gulf.

The groundbreaking ceremony for the re-regulating pond was held in November last year.

For the Sual Port, Quitos said the opening of sealed bids has been scheduled this month.

The winning bidder will build Phase 1 of the port costing P80 million.

For the Pangasinan Industrial Park, Quitos said Phases I and II of the project are already being prepared for implementation.

Another project that will cross large areas of Pangasinan is the P14-billion Tarlac – La Union Expressway, which will be rolled out by a public-private sector partnership and set for completion in 2020.

This toll road will be linked to the Subic-Clark- Tarlac Expressway and is expected to cut the travel time from La Union to Manila by three hours.

Quitos also noted that a feasibility study for the Tri-City Ferry Project that will link Dagupan, Alaminos and San Fernando across the Lingayen Gulf was started last year.

2009 PROJECTS

In 2009, the national government poured a total of P1.47 billion worth of infrastructure projects in Pangasinan.

This includes P409 million for national roads and bridges, P256 million for flood control and drainage; P542 million for irrigation facilities; P62 million for school buildings; and P198 million for national and districts hospitals.

Quitos said these projects are considered "interventions" by the national government and do not include "interventions" undertaken by the Local Government Units.—LM
sorry for this news ,its too late . pero as of now lahat ng mga projects na yan ay ongoing na po ang mga contruction .:)

pangasinense ak

February 11th, 2011, 02:23 PM

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^^image from: Gali-La Alaminians' Fanpage in Facebook
link: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=175834845783542&set=t.1299645968&pid=420374&id=156309794402714
:)

majaba98

February 11th, 2011, 03:01 PM

:)

Besides only seeing a lot of vip´s and masses of other people nothing can be seen with any ongoing construction.....?

pangasinense ak

February 11th, 2011, 03:26 PM

Besides only seeing a lot of vip´s and masses of other people nothing can be seen with any ongoing construction.....?

ok.....i understand ,,but what i posted is only proof of the said project..so lets wait, maybe some pangasinense forumers will post it later ....btw .im trying to find some latest about this project but i honestly speaking dito po me sa korea kaay even me wala me update ...siguro po a pagbakasyon ko try ko po kuha ng pics...hope na may mga ibang forumers na panakapag update ....:):)

pangasinense ak

February 11th, 2011, 04:05 PM

State of the Province Address
Gov. Espino urges Pangasinenses to Sustain High Mark
and aim to make Pangasinan as the country’s best

Lingayen- - -Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. called on local leaders and the rest of his provincemates to be more vigorous in making the paradigm of “shared responsibility” as one of the basic guideposts in governance to ensure better service for the people and elevate Pangasinan as the best province in the country.

In his State-of-the-Province Address (SOPA) last Monday at the Capitol Plaza, the governor said that if the people of Pangasinan will put their acts together, “Pangasinan will soon become the best place to invest, work, live and raise a family, and will eventually emerge as the number one province in the country.”

Speaking before some 7,000 people who aplauded him 35 times in his 47 minutes report, Gov. Espino highlighted the gains made in 2010, defining the year as a “period of historic transition” which, he said, now serves as the hallmark of the provincial government’s continuing firm resolve for transformation.

“We could not have gone this, we could not have excelled in the various fields of endeavor where we are now the acknowledged leader in Region 1, without your constant support and active participation in our various development program,” the governor stressed.

Recalling how April 5, 1580 was finally discovered and established as “Agew Na Pangasinan” (Founding Day of Pangasinan), the governor said “with determined efforts, we succeeded in establishing our historical roots and identity after 430 long years.”

The governor bared that the inclusion of Pangasinan culture and history in the basic curriculum for elementary and high school is now underway to properly preserve the province’s rich heritage.

The first celebration of Agew na Pangasinan, he said, served as a “rallying event for thousands of Pangasinenses who came as early as 6 o’clock in the morning and stayed up to the wee hours to take part in that historic moment.”

“The event was highlighted by the formal opening of the newly refurbished Sison Auditorium which, after years of being consigned to oblivion and suffering the consequent effect of progressive deterioration, was resurrected as a meticulously executed work of art as it stands today, truly worthy of its historical value as the center of arts and culture of the province,” the governor noted.

For the unprecedented feat, the governor hailed the Research and Study Committee headed by former Vice Gov. Gonzalo Duque, who is also the president of Lyceum Northwestern University.

To further enrich the province’s cultural heritage, the Pangasinan Historical and Cultural Commission was created with the governor appointing Duque as chairman of the special body.

During the first three-and-half years of the Espino administration, the country’s first dialysis center with 14 dialysis stations operated by a local government unit was constructed and opened to the public.

Also, all the 14 vprovincial government’s hospital facilities were rehabilitated and improved to provide better treatment to local constituents.

In a parallel move, the provincial capitol compound underwent major face-lifting to showcase the provincial government’s tourism promotion program. Pangasinan now leads other provinces in the Ilocos region in terms of tourist arrivals.

The Governor stressed all other accomplishments under his administration’s 10-point development agenda are “products of unorthodox, out-of the-box approaches for radical reforms in the structure, management and operations of the provincial government.”

Thus, he said, Pangasinan since 2008 is a consistent “grandslam winner in all regional competitions” and has won national awards and citations, as well, such as Best Project Implementer in Coastal Resources Management; Best Poverty-Reduction Program Implementer; Best Regional Development Agenda Implementer; Best LGU Millenium Development Goals Project Implementer; Hall of Fame Awardee in the celebration of National Statistics Month; Regional Overall Champion for DSWD Youth Encampment; and Top PESO Regional Performer.

On infrastructure, the governor reported that negotiations have been finalized with a group of Korean investors which will undertake the construction of the Pangasinan Aqua City project on a build-operate-transfer (BOT) scheme.

According to the province’s Chief Executive, the industrial and tourism complex to be developed by Home Ship Vehicle Amphi Port Company of South Korea, is envisioned to include berthing facilities for amphibious planes, beach front residences, a golf course, an export processing area, fish farm and a monorail transport system.A component of the Korean investment is a solar-and-wind power generating equipment to serve as independent power source for the entire facility.

To produce premium grade rice at a fast rate of 2.5 metri tons per hour, the 200-million modern rice processing center in Sta. Barbara funded by a grant from the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has been completed and is expected to start operation within the next few weeks. (PIO)

http://www.pangasinan.gov.ph/news1.htm

pangasinense ak

February 11th, 2011, 04:18 PM

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ISwitch

February 12th, 2011, 04:54 AM

di ba may proposed na project na magroon ng sanga yung tarlac-pangasinan-la union expressway papuntang west pangasinan? ano na developments dito?

nayki

February 12th, 2011, 05:46 AM

http://i905.photobucket.com/albums/ac251/okalim/sm-300x295.jpg

totoo bang soon na ito? whats the latest update with the reclassification of land that SM owned in dagupan?

pangasinense ak

February 14th, 2011, 11:38 AM

di ba may proposed na project na magroon ng sanga yung tarlac-pangasinan-la union expressway papuntang west pangasinan? ano na developments dito?

parang wala pa ming balita sa project na yan.....pero kung mayroon nga siguro yan yung mag coconect ng alaminos airport going to tplex sakali..:):)

pangasinense ak

February 14th, 2011, 11:40 AM

totoo bang soon na ito? whats the latest update with the reclassification of land that SM owned in dagupan?

about sa sm ..base sa report po ni sir phoenecians sa main thread ay nasa main office na ng DENR sa QC..so malamang ....on going process na siguro yun ...ASAP...:)

tyronne

February 17th, 2011, 04:17 AM

Ginagawa na pala yung airport sa Alaminos he he! Good!

kenjikun07

February 17th, 2011, 01:23 PM

Koreans to build Aquatic City in Pangasinan

By Danny O Sagun
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, Feb. 12 (PIA)--Negotiations have been finalized with a group of Korean investors for the construction of the Pangasinan Aqua City project in this capital town under the build-operate-transfer (BOT) scheme.
Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. bared this project in his State-of-the-Province Address (SOPA) last Monday at the Capitol Plaza.
He said that the industrial and tourism complex to be developed by Home Ship Vehicle Amphi Port Company of South Korea was envisioned to include berthing facilities for amphibious planes, beach front residences, a golf course, an export processing area, fish farm and a monorail transport system.
The complex will be powered by a solar-and-wind power generating equipment, which facility is a component of the entire Korean investment. “We have been assured by our Korean investors that the 50 stepping jetties designed for power generation are now being assembled in Korea and scheduled for shipment to Pangasinan within the first quarter of the year,” he said.

Phase 1, which will cost $20 million, will commence as soon as the stepping jetties are installed and expected to be completed in a year, he said.
He said that the Koreans were very meticulous with technical details and very careful with their funds. But after about five months of meetings and deliberations, the provincial government and the investors finally agreed to pursue the project.
Speaking before a big crowd at the Capitol grounds, Espino called on the local leaders and his provincemates to be more vigorous in pursuing “shared responsibility” in governance to ensure better service for the people and elevate Pangasinan as the best province in the country, pointing out that if the people of the province will put their acts together, “Pangasinan will soon become the best place to invest, work, live and raise a family, and will eventually emerge as the number one province in the country.”

Espino highlighted the gains of his administration in 2010, defining the year as a “period of historic transition” which, he said, now serves as the hallmark of the provincial government’s continuing firm resolve for transformation. “We could not have gone this, we could not have excelled in the various fields of endeavor where we are now the acknowledged leader in Region 1, without your constant support and active participation in our various development programs,” the governor stressed.

Recalling how April 5, 1580 was finally discovered and established as “Agew Na Pangasinan” (Founding Day of Pangasinan), the governor said “with determined efforts, we succeeded in establishing our historical roots and identity after 430 long years.”
The governor said inclusion of Pangasinan culture and history in the basic curriculum for elementary and high school is now underway to properly preserve the province’s rich heritage.

The governor hailed the Research and Study Committee headed by former Vice Gov. Gonzalo Duque, for accomplishing that task to determine the foundation date. Duque will also head the Pangasinan Historical and Cultural Commission to write the history of the province.

Pangasinan since 2008 has been winner in all regional competitions. It also won national awards and citations -Best Project Implementer in Coastal Resources Management, Best Poverty-Reduction Program Implementer, Best Regional Development Agenda Implementer, Best LGU Millenium Development Goals Project Implementer, Hall of Fame Awardee in the celebration of National Statistics Month, Regional Overall Champion for DSWD Youth Encampment, and Top PESO Regional Performer.
To produce premium grade rice at a fast rate of 2.5 metric tons per hour, the P200-million modern rice processing center in Sta. Barbara funded by a grant from the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) is expected to start operation within the next few weeks.

The provincial capitol compound underwent major face-lifting to showcase the provincial government’s tourism promotion program. Pangasinan now leads other provinces in the Ilocos region in terms of tourist arrivals. (PIO/PIA Pangasinan/danny)

http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=16754

pangasinense ak

February 17th, 2011, 01:31 PM

Ginagawa na pala yung airport sa Alaminos he he! Good!

masantos ya labi kabayan tyroone.....one of pioneer in SSC pangasinan thread..musta po kayo kabayan...sana makavisit kayo ulit sa main thread natin ...dami na kaming iniwanan nyo ....dati kayo kayo lang po nila alln .nayki,tracy, etc.:):):)opo ongoing na po ung alaminos airport ....sana makapg post pa si aliguas ngb latest update at photos this coming vacation..:):)

pangasinense ak

February 17th, 2011, 01:36 PM

ano kaya itsura ng aquatic city na yan...sana may aquarium sa ilalim.dagdag attraction sa capitol compound heheh..monorail transport system wow..:cheers:kauna-unahan outside MM.:):)

christian joe

February 17th, 2011, 03:33 PM

grabe to see is to believe pala ang ilang tao na sumusuaybay dito.. kaya pala pinapapost mo ung photo ng alaminos airport..

tyronne

February 18th, 2011, 03:46 AM

masantos ya labi kabayan tyroone.....one of pioneer in SSC pangasinan thread..musta po kayo kabayan...sana makavisit kayo ulit sa main thread natin ...dami na kaming iniwanan nyo ....dati kayo kayo lang po nila alln .nayki,tracy, etc.:):):)opo ongoing na po ung alaminos airport ....sana makapg post pa si aliguas ngb latest update at photos this coming vacation..:):)

hello kabayan! hindi ko naman kayo iniwan ha ha! medyo di lang active magpost pero nagbabasa pa rin ako he he!

salamat naman sa mga updates nyo. umuuwi ako every weekend sa villasis pero hanggang doon lang ako. hindi ko na nga matandaan kung kelan yung last time na napunta ako ng Dagupan eh. high school pa yata ako non ha ha ha! andami nang bago don sigurado.:)

pangasinense ak

February 18th, 2011, 01:11 PM

grabe to see is to believe pala ang ilang tao na sumusuaybay dito.. kaya pala pinapapost mo ung photo ng alaminos airport..

uhmmm talagang ganyan joe ....to see it to believe hehhe,kaya kailangan ng pics,,,alam mo na..kahit saang thread kapag walang pics ..:nuts::nuts::nuts:kaya kung mayroon kang pics dyan ilabas mo na hehehe...update mo kami lahat...go joe:banana::banana:

pangasinense ak

February 18th, 2011, 01:14 PM

hello kabayan! hindi ko naman kayo iniwan ha ha! medyo di lang active magpost pero nagbabasa pa rin ako he he!

salamat naman sa mga updates nyo. umuuwi ako every weekend sa villasis pero hanggang doon lang ako. hindi ko na nga matandaan kung kelan yung last time na napunta ako ng Dagupan eh. high school pa yata ako non ha ha ha! andami nang bago don sigurado.:)
pasalamt po tayo sa mga panga forumers po gaya ni aliguas,joe,saintm at marami pang iba...dami na po talagang nabago sa syudad kahit ako eh parang gusto kong umuwi ng umuwi sa pangasinan kapag nasa maynila ako ...try nyo po ulit pumunta ng dagupan ..ibang iba na po....daming bago..

nayki

February 18th, 2011, 04:47 PM

about sa sm ..base sa report po ni sir phoenecians sa main thread ay nasa main office na ng DENR sa QC..so malamang ....on going process na siguro yun ...ASAP...:)

Yey, pero di pa din narereclassify iyong lot ng SM sa Dagupan eh...

pangasinense ak

February 20th, 2011, 03:51 AM

Yey, pero di pa din narereclassify iyong lot ng SM sa Dagupan eh...

ano kaya matutuloy kaya yan sm na yan...hindi kaya next year na aprobahan yan,,bc ata ng syudad ngayun kasi daming inaayos gaya ng budget at bangus festival preperation:)

phoenicians

February 20th, 2011, 09:57 AM

Yey, pero di pa din narereclassify iyong lot ng SM sa Dagupan eh...

:) to answer your question..it's not yet re classify due to ongoing problems aorund the area, pero tinatabunan pa yun ibang fishponds area dun sa nabiling lote.mr.duque one of the pioneer businessman around dagupan owns a lot of sizable lands in Tambac..Sm gave around 30M to an influential businessman for the partition of land to be affected by SM.:)

phoenicians

February 20th, 2011, 10:00 AM

ano kaya matutuloy kaya yan sm na yan...hindi kaya next year na aprobahan yan,,bc ata ng syudad ngayun kasi daming inaayos gaya ng budget at bangus festival preperation:)

:)Medyo matatagalan nga kabaleyan dahil nga sa dami ng problema ng mga politiko dito sa syudad ng dagupan:ohno:..pero siguro late this year na mag ground breaking :ohno:

amigable

February 20th, 2011, 01:31 PM

:)Medyo matatagalan nga kabaleyan dahil nga sa dami ng problema ng mga politiko dito sa syudad ng dagupan:ohno:..pero siguro late this year na mag ground breaking :ohno:

sa tingin mo phoenicians, ang sp aaprubahan yan? eh kung sa dinig ko din this year ground breaking nyan... sana matuloy na.... hay..... :ohno:

pangasinense ak

February 21st, 2011, 05:21 AM

siguro naman hindi matatapos itong taon na ito ,may good news na ...about sa sm na yan...malamang hindi susuko ang SMprime sa planong iyan....alam nila na malaki ang kikitain nila sa SM na yan:):):)

kalbongdad

February 21st, 2011, 07:29 AM

phoenicians

February 21st, 2011, 10:11 AM

sa tingin mo phoenicians, ang sp aaprubahan yan? eh kung sa dinig ko din this year ground breaking nyan... sana matuloy na.... hay..... :ohno:

:)Oo malamang aprubahan yan:lol:..eh kung naglagay ng grease money sa mga SP eh wala na magawa si Madam belen:nuts::nuts:..alam mo bago sila magapatayo ng mga esthablishment sa bawat syudad dito sa Pinas eh lalo mga BIG TIME like SM at ROBINSONS eh naglalagay na mga yan (big time owner of a esthablishmets) ng Entrance Fee sa City hall or Municipal goverment just to put up their malls:)..kaya kahit ma delay yan proposed na SM mall dito eh ..tuloy din yan ..lalot OK na OK ke Mayor BSL:)...:banana:

phoenicians

February 21st, 2011, 10:14 AM

siguro naman hindi matatapos itong taon na ito ,may good news na ...about sa sm na yan...malamang hindi susuko ang SMprime sa planong iyan....alam nila na malaki ang kikitain nila sa SM na yan:):):)

:) oo naman kabaleyan...tama ka hindi matatapos ang taon na ito na hinde ipapatayo yan (SM)..laot aprub ke Mayor BSL..:banana:

pangasinense ak

February 21st, 2011, 01:05 PM

hay....sana totoo na to.....para hindi na mahirap mag byahe....lalo pa kami na weekly ang uwi sa manila......at least ilang minuto lang nasa manila k n....

sir..tuloy tuloy na po yan....pati ung seaport ng sual ....ongoing na rin po....san po kayo sa manila ..?:)

pangasinense ak

February 21st, 2011, 01:06 PM

:) oo naman kabaleyan...tama ka hindi matatapos ang taon na ito na hinde ipapatayo yan (SM)..laot aprub ke Mayor BSL..:banana:

oiy ayus...aprub na pala kay BSL...kay VM na lang .....:banana::banana:

kalbongdad

February 22nd, 2011, 03:31 AM

sir..tuloy tuloy na po yan....pati ung seaport ng sual ....ongoing na rin po....san po kayo sa manila ..?:)

qc part....this is a welcome development.....:)

phoenicians

February 22nd, 2011, 10:15 AM

oiy ayus...aprub na pala kay BSL...kay VM na lang .....:banana::banana:

:) oo ok na ke mayor talaga..ang pagdadaanan ng butas ng karayom talaga sa SP headed by madam tabachingching Belen:lol:..at yun mga YES mam na mga konsehal...:lol:

pangasinense ak

February 22nd, 2011, 02:08 PM

qc part....this is a welcome development.....:)

yup...halos projects and developments na po ngayun ang pumapasok sa kulag natin....:banana::banana::banana:

pangasinense ak

February 22nd, 2011, 02:10 PM

qc part....this is a welcome development.....:)

:) oo ok na ke mayor talaga..ang pagdadaanan ng butas ng karayom talaga sa SP headed by madam tabachingching Belen:lol:..at yun mga YES mam na mga konsehal...:lol:

grabe hindi ba nahihiya yan mga konsehales na yan kung bat naging ganyan ang papel nila sa SP..tsk tsk tsk...magkano ba ang lagay ni VM sa mga opissyales na mga yan..GC ba or CASH..?

phoenicians

February 23rd, 2011, 10:27 AM

grabe hindi ba nahihiya yan mga konsehales na yan kung bat naging ganyan ang papel nila sa SP..tsk tsk tsk...magkano ba ang lagay ni VM sa mga opissyales na mga yan..GC ba or CASH..?

haha:lol: kaaro..pareho GC at CASH:lol::baaa:

pangasinense ak

February 24th, 2011, 12:43 PM

haha:lol: kaaro..pareho GC at CASH:lol::baaa:

di kaya lifetime membership card pa:lol::lol::lol:

phoenicians

February 25th, 2011, 10:40 AM

di kaya lifetime membership card pa:lol::lol::lol:

:lol::lol::lol://syanga pala/ok na yun DENR compliance ng SM Dagupan at derecho na sa Office ng Dept.Of Agrarian Reform....Next week ipapasa na ni Madm Belen at mga chuchu Konsehal yun Budget Ng Dagupan..:ohno:..tapos yun pinaka aabangan Hearing ng SM Dagupan:)

amigable

February 25th, 2011, 01:32 PM

:lol::lol::lol://syanga pala/ok na yun DENR compliance ng SM Dagupan at derecho na sa Office ng Dept.Of Agrarian Reform....Next week ipapasa na ni Madm Belen at mga chuchu Konsehal yun Budget Ng Dagupan..:ohno:..tapos yun pinaka aabangan Hearing ng SM Dagupan:)

phoenicians.... sabi pakuha number mo. o kahit fb lang. para mamessage kita kung kilan exact hearing ng about sa SM City Dagupan.... pls... msge moko dito.... private.

amigable

February 25th, 2011, 01:56 PM

:lol::lol::lol://syanga pala/ok na yun DENR compliance ng SM Dagupan at derecho na sa Office ng Dept.Of Agrarian Reform....Next week ipapasa na ni Madm Belen at mga chuchu Konsehal yun Budget Ng Dagupan..:ohno:..tapos yun pinaka aabangan Hearing ng SM Dagupan:)

di it means approve na sa DENR? Update mo kami ha. lalo na ako. hahahaha...

pangasinense ak

February 26th, 2011, 08:37 AM

:lol::lol::lol://syanga pala/ok na yun DENR compliance ng SM Dagupan at derecho na sa Office ng Dept.Of Agrarian Reform....Next week ipapasa na ni Madm Belen at mga chuchu Konsehal yun Budget Ng Dagupan..:ohno:..tapos yun pinaka aabangan Hearing ng SM Dagupan:)

oiyy malapit na ....konting talk talk talk at push push push ok na ..:cheers:

phoenicians

February 28th, 2011, 11:02 AM

:di it means approve na sa DENR? Update mo kami ha. lalo na ako. hahahaha...

hehe..oo update kiita unang una kabaleyan same with max:)..pag lapit na sya :)

pangasinense ak

February 28th, 2011, 04:01 PM

alam nyo base sa post ni domnet bagong Panga forumers ang daming construction na naggaanap dyan sa syudad...alam nyo na po ang ibig kong sabihin tnxxxx madami...hehehe...

pangasinense ak

February 28th, 2011, 04:59 PM

NORTHERN PLAINS MANSIONS (bayambang pangasinan)
http://images04.olx.com.ph/ui/1/88/74/13928474_1.jpg
http://www.northernplainscorp.com/mapthumb.jpg
First Class Features and Amenities

Clubhouse Extraordinaire:

Basketball/ Badminton Court
Multi-Purpose Hall
Functions and Aesthetic Enhanced:

Wide Roadways
Underground electric, commnication, water and cable TV facilities
24-hr security, gated entrance, and high perimeter fence with stylish design accents
Elegant street lamps
Full Access Privelege:

Adjacent to the Palm Core Orchard Resort
2-minute drive to the town proper
California-Mediterranean Theme Inspired Architectural Theme

6.2 hectare development with lot araes ranging from 300 to 500 square meters
Mediterranean designed Entrance Gate with Guardhouse and Landscape
Idylic Community Enjoyment:

Parks & Playground
Paved walksthis articles maybe appropriate in this thread...new CBD of bayamabng coming soon:banana::banana:

spearhead

March 1st, 2011, 01:31 PM

hay....sana totoo na to.....para hindi na mahirap mag byahe....lalo pa kami na weekly ang uwi sa manila......at least ilang minuto lang nasa manila k n....

Taga pangasinan ka rin pala kuya? :)

Any news about mangatarem kung meron nang mga bagong development dun or puro mangahan parin?

spearhead

March 1st, 2011, 01:46 PM

egOKkry7hvg

Wow thank you so much for this video, indeed a lot of developments now happening around that province. Excellent work! :cheers:

koreanboy

March 4th, 2011, 12:41 PM

Wow thank you so much for this video, indeed a lot of developments now happening around that province. Excellent work! :cheers:
maunlad na rin ang mangatarem ngayun kasi 1st class na sya..tapos may plano ang CSI na magtayo ng mall doon ...lai nga ng pinagbago ng probinsya natin ngayun...di gaya dati ,,at patuloy pa rin na umaangat ...congrats sa atin lahat:cheers:

agay_met_la_tan

March 6th, 2011, 03:17 AM

grabe hindi ba nahihiya yan mga konsehales na yan kung bat naging ganyan ang papel nila sa SP..tsk tsk tsk...magkano ba ang lagay ni VM sa mga opissyales na mga yan..GC ba or CASH..?

ano na balita sa sm dagupan?

koreanboy

March 8th, 2011, 05:10 AM

mukhang malinaw na at base sa post ni phoenecians ay oking ok na kay MBSL.....sana tuloy tuloy na hehehe

pi_malejana

March 9th, 2011, 11:15 PM

nice, i hope this materializes soon!!:okay::cheer:

A road network to link Zambales and Pangasinan to be constructed
by Rebecca Grace S. David (PIA) (http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=21378)

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, March 9 (PIA) -- Another important road project that will open Zambales to the north is the construction of the Guisguis- Mangatarem Road. It will link Sta Cruz, Zambales to Mangatarem,Pangasinan.

The 55-kilometer road will start from the junction of the Olongapo- Bugallon road and the Sta Cruz-Guisguis road up to the Pangasinan boundary.

The project route will pass through Guisguis road, an all-weather road, and the road opening starts at barangay Guisguis up to the Pangasinan boundary.

The 35 kilometers portion is in Zambales while the remaining 20 kilometers belongs to Pangasinan.

Since Sta Cruz is identified as one of those to be established as ecozones, the provision of a road network that will open the area to Central Pangasinan for trade and other economic activities is to be constructed.

According to Zambales District Engineer Hercules Manglicmot, total amount needed to complete the project is P700 million.

The road has been widened and is now passable. But being a rough road, Manglicmot does not recommend its use by the public until the safety features have been installed.

It is expected that in the next five years, the project will be fully completed. ( RGSD PIA 3 Pampanga).

koreanboy

March 10th, 2011, 04:58 AM

^^ sana itagos ang road na yan 'til bayambang para magkaroon na rin ng short cut going to olongapo or subic...tuloy tuloy na ng dagupan..di ba may byahing dagupan -olongapo daily?

pi_malejana

March 10th, 2011, 06:19 AM

^^ sana itagos ang road na yan 'til bayambang para magkaroon na rin ng short cut going to olongapo or subic...tuloy tuloy na ng dagupan..di ba may byahing dagupan -olongapo daily?

yes, Victory Liner AFAIK...:)
less time, tsaka mas marami na ring options

agay_met_la_tan

March 10th, 2011, 09:19 AM

yes, Victory Liner AFAIK...:)
less time, tsaka mas marami na ring options
kamusta naman ang trade exchange ng dalawang siudad(Dagupan and Olongapo)? marami rin yatang taga Pangasinan na nagtatrabho dyan eh...so magnda nga yan...lalo na kung gawing expressway na katulad ng SCTEX...wala traffic at maganda tanawin

koreanboy

March 10th, 2011, 03:22 PM

^^ sa pagkakaalam ko maraming pangasinense aang nagtratrabaho dyan sa hanjin shipbuilding...@pi anong mga bayan ang dadaanan ng byahing dagupan -olongapo po?

pi_malejana

March 11th, 2011, 01:01 AM

agay_met_la_tan

March 11th, 2011, 01:28 PM

ang alam ko mayron kase tuwing sumasakay ako dun may nakikita akong biyahend olongapo

koreanboy

March 15th, 2011, 04:30 PM

^^ i double checked on VLI's website and it seems that i was wrong--they don't have trips from Dagupan to Olongapo.. ang pinakamalapit ung sa Sta. Cruz, Zambales... check so ibang sources...:)

in the meatime, eto yung map nung mga ruta ng Victory Liner: :)
http://www.victoryliner.com/storage/pdf_maps/VLI_Route_Map_ALL.pdf i c byahing santa cruz
pero tama si agay met la tan...may byahing olongapo kung di rin me nagkakkamali ordinary ung bus na yun na byahng olongapo po
ang alam ko mayron kase tuwing sumasakay ako dun may nakikita akong biyahend olongapo

:)

kalbongdad

March 16th, 2011, 12:13 PM

Taga pangasinan ka rin pala kuya? :)

Any news about mangatarem kung meron nang mga bagong development dun or puro mangahan parin?

nope sad to sya am not from pangasinan....work assignment lang kaya naiikot ko ang pangasinan....from bayambang, mangtarem, san carlos, calasiao, alaminos, urdaneta, manaoag, sual, alaminos, bolinao....and all the adjacent municipalities and provinces.....nice to be travelling all over the place....although nde pa ako nakakapaligo sa 100 islands... :(

jcruze057

March 18th, 2011, 02:16 AM

ano na nang kaya sa aqua city na may monorail? nai-convert na yata sa 26 M ford suv yung ads campaign nila

suri_maw2020

March 24th, 2011, 02:35 PM

Meron ngang biyahe ng Dagupan Olongapo via San Fernando aircon bus morning time lang.

Then karamihan biyahe na ng VLI, non aircon trip Dagupan to Sta Cruz Zambales...susss layo pag doon ang way mo...naranasan ko na yan..... Kaya di ko advise ang route na yan kung pupunta ng Olongapo...unless mag adventure ka.....carry lang siya...pagdating ng sta Cruz wait ka ulit ng trip going Olongapo....

^^ i double checked on VLI's website and it seems that i was wrong--they don't have trips from Dagupan to Olongapo.. ang pinakamalapit ung sa Sta. Cruz, Zambales... check so ibang sources...:)

in the meatime, eto yung map nung mga ruta ng Victory Liner: :)
http://www.victoryliner.com/storage/pdf_maps/VLI_Route_Map_ALL.pdf

ang alam ko mayron kase tuwing sumasakay ako dun may nakikita akong biyahend olongapo

koreanboy

March 26th, 2011, 04:34 AM

^^ oiyyy,long time no post...mukhang akakupit ka lamet ah...musta aggala mankelaw:nuts::nuts:syak si ummm tan si ummm..pics siren :banana:

jcruze057

May 13th, 2011, 04:44 PM

jcruze057

May 13th, 2011, 04:46 PM

saintm

May 14th, 2011, 04:14 PM

Pangasinan mayors bare inter-province ferry system plan

by Alex Romeo R. Fernandez
DAGUPAN CITY, May 12 (PIA) --- Two Pangasinan mayors have bared their plans to establish a ferry system that will provide water transportation between the province and La Union.
The system is intended to shorten travel time between major cities and municipalities in Region I along the Lingayen Gulf, with possible ports in here and in Alaminos, and in Agoo town and San Fernando City in La Union.
Alaminos Mayor Hernani Braganza said the ferry system will facilitate economic development in his city as it will encourage more tourists and investors to visit his place especially the famous Hundred Islands.
Alaminos City is practically isolated due to distance, preventing potential visitors have to travel circuitous routes to reach the place.
“I hope Alaminos, and the province as well, will open it for commercial traffic. That will hopefully become a reality if we can put up major infrastructures. It is the only way that Alaminos can attain economic development and to help the province.” he said during the Meet the Press forum of the Pangasinan Tri-Media Association (PATRIMA) Wednesday at the Jollibee in Lucao.
“Once completed it will draw more investments for the province and create more opportunities for the people,” he added.
Braganza cited the cities of Cebu and Davao as example of cities which have reached substantial economic progress by having basic infrastructures.
He explained that “this is the main reason why we asked the national government to build the first commercial airport in the city of Alaminos.”
Braganza complimented, Dagupan City Mayor Benjamin Lim “for having the same vision.”
Lim presented to the media the design of a catamaran that will be used as the main ferrying seacraft. “The two-hulled water vehicle can seat 102 passengers, four medium-sized vehicles and six tons of cargoes,” he said.
Lim noted that the Manaoag Shrine is the only easily-accessed place in Pangasinan. Other tourist destinations in the province will be more accessible once the ferry system is completed, he said.
He said that a port will be constructed near the historic Franklin Bridge in barangay Pantal tor the purpose. He disclosed that he, Braganza and San Fernando Mayor Pablo Ortega will meet soon to discuss the plan.
Lim also discussed his idea of the possible construction of a west-bound highway connecting to the Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway (TPLEX). “Ang dapat pag-usapan ng ating provincial government, congressmen ay kung paano iku-connect ‘yong TPLEX to the west,” he said.
Lim sees the TPLEX as progenitor of economic development in areas traversed by it. “We have to catch up with the development,” he said.
On the ferry system, Braganza said, “I promise my constituents that this dream will come true before the end of my term.”(ANL/ARRF-PIA 1 Pangasinan)

saintm

May 18th, 2011, 06:39 PM

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5108/5726200609_4cc7190eb5_b.jpg

TPLEX RCPC at Balincanaway Near SCTEX
:cheers:

saintm

May 19th, 2011, 07:00 PM

Pangasinan hosts national local planners confab

by Danny O. Sagun
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, May 16 (PIA) --- Pangasinan is now host to the 22nd national convention of the League of Local Planning and Development Coordinators of the Philippines on May 16 to 20 where some 600 local planning officers coming from the different regions of the country are expected to attend the convention at the newly-built Pangasinan Training and Development Center (PTDC) here.
Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr., who expressed elation for hosting the event, said that the undertaking will serve not only as a tool for social change and development but also as a challenge for people to become catalysts for a green and healthy environment which is depicted in the theme, “A Pro-Poor Total Development in a Green Environment: A Strategy Towards Socio-Economic Progress.”
Opening program follows at the Sison Auditorium after the registration today from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Topics for the convention proper include the Philippine Development Plan 2011-2016, Land Government Project Monitoring System Updates and Seal of Good Housekeeping, Updates on Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board and Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) Policies, Mainstreaming Tourism in CLUP with Disaster Risk Reduction Management System (DDRM), DRRM, Cyclonic Wind Power for Local Government Units (LGU), Sustainable Energy, Human Development in a Green Community, Solid Waste Management, LGU Financing on Income Generating Projects, Managing the Water Resources for DRRM and Pomology:Tropical Fruit Trees for Carbon Sequestration.
The participants will be treated to a fellowship night on Tuesday at the Capitol beachfront and to a provincial tour on Wednesday.
A tree-planting activity is likewise scheduled on Thursday in support to Presidential Proclamation No. 125 declaring 2011 as “National Year of the Forests.” (JCR/DOS-PIO/PIA Pangasinan)

saintm

June 22nd, 2011, 09:07 PM

DOTC official confirms 2 mega projects in Pangasinan to push through (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&nid=2&rid=354072)

DAGUPAN CITY, June 21 (PNA) - A top official of the Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) has confirmed that the construction of an international shipping port and the Pangasinan Airport in western Pangasinan will definitely push through.

DOTC Undersecretary Dante M. Velasco told newsmen here Monday that funds for these mega projects under the Aquino administration are already available and expressed confidence that construction will begin soon in the seaport in Sual town.

On the other hand, construction of the Pangasinan Airport already started last year, initially with the acquisition of lands that will form part of the facility's runway.

Velasco, a native of Dagupan City, was interviewed by newsmen after he addressed the 64th charter anniversary celebration of Dagupan City called "Agew na Dagupan" at the Dagupan People's Astrodome.

The International Seaport is set to be constructed in what is known as Baquioen Bay within the Sual Cove, a natural harbor for ocean-going vessels west of the Lingayen Gulf.

Groundbreaking for the seaport project was already made during the first quarter of last year in a ceremony spearheaded by Goverwnor Amado Espino Jr., officials of the DOTC, Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) and the Sual municipal government.

Velasco said he already talked with PPA officials about the project and was informed that high officials of PPA already came to Pangasinan to inform Governor Espino that the project will push through.

He said the seaport project was already started late last year but it was discontinued due to right-of-way problem which he expects to be resolved soon.

Meanwhile, First District Board Member Teofilo Humilde Jr., in a separate interview Tuesday, said that the construction of the runway of the proposed Pangasinan Airport being pushed by Alaminos City Mayor Hernani Braganza is now going on using fresh funds released by President Benigno Aquino III.

The new funds boosted the funding released by the Department of Budget and Management in early part of last year which was used for land acquisition for the proposed runway.

Humilde, who was vice mayor of Alaminos City when the Pangasinan Airport was started, expects that construction of the project will be intensified with the assumption of former Senator Mar Roxas as new secretary of DOTC on July 1.

Velasco said that once the two projects are realized, it would boost the potentials of Pangasinan as a major investment hub and destination of domestic and foreign tourists in the Philippines and Asia. (PNA)

asinger_la

June 26th, 2011, 01:37 AM

bakit yung fish port sa sual pa? ayaw talaga nila i-develop ang central pangasinan, Dagupan in particular, kase andun ang market, or talagang espesyal yan para sa western pangasinan? putting those huge infrastructures are huge gambles unlike if they put in dagupan city or nearby towns.

jcruze057

June 26th, 2011, 02:37 AM

oo nga, napansin ko nga rin yan. sa Pangasinan lang talaga hiwa-hiwalay ang mga infrastructure tulad ng airport, fish port at shipping port , kung icompara sa subic/olongapo, metro manila, ilo-ilo, cebu, davao at zamboanga...nasa iisang location or magkakakalapit at located sa kanilang major urban centers. di ka kaya dahil western pangasinan is ilokano speaking? dapat magkaroon din ang Pangasinan speaking region ng Airport, shipping port at sea port, pwede rin kaseng maging major tourist attraction yun at will enable central Pangasinan to develop its shore lines

dblog

June 26th, 2011, 03:03 AM

haay naku, kung sa Dagupan yan gagawin, baka bizarre na naman ang design dahil andyan yung Fernandez/Lim clans, baka kamag-anak nila na call center agents na instantly turned into architects//engineers ang magiging in-charge sa mga projects na ganyan

ISwitch

June 26th, 2011, 05:28 AM

bakit nga ba mahilig sila magpatayo ng major infrastructure in the middle of nowhere? baka scam na naman yan

agay_met_la_tan

June 26th, 2011, 06:29 AM

eh ang may kasalanan dyan yung mga may-ari ng mga hotels at ibang businesses sa Dagupan, wala silang voice sa mga usaping ganyan, malamang dahil puro mga chinese at medyo di pa highly developed ang knowledge ng mga Pangasinanse sa mga ganyan another factor ay siyempre kung Ilocano speaking yung in-charge siyempre ilalagay sa lugar na puro ilocano ang nakatira, pero ang sa akin lang, baka umpisa na yan ng malawakang corruption ng bagong regime

bcl4me

July 6th, 2011, 02:28 AM

malakas nga ang western pangasinan, biruin mo, konti business establishments at rural areas pa pero nadadaig pa amng ga highly populous but town of central pangasinan where the major market and businesses are located...mukhang kaduda-duda nga transactioon na yan, malaki siguro makukuha ni bugok dyan

Pythos

July 7th, 2011, 09:21 AM

Base sa backread ko may itatayong parang Industrial/Economic zone sa Alaminos at Sual.

So tama lang siguro yang mga ports na yan na itayo sa mga lugar na yan.

saintm

July 7th, 2011, 10:39 PM

4 key projects being built, 2 others endorsed in Pangasinan (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&nid=2&rid=357421)
By Leonardo V. Micua

DAGUPAN CITY, July 6 (PNA) — The Regional Development Council (RDC) has announced here that four key infrastructure projects are now ongoing in Pangasinan which, when completed, can help sustain the growth and momentum not only of the province but also the whole of Region 1.

These were bared by Dr. Leonardo Quitos, regional director of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) who is also RDC vice chairman, in a briefing before members of the Pangasinan Press Club (PPC) here on July 6.

All these projects, said Quitos, can help sustain the economy of the region, as Pangasinan is a major contributor to the growth of the Ilocos, given that its population and arable land, comprise more than 50 percent of the region's total.

Leading these important major projects are the P14-billion Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Toll Expressway Project (TPLUTEP) which is now 34.33 percent complete, being built parallel to the existing Manila north road under the build-operate–transfer scheme with the Department of Public Works and Highways as the implementing agency.

To be connected to the Manila North Expressway and to the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway, the project will cut travel time from Manila and Subic to Baguio City and San Fernando City, La Union passing through Pangasinan when completed in 2030.

Another big project is the Sual Seaport being constructed within the Sual Cove in Sual town whose construction had been ongoing since May this year.

The technical plan for the project was already approved in March 2011 and construction immediately started in May 2011 using the initial P80.25 million released by the Department of Transportation and Communication.

Being implemented by the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA), the project needs a budget of P400 to P500 million in order to be completed.

Also ongoing, according to Quitos, is the Pangasinan Airport in Alaminos under the DOTC’s Air Transportation Office (ATO) where land acquisition was already started using the initial P37 million released by DOTC and an additional P75 million this year.

The project, said Director Quitos, has a total project cost of P4 billion and will be a big boon to tourists and businessmen from other regions visiting Pangasinan.

On the other hand, the Agno River Integrated Irrigation Project (ARIIP), which seeks to irrigate 34,000 hectares of land in 17 towns of eastern and central Pangasinan, including a few towns in northern Tarlac and northern Nueva Ecija, is now P54 percent complete.

Including its re-regulating pond component, which is being built with P4 billion from China’s Import and Export Bank, the project’s total cost is P11.3 billion and is expected to be completed in December 2013.

Quitos admitted that RDC endorsed Phase III of the Lower Agno River Flood Control Project to the Office of Development Assistance (ODA) but the project is yet to be implemented.

It was learned that Japanese Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) withdrew as a funding source for Phase III after funding Phase I and II of the project.

RDC is however looking at either Spain, Finland, South Korea or China as possible funding source for Phase III.

Reiterating the importance of Phase III of the project, Governor Amado Espino Jr. said floods in Pangasinan will still continue unless the segment of the Agno River from Bayambang, Rosales, Sta. Maria, Asingan and San Manuel, dredged and improved.

Phase III needs a P3.4-billion funding, said Quitos. Phases I and II of the project were already completed, both of which were funded by JBIC, through the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

Quitos said that another very important project is the Allied River Improvement Project, proposed by then Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. to finally stop the floods in central Pangasinan caused by the perennial overflowing of the Pantal-Sinocalan River from Sta. Barbara to Dagupan; and the Cayanga River in San Fabian.

He said that although RDC already endorsed the project, external funding source is yet to be tapped. (PNA)

saintm

July 9th, 2011, 04:31 PM

http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/326118/pangasinan-leads-infra-projects
Pangasinan leads in infra projects

By LIEZLE BASA IÑIGO
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DAGUPAN CITY, Philippines — Pangasinan ranks first among the provinces in Region 1 on the number of ongoing infrastructure projects.

National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Region 1 Director Leonardo N. Quitos Jr. told reporters Wednesday that eight projects in the province are under different stages of development.

Three of the projects are inter-town highways that will connect to other provinces, while the rest are water resources projects involving the construction of irrigation systems and flood control structures.

Among the transportation projects are the 84.5 km, four-lane Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Toll Expressway Project (TPLUTE), costing P14.6 billion; the Roll On-Roll Off (Ro-Ro) ramp in Sual Port (P80.3 million) and the Alaminos Airport Development Project (P3.6 billion).

The water resources projects are the Agno River Integrated Irrigation Project (ARIIP), costing P11.25 billion; Lower Agno River Irrigation System Rehabilitation Project (P858 million); Agno Flood Control Project, Phase II, (P3.49 billion); Agno Flood Control Project, Phase III, (P3.48 billion) and Allied Rivers Improvement Project (ARIP), (P5.24 billion).

According to Quiros, the projects were sometimes delayed because of legal issues, like when they reach town boundaries.

Second District Congressman Leopoldo Bataoil promised Quiros he will sponsor a bill that will resolve such issues.

The government agencies implementing the projects are the Department of Transportation and Communications (DoTC), National Irrigation Administration (NIA), and the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH).

saintm

July 13th, 2011, 05:39 PM

35 mega projects endorsed by RDC in Region 1 for next six years (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&nid=2&rid=358878)
By Leonardo V. Micua

DAGUPAN CITY, July 13 (PNA) — Thirty-five proposed programs and projects in Region 1 were endorsed by the Regional Development Council (RDC) for strategic investment programming for the next six years starting this year.

National Economic and Development (NEDA) Regional Director Leonardo Quitos, RDC vice chairman, said these projects, targeted to cost several billions of pesos, are along the lines of agribusiness, trade, industry and tourism, social development and infrastructure development.

All these programs and projects were proposed to be built in Pangasinan, La Union, Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte provinces.

The agribusiness projects include the development of integrated laboratory support facility, a mini-fish processing plant, Carabao Industry Development Program, Department of Agriculture-Department of Agrarian Reform-Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DA-DAR-DENR) Convergence Program, Deep Sea Commercial Fishing, and Establishment/Maintenance of Multi-Species Hatcheries.

For trade, industry and tourism, RDC endorsed the establishment of Commodity Exchange Center thru E-marketing; Product Branding and Certification, Tri-City Tourism Project for San Fernandez, Alaminos and Dagupan cities; Economic Trade and Development Zone; improvement of the Hundred Islands National Park and establishment of Sual Industrial Estate Development.

There were only two social development projects that were endorsed. These are the establishment of the Cancer Institute and Hospice Care at the Mariano Marcos Memorial Hospital and Medical Center in Ilocos Norte and the establishment of the Pangasinan Heart and Lung Center at the Region 1 Medical Center in Dagupan City.

The rest of the proposed projects are on infrastructure development.

These are the Upland Access Road Development Project, Candon City By-pass Road, Aluling Bridge along Tagudin-Cervantes road which is ongoing; Pangasinan-Nueva Vizcaya Road, Western Urdaneta By-p[ass Road, Currimao Port Development, Salomague Port Development, Restoration of Vigan Heritage Port;

San Fernando Port Improvement, Laoag International Port Upgrading, Vigan Airport Development, Alaminos Airport Development Project, which is also ongoing; Lingayen Airport Development, 85 Mega-watt Burgos Windpower in Ilocos Norte; Water Harvesting Program, repair, rehab, restoration and preventive maintenance of existing National Irrigation Systems and Communal Irrigation Systems, National Irrigation Sector Rehab and Improvement Project, Amburayan River Flood Control Project, Allied Rivers Improvement Project, Inter-regional Watersheds Management Program, Agno River Basin Management Program and Minerals Development Project. (PNA)

saintm

July 24th, 2011, 05:51 PM

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Urdaneta road widening, pedestrian overpass to ease traffic in the city (http://urdanetacity.blogspot.com/2011/07/urdaneta-road-widening-pedestrian.html?spref=fb)

by Miriam P. Aquino

SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union July 12 (PIA) -- Pedestrian users and commuters coming in and out of Urdaneta City in Pangasinan will soon feel the benefits of the widening of the Manila North Road (MNR) and construction of the pedestrian overpass in this city, this was stated recently by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) I regional director Veniedo O. Reyes.

DPWH1 Public Relations Officer II Esper Tinaza said that the construction of the pedestrian overpass is part of the project on the improvement/widening of the MNR in the city which includes the construction of the Portland Cement Concrete Pavement (PCCP) sidewalk with curve gutter, lateral drainage with manhole and the road right of way acquisition.

In the previous years, Urdaneta is common to commuters to and from the Northern Luzon passing through the national highway, as “an area of so much traffic congestion.”

Pedestrians and road users alike experienced the risk of possible road accidents which also paved the way for the construction of the pedestrian overpass that crosses from the Urdaneta 168 Mall (formerly the public market area) to the other side of the highway.

During his recent actual site inspection, Reyes assured that the project which is seen to be completed come September 2011, will benefit motorists passing through the national highway (MNR). Travel time to the north coming from Manila and vice-versa will be reduced because traffic will be decongested.

“Malaki ang tulong nito sa pagluwag ng traffic at mailalayo naman sa anumang aksidente ang mga taong tatawid dahil ligtas sila sa dadaanan nilang pedestrian overpass”, Reyes added.

The project started on March 25, 2010 and is implemented by the DPWH Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office (P3DEO) in Tumana, Rosales,Pangasinan and is expected to be completed on September 06, 2011.

Director Reyes was assisted by Regional Maintenance Chief, Cornelio G. Amita and P3DEO, OIC, District Engineer Emannuel W. Diaz in this inspection activities, Tinaza reported. (JCR/MPA-PIA 1 L a Union with reports from EVT/DPWH

saintm

July 27th, 2011, 10:48 PM

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History of Dagupan City Water District

saintm

August 6th, 2011, 02:41 PM

Officials test road connecting Zambales, Pangasinan

Saturday, August 6, 2011 (http://www.sunstar.com.ph/breaking-news/2011/08/06/officials-test-road-connecting-zambales-pangasinan-171365)

ZAMBALES and Pangasinan officials tested a new access road together with 4 wheel drive clubs and motocross racing team that will connect the two provinces anew.

The new road, which is still muddy and can only be maneuvered by 4x4 vehicles and motocross bikes, was personally tested by Zambales Governor Germogenes Ebdane Jr. and Pangasinan seconnd district Representative Leopoldo Bataoil.

The new road according to Ebdane would be a 54-kilometer mountainside, which he added would be an adventure for commuters because of the new route, sceneries and the lush forest adventure.

The new road will start in Barangay Muelang, Mangatarem, Pangasinan all the way up to Guisguis, Sta Cruz and will end in Sinabacan, Candelaria, Zambales. (Anthony Bayarong/Sunnex)

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saintm

August 8th, 2011, 03:55 PM

PIA Press Release
Monday, August 08, 2011

Tagalog news: DPWH1 tinututukan ang Banela bridge project

ni Miriam P. Aquno

SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union, Agosto 8 (PIA) (http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r01&id=47700) -- Binibigyang prayoridad ng Department of Public Works and Highways 1 (DPWH 1) upang matapos na ang proyektong tulay ng Banela sa Umingan, Pangasinan, ayon kay DPWH 1 Direktor Veniedo O. Reyes.

Ayon kay Reyes, ang tulay ng Banela na itinatayo sa ibabaw ng Banela River sa naturang lugar ay nagdudugtong sa mga bayan ng San Quintin, at Umingan sa lalawigan ng Pangasinan.

Minamadali ang konstruksiyon ng naturang tulay na papalit sa luma at sirang Reinforced Concrete Deck Girder (RCDG) bridge na ipinagawa pa noon ng gobyernong lokal ng probinsiya.

Kabilang sa Phase I ng proyektong Banela bridge na pinondohan sa kontratang nagkakahalaga ng P 144,251,560.94 at natapos noong Marso 17, 2010 ay ang lahat ng mga pundasyon (substructures), malalaking beam (girders), diaphragms, partial slope protection at embankment sa pambungad o approach ‘A’ nito.

Nagpalabas na rin sa ilalim ng DPWH Infrastructure Program (Phase II) ngayong taon ng halagang P70 milyon upang matapos ang tulay kabilang na ang pambungad o approaches, maging ang river dike protection nito.

Sa kaniyang pagi-inspeksiyon sa nabanggit na lugar kung saan kasama niya ang DPWH Regional Maintenance Chief na si Cornelio G. Amita, Project Engineer Jimmy Reyes at Resident Engineer Alfredo Cayabyab, nagbigay din ng kaseguruhan si Reyes na isusulong nila ang pagpapabago o pagtataas ng kalidad ng mga tulay sa bansa at sisiguruhin din ang tibay ng mga ito.

Tinuran ni DPWH 1 Regional Information Officer Esperanza Tinaza na ang Construction Division umano ng kanilang ahensiya ang humahawak ngayon ng implementasyon ng naturang proyekto.

Dinagdag pa ni Tinaza na magsisilbing napakalaking tulong kapag natapos ang naturang Banela Bridge Project sa kadahilanang ito ay pakikinabangan hindi lamang ng mga taga Silangang bahagi ng Pangasinan kundi maging sa kalapit na probinsiya ng Nueva Ecija. (ANL/MPA-PIA 1 La Union with reports from DPWH1)

saintm

August 8th, 2011, 05:41 PM

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TPLEX - Carmen Interchange (http://www.flickr.com/photos/demosthenes/6001259056/in/photostream/)

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Phase 1 2012 or early 2013!!!

saintm

August 11th, 2011, 10:44 PM

Panpapagawa na airport ed siyudad na Alaminos mansasansya ni (http://www.bomboradyo.com/news/regional-news/pangasinan/71360-panpapagawa-na-airport-ed-siyudad-na-alaminos-mansasansya-ni)

Thursday, 11 August 2011 20:03
Pangasinan News

DAGUPAN CITY -Mansasansya ni so panpapagawa na airport ed siyudad na Alaminos tan wandiad 15 to 20 % labangat so asumpal da ya so pangagawa da dia na aaasahan da na nasumpal ed taon na 2013.

Onong ed kinde 1st District Board Member na si Teofilo Humilde, walay kabayagan so panpapagawa ed say airport ta mairap so pangawa na pundasyon tonya.

Agto ni ya naibaga no sampiga so eksaktong gastos, balet say kuwan da et omabot et hanggan P300-M no ipila so bili na pansaliw na dalin ed abitlan patikyaban.

Aaasahan met nen Boardmember Humilde na labayen na totoo so patekyabab piyan makatulong ed say probinsya na undakel so saray turista tan investor na unla dia piyan onalegwas so luyag na Pangasinan.

Aya ni labat so onaan na commercial airport ed luyag.

saintm

August 12th, 2011, 07:08 PM

De Venecia eyes modern fish port in Dagupan City
Posted by admin2 on Aug 12th, 2011

By PNA and U.S. News Agency / Asian (http://www.usnewslasvegas.com/provincial/de-venecia-eyes-modern-fish-port-in-dagupan-city/)
Pangasinan Fourth District Representative Gina de Venecia is pushing for the establishment of a modern fish port in Dagupan City.

She bared her project when she came to Dagupan in a joint undertaking with Pfizer, a leading international pharmaceutical company, that vaccinated 500 children from Barangay Pantal, Dagupan City against the deadly pneumoccocal disease (PD).

“Most iconic of Dagupan is its title as the Bangus Capital of the World,” she said, “but despite the strength of its fishing industry and after 64 years as a city, Dagupan still lacks a modern fish port to support this major industry.”
Admitting she filed a bill in Congress seeking the establishment of the fish port, De Venecia said a modern fish port would boost Dagupan’s fishing industry.

She said while a modern fish processing facility was opened in Dagupan last year, the city also faced difficulties in bringing the fish harvest to the plant.
“This calls for a dire need to establish a fish port within the city, where the fish processing facility is located, she said.

The congresswoman said: “Moreover, with the presence of both the fish port and fish processing facility, the export of local fish to international markets will soon be greater than before.”

De Venecia expects that the construction of the fish port will improve the income of fisher folks and fish processors in the city, thereby ensuring the sufficiency of fish supply in the whole province.

Under her proposed act, the Department of Agriculture, through the Philippine Fisheries Development Authority shall formulate the rules and regulation necessary to effectively implement the project.

De Venecia successfully defended her proposal at the hearing of the Committee on Aquaculture and Fisheries at the House of Representatives last week.

Once passed, the fish port is expected to benefit bangus growers and other fishpen operators in Dagupan and the whole of Pangasinan.

saintm

August 12th, 2011, 09:15 PM

Banela Bridge completion on top of DPWH-1 priority

MANILA, Aug. 12 (PNA) (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&nid=2&rid=365803)- The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Region 1 Office is prioritizing the completion of the Banela Bridge Project in Umingan, Pangasinan.

According to DPWH-1 Director Veniedo O. Reyes, the bridge which is being constructed over Banela River, connects the towns of San Quintin and Umingan.

Director Reyes recently inspected the project together with DPWH Regional Maintenance chief Cornelio G. Amita, project engineer Jimmy Reyes and resident engineer Alfredo Cayabyab to see the progress of works for the project which when completed, will not only serve the eastern province of Pangasinan but also the nearby Nueva Ecija province.

Construction of the new bridge will replace the old dilapidated reinforced concrete deck girder bridge, which was constructed by the provincial government of Pangasinan.

The project is in line with the DPWH target set by the leadership of Secretary Rogelio L. Singson over the period of six years (2011-2016) to make permanent all temporary bridges along national roads.

“We will work on national roads and bridges upgrading in terms of quality and safety to improve the overall performance of Philippine infrastructure,” said Secretary Singson.

Phase 1 of the Banela bridge, with the contract amount of P144.251 million includes all substructures, girders, diaphragms, partial slope protection and embankment at approach ‘A’, was completed on March 17, 2010.

Under CY 2011 DPWH Infrastructure Program, P70 million was released for the implementation of Phase 2 to complete the bridge including the approaches and river dike protection.

The project is implemented by the Construction Division of the DPWH-Region 1 Office. (PNA)
LAP/FFC/PR/mec

saintm

August 13th, 2011, 03:17 PM

Luyag na Pangasinan, asinger lan ideklara na eco-tourism zone

Saturday, 13 August 2011 09:24
Pangasinan News

DAGUPAN CITY-- (http://www.bomboradyo.com/news/regional-news/pangasinan/71593-luyag-na-pangasinan-asinger-lan-ideklara-na-eco-tourism-zone)Manisya so luyag na Pangasinan na asinger lan nai-diklara bilang sakey na eco-tourism o economic zone kasumpalan na limma at nai-evaluate na duwaran opisyal na Philippine Economic Zone Authority say arom na proyekto ed say eco-tourism zone diad luyag.

Ed panbisita diad luyag nen Mr.Elmer San Pascual say Group Manager na Public Relation Group tan Mr. Emmanuel Cortero say Manager ng Eco Zone Development Department na PEZA ed nila da tan ninengneng so gagawaen dan proyekto ed eco tourism diad luyag parikular so Sual Industrial estate, Pangasinan eco tourism zone ng Lingayen, Agro export processing esate ng Villasis, Eastern Pangasinan agro industrial estate ng Sta. Maria, tan say International seaport constuction na kasalukuyan gagawaen ed baley na Sual.

Onong ed kinde Butch Velasco say Provincial information officer na pangasinan, akanengneng so duwar na opisyal na saray magagangana na development diad abitlan saray proyekto tan kuanto na akatutok natan so pambansan pamahalaan diad luyag na Pangasinan ed eco tourism zone no enet sakay labat yan gagawaen piyan naideklara bilang eco tourism so luyag.

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tyronne

August 15th, 2011, 01:07 AM

^^May Agro export processing estate pala sa Villasis. Di ko man lang alam ha ha!

saintm

August 15th, 2011, 03:47 PM

‘Transform tourist spots into world class attractions’ -Gov Espino to Architects
by Amado Totaan Espino Jr on Sunday, August 7, 2011 at 9:31pm

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Select dept heads, staff and representatives of SP members, BM Von Mark Mendoza, VG Ferdie Calimlim listen as Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) officials brief Pangasinan Officials. Positioning Pangasinan as the preferred investment destination.

LINGAYEN–- (http://saguntostar.com/2011/08/pangasinan-positions-itself-as-investment-destination/)Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. has urged members of the United Architects of the Philippines Pangasinan-Dagupan Chapter (UAP-PDC) to take an active role in developing the cultural and economic potentials of Pangasinan.

Speaking before the UAP members at their 37th induction and turn-over ceremonies last July 29 at the Star Plaza Hotel in Dagupan City, Gov. Espino asked the UAP-PDC to build livable communities for Pangasinan’s fast growing population, transform tourist spots into world-class attractions and develop the province’s economic zones and industrial estates into attractive investment locations and generators of worthwhile economic activities and employment opportunities for Pangasinenses.

Gov. Espino said the provincial government has remained focused on exerting best efforts to deliver the best possible service to the people as he said that “we are inspired to keep going because there are organizations such as the UAP that are ready and willing to go with us all the way.”

“Excellence is crucial factor for survival in this global village,” the governor said citing with pride the various achievements gained by the provincial government that made Pangasinan an acknowledged regional leader in the local governance following the receipt of awards as top winner in the recently concluded competitions launched by the Regional Development Council where Pangasinan emerged winner in 7 out of categories in local governance.

Towards this end, Gov. Espino thanked the architects for their loyalty and continuing support to the common vision of making Pangasinan as the “best place to invest, work, live and raise a family” even as he stressed the important role of the UAP in the collective effort to pursue the present administration’s proclaimed mission to make Pangasinan number one.

“It is such a relief that in the midst of the overwhelming demands for coping with this fast-paced, highly competitive world, you have managed to make room for service as the basic orientation of architecture,” the governor said.

As this developed, Gov. Espino reiterated his call to the UAP-PDC to continue to find creative ways and means to help transform and maintain Pangasinan as the best place to invest, work, live, and raise a family.

“Indeed, everyone including the UAP, has a unique role to play and can contribute significantly in this tedious task to develop and realize our collective dreams and aspirations for our province,” the governor said.

As he congratulated the newly elected officers of the UAP led by Joel F. Santos as new chapter president, Gov. Espino left the architects with a challenge as he said, “just remember that if you do not become the best performing chapter of the UAP, you will be guilty of dragging the entire province down with you. For if you do not become number one, then Pangasinan will not become number one.” (PIO/ Angeline D. Villanueva)

SOURCE: Facebook page of Gov. Espino (http://saguntostar.com/2011/08/pangasinan-positions-itself-as-investment-destination/)

saintm

August 16th, 2011, 11:21 AM

PetroEnergy posts first-half profit of $1.3 M
By: Amy R. Remo
Philippine Daily Inquirer
12:55 pm | Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
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MANILA, Philippines (http://www.google.com.sg/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCYQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fbusiness.inquirer.net%2F13213%2Fpetroenergy-posts-first-half-profit-of-1-3-m&ei=WjZKTsyIE4v0mAXNoPiECA&usg=AFQjCNEel0iReFPBFg49S1AK4rmmqZ0G1g)—Publicly listed PetroEnergy Resources Inc. posted a 63-percent surge in its net income to $1.345 million in the first semester due largely to higher oil production and prices during the period.
In a report to the Philippine Stock Exchange, PetroEnergy explained that it registered total oil revenues of $6.688 million, up by 39.6 percent to $4.791 million year-on-year.
This increase can be attributed to the higher number of barrels produced (4.1 million barrels) at an average price of $111.15 per barrel as of end-June this year. In the first half of 2010, the company registered a production of 3.576 million barrels at an average price of $75.04 a barrel, the company explained.
PetroEnergy’s main source of revenues would be the oil fields in Gabon, West Africa, particularly Etame oil field, through its share in the oil production. The company currently holds a 2.525-percent working interest in the Etame Marin Production Sharing Contract.
Vaalco Inc., operator of this particular project, and the members of the consortium have already identified new wells that can be drilled in order to further increase production at the Etame oil field.
Operating expenses increased by 17.73 percent in the first half to $2.655 million due to higher royalty payments, brought about by higher production prices. General and administrative expenses almost doubled this year due to expenses incurred for the wind and geothermal projects.
Apart from its stake in the West Africa oil field, PetroEnergy also has interests in several projects. It currently holds renewable energy service contracts for its proposed wind farm projects in Sual, Pangasinan, and Nabas, Aklan, and for a planned 20-megawatt geothermal power plant on Mt. Makiling.
Through a vehicle company called Maibarara Geothermal Inc., PetroEnergy and its partners Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Development Corp. and PNOC Renewables Corp. expect the P2.8-billion integrated steamfield and power plant to start commercial operations by late 2013.
PetroEnergy also has interests in four petroleum service contracts namely SC 6A (Octon Malajon block) and SC 14C2 (West Linapacan), both in Northwest Palawan; SC 47 in offshore Mindoro; and SC 51 in the East Visayan Sea.

saintm

August 17th, 2011, 05:38 PM

Tourists flock to Hundred Islands even during rainy days

ALAMINOS CITY, Aug. 16 (PNA) (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&nid=6&rid=366703) -- Tourists continue to flock to the Hundred Islands in droves notwithstanding the rainy season.

This was disclosed by Alaminos City Administrator Wilmer Panabang who estimated the daily arrival in the province's number tourist spot to 200 and more than 1,000 during weekends.

In fact, he said, the number of tourist arrivals in the Hundred Islands improved this year as compared to last year and in 2008 and 2009 which were marked by down trend in tourism due to the effects on the industry wrought by Tyhoons "Ondoy" and "Pepeng".

Thus, even during the rainy season, tourists--mostly domestic, are arriving in droves, he added.

The number of foreign tourists arriving has not increased though but there was no downtrend in their number too. Most of the foreign tourists are Koreans and Japanese and a few Americans and Europeans.

Panabang said that more tourists will come to the Hundred Islands if they can cut their travel time in going to Alaminos from Manila which is five hours to only 40 minutes by means of air travel.

This can only be realized, he said, if the Pangasinan Airport, which is now undergoing construction, will soon be completed.

The project, initiated by Alaminos City Mayor Hernani Braganza, has the backing of President Benigno S. Aquino III and Transportation and Communications Secretary Mar Roxas.

To date, land acquisition and earth movement are now ongoing at the proposed Pangasinan Airport using initial P200 million released by DOTC.

Panabang said of the amount, P50 million formed the first trance and the second trance amounted to P150 million. All these were used to acquire 80 hectares of land that will form part of the airport's runway of 150 hectares.

"Hopefully, the third trance of another P60 million will be released in the next few weeks, good for another 60 hectares of land to be acquired," Panabang said.

If completed, the Pangasinan airport will first serve domestic tourists and later expanded to an international airport. With a 150-hectare runway, excluding its access roads, the Pangasinan Airport will be bigger than the Laoag International Airport which is only 70 hectares.

He said a foreign investor is also keen on building an 18-hole golf course in Alaminos to complement the airport project. (PNA)

saintm

August 18th, 2011, 03:22 PM

HILING NG MGA NEGOSYANTE KAY PNOY:
‘Tapusin ang mga infra projects sa Norte’
By Dino Balabo

Aug 18, 2011

LUNGSOD NG MALOLOS (http://punto.com.ph/News/Article/11959/Volume-5-No-48/Headlines/HILING-NG-MGA-NEGOSYANTE-KAY-PNOY-br-%C2%91Tapusin-ang-mga-infra-projects-sa-Norte%C2%92) – Hiniling ng mga negosyante sa pamahalaang pambansa na tiyaking magpapatuloy at matatapos sa takdang panahon ang mga proyektong pang-imprastraktura upang magpatuloy ang kaunlaran sa hilaga ng kalakhang Maynila.

Ang kahilingan ay itinala sa isang resolusyong pinagtibay ng may 300 negosyanteng lumahok sa dalawang araw 20th North Luzon Area Business Conference na isinagawa sa St. Agatha Resort and Country Club sa lungsod na ito na natapos noong Biyernes, Agosto 12.

Kabilang sa mga proyektong tinukoy sa resolusuon ay ang Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (DMIA) sa Clark Freeport, Proyektong North Railways, rehabilitasyon ng Macarthur Highway, konstruksyon ng Central Luzon Link Expressway (CLLEx), Sual Seaport at Alaminos International Airport.

Kaugnay nito, sinabi ng Bulacan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) na naging matagumpay ang kumperensya dahil sa aktibong pakikilahok ng mga negosyante na bumuo ng balanseng resolusyon.

Konstruksyon ng Lingayen Gulf Coastal Highway, pagpapalawak ng North Rail Project hanggang Pangasinan, pagtatapos ng Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway (TPLEX), konstruksyon ng tunnel road o mono trail na mag-uugnay sa Gitnang Luzon at Cagayan Valley, at konstruksyon ng dagdag na dam sa Magat River na tutugon sa pangangailangan sa irigasyon.

Ayon sa mga negosyante, kapag natapos ang mga nasabing proyektong pang imprastraktura, higit na kaunlaran ang makakamit ng mga pamayanan sa rehiyon ng Ilocos, Cordillera, Cagayan Valley at Gitnang Luzon.

Binanggit din nila na ilan sa mga nasabing proyekto ay matagal na dapat natapos at napakinabangan, tulad ng DMIA at NorthRail project.

Kaugnay nito, sinabi nina Felicito Payumo ng Bases Conversion Development Authority (BCDA), at Ramoncito Fernandez ng Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation (MPTC) na ang pagkakaantala sa NorthRail na nagpapabagal sa kaunlaran ng DMIA at Gitnang Luzon.

Sinabi nila na hangga’t hindi natatapos ang NorthRail, hindi matutupad ang buong potensyal ng DMIA dahil wala pa ring pasilidad ng transportasyon na mag-uugnay sa nasabing airport at sa Kalakhang Maynila sa loob ng isang oras.

Bukod dito, sinabi nila na dapat desisyunan ng gobyerno kung gagawing high speed o commuter train service ang NorthRail.

Nilinaw ni Fernandez na kung magiging high speed ang NorthRail matitiyak na makakarating sa Maynila ang mga pasahero mula sa Clark sa loob ng isang oras.

Ang pagkakaroon ng isang pasilidad sa transportasyon na titiyak sa isang oras na biyahe sa pagitan ng Kalakhang Maynila at DMIA ay isa sa mga hinihiling ng mga malalaking kumpanya ng eroplano bago nila ilipat sa DMIA ang kanilang operasyon.

Bilang tagapamahala naman sa 20th North Luzon Area Business Conference, sinabi ng BCCI na naging matagumpay ito.

Ayon kay Mara Bautista ng BCCI, ang tagumpay ng anumang business conference ay masusukat sa mga gresolusyon ipinasa ng mga lumahok.

Sinabi niya na naging balanse ang pagbuo ng mga resolusyon dahil sa aktibong pakikilahok ng mga dumalo.

Lahat ay nagparticipate, kaya hindi lang concern ng Bulacan o certain areas ang nabigyang pansin, kundi concern ng bawat lugar na sakop ng North Luzon na lumahok,” ani Bautista.

Iginiit pa niya na ang mga kumperensiya na katulad ng NLABC ay nagsisilbing tinig ng mga negosyante.

“Hindi isang social club o social gathering ang NLABC, it’s the place where businessmen voice out their concern,” ani Bautista.

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saintm

August 25th, 2011, 10:54 AM

PIA Press Release
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Post Pepeng P300M dike rehab projects completed

by Danny O Sagun

ROSALES, Pangasinan, August 24 (PIA) -- Some P300 million worth of flood control projects has been completed under the Post Ondoy and Pepeng Rehabilitation Project.

The biggest project among the eight contract packages was the restoration of the damaged earth dikes in barangays Narra and San Vicente in San Manuel amounting to P120,264,380. It was completed in June, said Project Manager Edgardo Paragas.

The restoration of the damaged earth dike in barangay Bantog in Asingan town with a budget of P54 million was completed in May.

Protection works projects along the Banila river in Umingan town worth some P30 million was lately completed, he said.

Protection works projects along the Viray-Depalo and Ambayaoan rivers worth about P30 million in San Quintin and San Nicolas towns were finished in June.
Several rehabilitation projects for breached dikes amounting to P29.2 million were completed in May in the towns of Villasis, Balungao, Mangaldan, Mangatarem and this town, he said.

Completed also last May were several projects worth P12.7 million in the towns of Bayambang, Sts. Barbara, and Calasiao.

In Tayug town, P10.5 million was spent for the repair of the damaged earth dike in barangay Gozon last June.

Paragas said there are still many flood control projects to be done along the major river tributaries in Pangasinan.

He expressed hope that finally, the national government will be able to find foreign funding for the planned Phase 3 flood control project covering the section of the Agno river from San Manuel to Alcala town. The project needs at least P5 billion, he said.

The Japanese government funded Phase 1 and Phase 2. (ANL/DOS-PIA 1 Pangasinan)

http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=50785

saintm

August 25th, 2011, 10:57 AM

PIA Press Release
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Urdaneta-Sison national highway undergoes widening, asphalt overlay

by Danny O Sagun

ROSALES, Pangasinan, August 24 (PIA) -- Some P120 million worth of infrastructure projects for the rehabilitation of the Manila North Road (MNR) is now being implemented by the 3rd Pangasinan engineering district, the construction assistant chief said Tuesday.

Engr. Editha Manuel said P34 million was allocated for the asphalt overlay of the Villasis town road section.

Widening and concreting of the road shoulder are being done along the national highway sections in Urdaneta City with a budget of P32 million, in Pozorrubio (P29 million) and in Sison (P27 million), she said.

Funds were taken from the regular infrastructure budget of the district, which now has a new head in Officer-in-Charge Emmanuel Diaz.

District Engineer Leopoldo Mendoza has been reassigned to Mindoro, it was learned Diaz used to be Mendoza's assistant. (ANL/DOS-PIA 1 Pangasinan)

http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=R01&id=50638&y=2011&mo=08

saintm

August 26th, 2011, 04:10 PM

RDC endorses P6.5 B bio-mass project in Pangasinan

By Leonardo V. Micua

BANI, Pangasinan, Aug. 26 (PNA) — The Regional Development Council (RDC) has endorsed an integrated bio-mass project proposed here by a Spanish company as Region 1's project under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) concept.

Bani Mayor Marcelo Navarro Jr. confirmed the RDC's endorsement on the project, costing P6.5 billion based on the feasibility studies conducted by the proponent, Global Engineering Inc. of Spain.

Global Engineering proposed to bankroll 30 percent of the project cost by bringing in its technology and equipment while the 70 percent will be offered to private companies joining a consortium set to be organized.

Navarro said at this stage, three foreign companies has manifested keen interest in joining the consortium. These include the Global Energy, Asia Bio-Mass and a still unidentified company from Singapore.

The project seeks to generate 8.5 megawatt of power, produce 100,000 liters of precious ethanol and generate heat for a palay drier as tall as a three-story building, and also for a rice mill, with corresponding warehousing, that could process 17.5 tons of palay per day.

Navarro said the multi-billion peso project will spawn the massive planting of sweet sorghum in some 5,500 hectares of rainfed land in the First District of Pangasinan up to northern Zambales, which is a vital component of the project.

He said the project is ideal in the First District of Pangasinan where most of the land are rainfed and are planted to rice only during the wet season and stay idle during the dry season.

The sweet sorghum, he said, is a drought-resistant crop and thrives only during the dry months.

Once harvested after three months, the sweet sorghum will produce grains for the flour mill. Its leaves and stalks would be squeezed of juice to produce ethanol, an essential element added to motor oil.

The remainder of the squeezing process is called bagasse, which along with rice husks and other farm wastes, would be fed into a slow-burning plant to produce 8.5 megawatt of power.

The product of the burning process, said Navarro, can be used as plant fertilizers.

He said under the scheme, farmers would earn from their grains of sweet sorghum and also sell the leaves to the consortium so these can be converted into ethanol.

Since the sweet sorghum plant is ratooning after harvest, there is another harvesting of grains after three months, he said.

Navarro is confident that with the endorsement from the RDC, the project can be pushed next year as one of the PPP projects under the Aquino administration.

The municipality of Bani has already reserved three proposed industrial sites, either of which could be made as location of the bio-mass project, with a land area of 100 hectares each.

The project would only use 25 hectares which, Navarro said, is the municipality's contribution to make it go. (PNA)

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&nid=2&rid=368824

saintm

August 26th, 2011, 05:56 PM

Bio-mass project proposal ready (http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/332154/ironman-challenge)

BANI, Pangasinan — Bani Mayor Marcelo Navarro Jr. said Friday that the Regional Development Council (RDC) is ready to submit an integrated bio-mass project proposal worth P6.5 billion.

Navarro said the proposed facility that will generate 8.5 megawatt of power, produce 100,000 liters of precious ethanol and generate heat for palay driers has already caught the attention of foreign companies – Global Energy, Asia Bio-Mass, and a still-unidentified company in Singapore. (Liezle Basa Iñigo)

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saintm

August 28th, 2011, 02:10 PM

Major roads to Pangasinan open to light vehicles

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, Aug. 28 (PNA)— The roads to Urdaneta, San Carlos City, Bayambang, Manaoag and San Fabian in this province are now open even to light vehicles even if some sections are under water, according to Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (PDRRMC).

PDRRMC spokesperson Avenix Arenas said all the flooded areas can now be traversed even by light vehicles as early as 8 a.m. Sunday.

Arenas said that the situation in the flooded areas of Pangasinan had already improved with the typhoon warning sign already removed and rains have already eased a bit though the sky in the horizon remained dark.

She said there were 1,960 families or 9,740 persons affected by tropical storm "Mina" with several persons moved to evacuation centers in San Jacinto, Urdaneta City, San Fabian, Sta. Barbara and Manaoag.

The PDRRMC, however, remained on alert 24/7 at its tactical operations center (in Lingayen) until the situation stabilizes, said Arenas.

She said the areas still under water are Barangays Banaoang, Lasip, San Vicente and Talibaew in Calasiao; Minigding, Nilombot, Alibago, Dalongue, Guesangen, Matic-matic and Malanay in Sta. Barbara; some part of Inamotan, Manaoag; Osiem, Landas, Inlambo, Banaoang West and Navaluan in Mangaldan; Tocok, Mabilao, Binday in San Fabian, and some barangays in San Jacinto, Binalonan and San Nicolas.

Arenas said except for the two Bautista sibling, Rayjean,6 and John Rey, 5, of Barangay Rabon, San Fabian, who died when their house was buried by mud cascading from an adjacent hill loosened by the rains, no other victims were recorded in Pangaisnan. (PNA)

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&nid=2&rid=369177

saintm

August 29th, 2011, 06:14 PM

Fund source for project sought
By MARVYN N. BENANING
August 26, 2011, 6:33pm

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Fisheries Development Authority (PFDA) is seeking new funding sources for its P5-billion fish port rehabilitation projects after Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) backed out of it.

PFDA general manager Rodolfo Paz Jr. said that the agency is now compelled to search for new funding institutions after the JICA informed him last August 24 that Tokyo is no longer providing a grant for the project.

The explanation was that the Japanese government is engaged in the rehabilitation of all the areas hit hard by the earthquake and tsunami that devastated several prefectures in Japan and knocked out nuclear power plants on March 11.

However, Paz said JICA, which undertook a feasibility study on the project, advised Paz to ask South Korea, China and even Sweden and Norway to support it and stressed the study it completed will most likely find funding through official development assistance.

The PFDA chief is unfazed by the Japanese action and revealed that Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala may be able to tap $40 million in funds earmarked for the irrigation systems in Pangasinan that have not been used.

However, the ready cash will not be enough to cover the P5-billion project designed to improve regional fishports in Davao, Iloilo, Camaligan, Camarines Sur, and in Sual, Pangasinan.

Paz also doubted whether this project will be attractive as a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) since the gestation period for regional fishports is five years, and this long duration is not attractive to private investors.

He revealed that the total cost for the rehabilitation and expansion of regional fishports is already P1-billion each while municipal fishports would need between P10 million and P50 million to build.

http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/332194/fund-source-project-sought

saintm

August 30th, 2011, 03:34 PM

Most roads in Calasiao, Pangasinan not passable to all types of vehicles; forced evacuation on

CALASIAO, Pangasinan, Aug. 31 (PNA) — Most of the roads here are still not passable to all types of motor vehicles due to serious flooding caused by the overflowing of the Marusay River which is connected to the swollen Sinocalan River in Sta. Barbara.

Calasiao, Sta. Barbara and Dagupan are now the only remaining areas in Pangasinan still affected by serious flooding since the Sinocalan River overflowed its banks due to heavy rains spawned by typhoon “Mina” starting Saturday.

Mayor Mark Roy Macanlalay reported that there are 14 barangays of Calasiao affected by serious flooding, some residents of whom were already evacuated to higher grounds.

Macanlalay said that since floodwater is still rising, they are now implementing forced evacuation of residents in all flooded areas to save their lives.

Water in some of the barangays of Calasiao, unreached by any motor vehicle, is from four to five feet.

The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (PDRRMC) reported that the Calasiao Police station is still surrounded by floodwater.

Among the worst affected roads in the town is a portion of the national highway in Barangay Mancup here leading to San Carlos City and Malasiqui town which is not passable to all types of vehicles.

However, travel across the swollen portion of the national highway is facilitated by hand tractors called “kiliglig”, whose exhaust pipes are installed at a level higher than ordinary vehicles, thus unreached by water.

Converted as a transport vehicles during floods, ‘kuligligs” charge P20 per passenger. One hand tractor can load up to 15 persons per trip.

Operator of each “kuliglig” machine reported making an easy income of P1,000 per day just by commuting passengers across the swollen portions of highways.

Also not passable to any type of vehicles are barangay roads in Talibaew, Lasip, San Vicente, Banaoang and Pandayan-Gabon where commuters ride on paddled boats.

Meanwhile, the road in sitio Pogo to Barangay Nalsian, also in Calasiao, is not passable to light vehicles. (PNA)

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&nid=2&rid=369516

saintm

September 2nd, 2011, 03:36 PM

Phl seeks to rebid NorthRail project
By Aurea Calica (The Philippine Star)

BEIJING (via PLDT) – The Philippines is seeking to re-bid the NorthRail contract between the government and Chinese firm China National Machinery and Equipment Corp. (CNMEC) in the hope of getting better terms.

Transportation Secretary Manuel Roxas II told reporters that the Chinese have agreed to “reconfigure” the NorthRail project, but the terms would have to be discussed by his department and his Chinese counterpart. He said this development became apparent during the meeting between President Aquino and Chinese President Hu Jintao.

Roxas, in an ambush interview while on a tour of the Forbidden City with Aquino and his delegation, said the project would have to be redesigned and that CNMEC would be compensated for its efforts.

He said CNMEC had completed only one kilometer of the 90 kilometers in the contract and the advance payment of the Philippine government would likely even exceed the amount that would be paid to the contractor. He said engineers and finance experts would determine the amount.

“There is what you call value engineering,” Roxas said, adding, “The key word that we are using is reconfiguration.”

“Both in substance and in form, reconfiguration has a difference with renegotiation. Renegotiation means the existing contract will be changed. Reconfiguration is the project itself will be changed,” he said.

On Wednesday, Aquino said they discussed the government’s appeal regarding the NorthRail project, with the Chinese expressing concern that one of their companies might be put at a disadvantage.

“I think the response basically was there’s a Chinese company that expended its time, its efforts, certain resources – their rights have to be respected. But no, our proposal is there so that would be taken care of and further discussions between our Department of Transportation and Communications and the responsible officials that the Chinese have. So that is yet to be resolved,” Aquino said during an interview with the media over coffee.

Asked if the Chinese side was open to renegotiation, the President said the answer was subject to interpretation.

“When they get to discussing the details, it would be the proper time for me to really stress and really emphasize what the details are rather than say something right now based on my interpretation of what they said, which is open to other interpretations,” Aquino said.

Reconfiguration

“Precisely it’s a reconfiguration so instead of going back and focusing on the problematic present, we will reconfigure the entire project, not just the contract. What’s important for us is a rail link north,” Roxas said.

“The NorthRail project is an attempt to operationalize that. We have problems with that and so we will reconfigure the project itself, not just the contract, so that it will go into the central business district of Metro Manila. Now it just stops in Caloocan, and it will go to the airport itself because now it stops in Mabalacat (Pampanga),” he said.

Roxas explained that what had originally been intended to link the two airports ended up being just a commuter system with about 10 stops.

“So obviously this cannot be used by the passengers at the airport. And it stopped in Mabalacat, which is about 15 kilometers short of the Clark airport facility, and then at the Caloocan port which is another 15 kilometers short of the Central Business District which is also quite important for us,” he said.

“Our intent is to write up a whole new project (for the same cost) – it will be what it will be. We will write the terms of reference. This is our desire and this is what the ministers will flesh out… we will write up a whole new project, the Philippine side will write up the terms of reference unlike the existing (contract) where the Chinese side will write the terms of reference,” Roxas said.

“In recognition of the Chinese financing, the accreditation will be among experienced Chinese rail companies, not just any contractor,” he said.

Roxas said the project “will be bidded out” if and when the talks with the Chinese government end successfully. He said he could not say if China was amenable to such terms.

“All we can say is that they are open and they said the ministers would have to go back and attend to the details,” he said.

Roxas said the development was significant because the Chinese side did not flatly reject the Philippines’ appeals.

Allegations of corruption have tainted Chinese projects in the Philippines, including the NorthRail and SouthRail projects as well as the national broadband network (NBN) project. Then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo had to cancel the NBN deal in the wake of allegations that her husband and some of her officials received kickbacks from NBN contractor ZTE Corp.

“We will write specifically each other (his counterpart) maybe in a month’s time. But right now, there are no additional costs because the operations (for the project) were suspended,” Roxas said.

He said he didn’t know how much a reconfigured project would cost.

“It’s hard to tell, we leave it up to the engineers. The big difference is that what we want are as follows: number one, we will write the terms of reference unlike at present where the (Chinese contractor) wrote the terms of reference,” Roxas said.

“Secondly, we will determine the accomplishments, unlike now wherein the bank releases the (money) to the (Chinese contractor) according to what they said they had done when we will be the ones to pay for the debt,” he said.

Roxas said the debtor should be the one to determine the accomplishments.

“Thirdly, there should be a bidding instead of just designating any company,” Roxas said.

Based on its records, CNMEC’s expertise is in dams and other projects and not in railways.

In 2004, China agreed to provide some $400 million to begin the project, initially the phase connecting Caloocan City and Malolos in Bulacan.

Considered as the largest Chinese project in Southeast Asia, the NorthRail project was also planned to extend to the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport in Clark freeport, Pampanga.

Its second phase was designed to cover the Subic Freeport Zone in Zambales while its third phase would cover Caloocan City to the Fort Bonifacio Global City in Taguig.

The fourth phase, based on plans, will pass through Pampanga, Tarlac, and Pangasinan until San Fernando, La Union.

According to its original proposal, the company will install a double-track system using narrow gauge tracks compatible with those being used by the Philippine National Railways.

Once completed, the 32-kilometer railway is expected to carry 350,000 commuters daily, including those coming from the Light Rail Transit and the Metro Rail Transit in Metro Manila, which will later be connected to NorthRail.

Transparency

Meanwhile, Isabela Rep. Rodolfo Albano called on President Aquino and his delegation to reveal all the deals and transactions they made in China.

“In keeping with the administration’s avowed policy of transparency, all trade and business agreements should be bared and detailed,” Albano said.

“With over 300 businessmen accompanying the President, there is much public interest on possible new trade deals,” he said.

Albano is a colleague of former president and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in the House opposition bloc.

Arroyo made several trips to China during her nine-year presidency, including a lightning visit in 2007, when, according to a Malacañang press release, she “came and went like a thief in the night,” bringing home billions of dollars worth of deals.

One such deal was the $329-million NBN deal. At least two witnesses in the Senate inquiry into the NBN controversy claimed the contract was overpriced and laden with kickbacks.

On the other hand, Cagayan de Oro City Rep. Rufus Rodriguez – an administration ally – lauded Aquino for his successful China trip.

“The $60-billion worth of agreements signed during the Beijing visit will go a long way in helping the country develop its economy. The decision to ‘reconfigure’ the expensive North Luzon rail project will save us money,” he said.

Rodriguez said the discussions on the territorial dispute over the Spratlys group of islets laid down the basis for the eventual resolution of the conflict.

“The consensus was to settle this among claimant-countries with the involvement of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations),” he said.

He added that he has no doubt that President Aquino protected the country’s interest in all the discussions and agreements he made with Chinese officials. With Jess Diaz

http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=722871&publicationSubCategoryId=63

saintm

September 8th, 2011, 08:09 PM

New highway from Pangasinan to Nueva Vizcaya proposed as PPP project

September 8, 2011 9:57 pm
By Leonardo V. Micua

DAGUPAN CITY, Sept. 8 —- A board member of Pangasinan has revived an old proposal for the construction of a highway from Barangay Carmen in Rosales, Pangasinan, all the way to Santa Fe, Nueva Vizcaya passing through the old Villaverde Trail that was carved out during World War II.

Sixth District Sangguniang Panlalawigan Member Ranjit Ramos Shahani outlined the project as one of the highways to be built in Pangasinan under a consortium to be organized by several companies through the Public-Private Partnership concept.

Speaking during Wednesday's Media in Action Forum of the Pangasinan Press Club (PPC) here, Shahani said the old Villaverde Trail was the route taken by the United States Armed Forces in the Far East (USAFFE) when they chased the retreating Japanese forces towards the end of World War II during the liberation of Luzon.

Shahani said the new highway was proposed way back during the administration of former President Fidel V. Ramos as a shorter route from Pangasinan to the Cagayan Valley, passing the historic Dalton Pass in Sta. Fe, Nueva Vizcaya.

Incidentally, according to Shahani, the Maharlika Highway is now being built from San Jose del Monte in Bulacan all the way to Cagayan, perpendicular to the Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway (TPLEX).

With the anticipated benefits of the proposed highway from Pangasinan to Nueva Vizcaya, the project is set to be recommended by Shahani to be included in the Pangasinan development agenda from 2011 to 2016 for endorsement by the Regional Development Council (RDC).

He said the project does not need Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) since it will be endorsed to be funded by a consortium of several businesses, like those backing the construction of TPLEx.

Shahani is optimistic that once the new highway is in place, the town of Rosales could boom and become the fifth city in the province of Pangasinan.

He said the proposed highway will also explore the potentials of Malico, a mountain barangay in San Nicolas, Pangasinan, which has a weather similar to Baguio’s and could be developed as an alternative summer capital of the Philippines.

“With a boundary dispute between San Nicolas, Pangasinan and Sta. Fe, Nueva Vizcaya still unresolved, we can devise an acceptable scheme so that Barangays Malico and Imugan, Sta. Fe along the Villaverde Trail can be developed jointly by the provinces of Pangasinan and Nueva Vizcaya,” Shahani added.

The new highway that will be built, he said, can attract foreign investors who can put up mountain resorts, similar to Camp John Hay in Baguio, where tourists can make a visit year-round.

He said the area is still teeming with wild flora and fauna, making it ideal for eco-tourism and adventure tours. (PNA) DCT/LAM/LVM/rma

http://balita.ph/2011/09/08/new-highway-from-pangasinan-to-nueva-ecija-proposed-as-ppp-project/

^^ branch of TPLEX going to Cagayan Valley!!! (East Pangasinan Expressway???)

Lingayen Gulf Coastal Highway similar to Cavite Coastal Road (Tollway) under study, also connected to TPLEX..

Zambales-Pangasinan Mountain Highway link now completed, highland resort developents offerd to investors :cheers::cheers::cheers::cheers:

saintm

September 8th, 2011, 08:31 PM

Hope they also revive Sual-Pagbilao Expressway, from Sual, Pangasinan to Pagbilao, Quezon via Central Pangasinan,Nueva Ecija, Aurorra and Pacific Coast Cities, daba bongga beautifully called Sierra Madre expressway..

To backup my claim about the Sual-Pagbilao Expressway proposed:cheers::cheers:

The Best Highway in The Philippines when undertaken!!! Hoping San Miguel takes notice of this...

Motoring

Posted on September 06, 2011 09:01:26 PM

Not So Fast -- Tito F. Hermoso

Partnership needed

Once upon a time in this troubled land presided a hopeful and universally admired administration that was annoyed by and allergic to unsolicited advice.

We are not the tut-tutting kind but one can only suppose that if that almost sainted administration wasn’t annoyed and allergic to unsolicited advice, all those destructive coups, infrastructure decay, power failures, foreign investor exodus along with unions and local governments empowered unto abuse could have been avoided.

To be fair, our status as a pariah in debt circles stunted the growth of our economy a quarter of a century ago. Being the ugly duckling of the ASEAN tiger economies, we managed to dig ourselves a deeper hole via a prevailing mood of jingoist nationalism, driving away foreign investors. Our democracy degenerated to ochlocracy. Justice was by viva voce and mass media lynching, courtesy of yellow journalism unchecked in its newfound power and freedom from censorship.

While all hell was breaking loose, there was still a dedicated cadre of technocrats, career civil service executives who earned their positions through merit. With the change in dispensation, bureaucrats of the political appointee kind decamped with their former masters.

Government at that time had infrastructure plans for the future and despite the malaise of the new amateur ochlocracy and the loss of credit standing, there was hope that the infrastructure backlog could now be planned without politicking. Besides, the cadre of career service executives already had established professional dialogue with international multilateral aid and development assistance agencies in the planning of infrastructure. There were blueprints that any NEDA five-year development plan would be proud off and projects that met the stringent economic impact criterion of the ICC (Investment Coordination Committee). Amid the ruins of a degenerating economy, there was hope.

Eight years after, the BOT Law came on stream and we were flooded with grand projects, solicited and unsolicited, with equally grand financing. Besides a whole new power grid and dozens of plants to tackle the power fiasco, there were dozens of toll road projects, with Hopewell’s Sual, Pangasinan to Pagbilao, Quezon scenic Sierra Madre expressway as the most spectacular. The momentum carried on to railways, airports and Ro-Ro ports. This youthful Asian exuberance was felled by the Asian financial crisis. Since then, however, infrastructure has picked up the pace, largely because of the determination and perseverance of the private sector.

Though still busy making infrastructure plans itself, the government could not match the access to credit, innovation, creativity and vision of the private sector, no doubt a result of decades of underfunding as such “planning” does not excite the popular vote of the ochlocracy.

Hence by default, most of the infrastructure plans were from the private sector. Aside from not being as risk averse as government, the private sector plans were also commercially astute. Of course the profit motive makes any institution more agile and imaginative. The BCDA, technically a government agency custodian-investor-rain maker of converted bases real estate, is run along private sector lines. Its notable successes are Clark, Subic, John Hay and Bonifacio. But the most successful out-of-box project that it ever dealt with was unsolicited: the SCTEx.

At inception, the Cassandras outnumbered the visionaries. Highways experts scoffed at the limited traffic it would generate and the loss it would incur. Its route, through Pinatubo’s virgin landscape, was nowhere linked to any DPWH network. The more suspicious looked at the project as a milking cow for the influential. But the SCTEx found a willing investor in the most conservative of Japanese institutions: the JBIC. It gave BCDA 40 years, terms that no local or Asian bank could match. The SCTEx was to be built and finished to Japanese dual carriageway standards. Local contractors applying for subcontract work were insulted when they did not pass Japanese standards. Several “demolition jobs” against the project sprouted in the tabloid press. But now, the SCTEx is a reality and a necessity. Having been successful, JBIC is willing to finance the BCDA to continue the dual carriageway SCTEx to La Union (TPLEx) and a spur to Dingalan Bay on the Pacific Coast. (Today’s TPLEx stage 1 reaching Gerona, Tarlac as a two-lane single carriageway highway is privately funded by PIDCo.)

The success of the SCTEx encouraged and revived other private sector businesses to offer unsolicited proposals not just for toll highways, but also for high-tech adjustable Ro-Ro ports, the dredging of silted lakes, hydroelectric dams, ports, railways, power plants, smart grids, nationwide broadband, integrated metro-transit intermodal systems, trams and commuter light railways.

Alas, all of this is in limbo. It would appear that in the course of investigating corruption, today’s government looks at unsolicited proposals as a corrupt practice. Corruption can and will happen if and when checks and balances are not triggered. In the BOT law and the PPP guidelines, there are strict conditions for a project to proceed and the final check-balance was the subjection of the project to a “Swiss Challenge”. Thus any unsolicited proposal will always have to pass scrutiny as international anti-corruption standards must be met to secure donor or foreign financing. Classifying unsolicited proposals as corrupt is like throwing the baby with the bathwater.

The government should consider that the flag-hugging private sector, which benefits if the country catches up with its infrastructure backlog, is as zealously motivated to make plans where the government has none. In some PPP projects, the government has insisted that right-of-way purchases be shouldered by the project proponent. As in BOT, the government is supposed to own the road right of way so why is it passing that burden to the private sector? Where’s the partnership there? Or is the government idea of partnership like that of a jail warden whose attitude is guilty until proven innocent? Or does the cash register mentality reigns, making demands so onerous that the proposer will have no choice but to walk away? Does the witch hunt have to creep into even matters as boring as planning for our future?

http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=Motoring&title=Partnership-needed&id=37823

:banana::banana::banana::banana:

915bungohunter

September 10th, 2011, 08:45 PM

saintm

September 11th, 2011, 08:54 PM

Hehehe bat di nalang bolinao-sual-pagbilao up to CALAUAG qzn hehehhee:)

Pwede rin! :banana::banana::banana: at least may possible extension if ever may investor na magtakeup po ng project na ito.. it is deemed feasible naman po kasi may studies made ang Hopewell Construction of Hong Kong..

915bungohunter

September 12th, 2011, 05:49 AM

Pwede rin! :banana::banana::banana: at least may possible extension if ever may investor na magtakeup po ng project na ito.. it is deemed feasible naman po kasi may studies made ang Hopewell Construction of Hong Kong..
Ang calauag kasi dun stop over ng mga bus byaheng bicol:)

saintm

September 18th, 2011, 01:18 PM

Calasiao road widening bothers vendors, PUV drivers
Posted by Online on Sep 17th, 2011

by Venus H. Sarmiento

CALASIAO, Pangasinan, Philippines (PIA) – A road widening project in this town is set to start this month and fruit vendors are bothered with the prospect of relocation.

The road widening project of the national government will start from Marusay bridge until Mac Arthur Highway and will affect at least five barangays- Buenlag, Macabito Songkoy, Mancup and Talibaew.

The long line of fruit vendors in the affected areas are worried as to where they could sell their products as they face decline in sales.

Tricycle drivers plying the route would have to pass by a farther route which is an additional one kilometer. This prompted them to ask for additional P3 charge in tricycle fare.

Municipal Administrator Vivencio Vallo said the government has already laid out plans for the relocation of the vendors. During the construction period, fruit vendors could stay beside the puto vendors’ area where they initially sold their products.

Vallo said not all tricycle drivers will be affected. A simple turn to sitio Pogo in barangay Nalsian is just a kilometer away and they would be given the freedom to park in the plaza, he said.

As to the demand for fare hike, the concerned group could ask Sangguniang Bayan for a resolution, he explained.

http://www.tempo.com.ph/2011/calasiao-road-widening-bothers-vendors-puv-drivers/

saintm

September 19th, 2011, 08:03 AM

PIA Press Release
Monday, September 19, 2011

NIA to open San Angel dam soon

by Venus H. Sarmiento

DAGUPAN CITY, Sept. 19 (PIA) -- A new dam built by the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) is set to operate in November to provide additional irrigation to rice lands in Pangasinan.

The San Angel Small Reservoir Irrigation Project (SRIP), located in Rosales town, is planned to be a small scale impounding reservoir project for irrigation and fishery.

NIA information officer Adoracion Soriano said the project will provide irrigation to 161 hectares of rice land mostly located in barangays San Angel, Calanutan and San Antonio.

More than 115 farmers are expected to benefit from this project with an incremental gross production value of palay estimated at 692 tons per year.

The impounded water will have a potential fishery development for at least 5.40 hectares in two production seasons. The fish culture in the reservoir is expected to give increased benefits to other project residents and farmers in the community, she added.

The major features of the project are the main dam, which is a modified homogenous earth dam, and its appurtenant structures such as the spillway and outlet works and the irrigation and drainage facilities for the service area.

The San Angel SRIP construction started in March 2010 and has a total project cost of P79.1 million. (ANL/VHS-PIA 1 Pangasinan)

http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=54924

saintm

September 20th, 2011, 09:20 AM

(TPLEx)Manila MRT 7 seen completed in '14

MANILA, Philippines—Conglomerate San Miguel Corp. (SMC) expects to complete two of its big-ticket infrastructure projects—the MRT 7 train line and a new highway to La Union—by 2014 and 2015, respectively.
In a disclosure earlier this week, the company said it would start work on the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) line 7 project—involving the construction of a 22-kilometer train line and the six-lane road beneath it—before the end of the year.
The project is estimated to cost $1.5 billion, with 25 percent to be funded by equity and the rest through loans.
SMC expects to shell out over $190 million for the project.
“It is expected to take three and a half years from the fourth quarter of 2011 to complete MRT 7,” SMC said.
The MRT 7 project will have 14 train stations from San Jose del Monte in Bulacan to the corner of North Avenue and Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (Edsa) in Quezon City.
It will be linked with the MRT-3 train line and the Light Rail Transit (LRT) line 1 via a common station in North Avenue.
On Nov. 8, 2010, SMC acquired a 51-percent equity interest in Universal LRT, which holds the concession for MRT-7, a planned expansion of the metro rail system in Manila, home to more than 10 million people.
MRT 7 is one of the several rail extension projects for the existing metro rail system, which services Metro Manila.
SMC will have 25 years to operate the train line.
In the meantime, the conglomerate said the first phase of the Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway (TPLEx) project, the stretch from Tarlac to Carmen, Pangasinan, was scheduled for completion by August 2012.
Revenue collection through toll will start immediately after the first phase is opened, “while the remainder of the expressway is projected to be completed by August 2014,” SMC said.
SMC currently holds a 25-percent stake in TPLEx concessionaire Private Infrastructure Development Corp. (PIDC), which is a joint venture between DM Consunji Inc. and DM Wenceslao & Associates Inc.
SMC has the right to increase its stake in the company through a P3.32-billion equity investment, which will help fund the project. This will increase SMC’s interest in the company to a controlling 51 percent.
The project cost for the development of TPLEx was estimated at P821.6 billion, which will be funded by a combination of debt (45.8 percent), equity (40.8 percent) and Philippine government subsidy (13.4 percent.)
The government subsidy will be available at the start of construction of Stage 3 of TPLEx, the section from Urdaneta to Rosario, Pangasinan.

saintm

September 20th, 2011, 01:00 PM

PIA Press Release
Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Dagupan sidewalk recovery going on, says city engineer

by Danny O Sagun

DAGUPAN CITY, Sept. 20 (PIA) -- Recovery of sidewalks is one of the major projects being undertaken by the city engineering office to keep pedestrians safe.

City Engineer Virginia Rosario said work along M. H. del Pilar street is almost complete. Next in line is at Jovellanos street.

"Hindi lang mapaganda ang mga sidewalks natin kundi maging safe ang daanan ng mga pedestrians," she told the Pantongtongan Tayo radio program of the Philippine Information Agency over Radyo ng Bayan DZMQ on Tuesday.

Rosario noted that some road shoulders have already been encroached by private lot owners or occupied by ambulant vendors making it very difficult for pedestrians to pass through. "Sa mismong kalsada na nga sila dumadaan dahil wala na yong sidewalk," she said.

First recovered were the road shoulders of Rivera street. "Maganda yong sidewalk don kasi may design." All recovered sidewalks will have similar design, she bared.

After the inner streets, sidewalk recovery along the two major thoroughfares - A.B. Fernandez Avenue and Perez Boulevard - will follow, she said.

The other projects being undertaken by the city include the Gawad Kalinga housing project of the city in partnership with the Red Cross, and rehabilitation of drainage systems to mitigate flooding, she said. (ANL/DOS-PIA 1 Pangasinan)

http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r01&id=55173

saintm

September 21st, 2011, 06:55 PM

PIA Press Release
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Bonuan drainage project completed in December, says district engineer

by Danny O Sagun

DAGUPAN CITY, Sept. 21 (PIA) -- Finally, a drainage system that may end the perennial flooding problem in barangay Bonuan Gueset here is under way.

District Engineer Rodolfo Dion of the 2nd Pangasinan engineering district said the 2.5-kilometer-drainage system project costing P45 million is expected to be completed by December.

Part of the project is rehabilitation of the existing drainage system which proved ineffective because of the absence of an outlet. The system will now drain its waters at the Tanap river.

Other flood prone road sections here which have been assured of funding next year are those in barangays Lucao, Tapuac, Mayombo and Caranglaan, he bared during the Pantongtongan Tayo radio program of the Philippine Information Agency over Radyo ng Bayan DZMQ Tuesday.

A budget of P82 million was earmarked for the elevation of the road and rehabilitation of the drainage systems, with P42 million going to the Mayombo-Caranglaan road section, P20 for the Lucao section and P15 to the Tapuac stretch, he said.

He also said he will coordinate with fourth district Rep. Gina de Venecia for the possible funding of the asphalt overlay of the badly damaged city road in barangay Tebeng.

City Engineer Virginia Rosario has asked Dion to include the road in the list of projects by the engineering district next year. About P10 million is needed for it, she said. (ANL/DOS-PIA 1 Pangasinan)

http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=55315

saintm

September 22nd, 2011, 03:21 PM

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PIA Press Release
Thursday, September 22, 2011

Agno River Irrigation Project widens service areas in Pangasinan

by Venus H. Sarmiento

DAGUPAN CITY, Sept. 22 (PIA) -- The construction of the Agno River Integrated Irrigation Project (ARIIP) firmed up to more than double the service areas of the National Irrigation Administration.

Before the construction of ARIIP, only 5,000 hectares out of the 12, 037 service areas of NIA were irrigated. Upon the facilities’ operation in 2009, the irrigated hectares increased to 7,500.

Engr. Frida Nidoy, chief of the Agno-Sinucalan River Irrigation System, said that in 2010, ARIIP was able to water 10,966 hectares which gave farmers some relief especially at the height of the dry season.

“Makikita talaga yung impact ng ARIIP kasi nadoble ang irrigated areas namin,” Nidoy said.

Nidoy said it took a while before NIA’s facilities were rehabilitated due to lack of funds. With the release of fund for ARIIP other projects like the dredging of canals, widening of drainage canals and the repair and rehabilitation of deteriorated structures and facilities were undertaken.

Part of the ARIIP, she said, is the construction of the re-regulating pond which is due for completion on July 2012. Once the system is fully implemented, service areas could be expanded to 26,850 hectares.

Aside from that, the 85-hectare re-regulating pond will catch water “kaya may mapagkukunan kami ng tubig kahit dry season,” she added.

Nidoy said the Agno-Sinucalan River irrigation system is one of the biggest in Region I and the most viable.

The Agno River system covers districts 3, 4, 5 and 6 with the towns of Mapandan, Sta. Barbara, Malasiqui, Manaoag, Laoac, Villasis, Binalonan, Asingan and San Manuel while the Sinucalan River system covers some parts of the towns of Sta. Barbara, Calasiao, Mangaldan, Mapandan and the city of Dagupan. (ANL/VHS-PIA 1 Pangasinan)

http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=55674

saintm

September 23rd, 2011, 06:37 PM

New Marusay bridge to be built in Pangasinan town (http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&nid=2&rid=374747)

CALASIAO, Pangasinan, Sept. 23 (PNA) - Pangasinan Third District Rep. Rachel Arenas has announced that a new bridge will be constructed along the Marusay River here just after the Poblacion to replace the old one in anticipation of a bigger volume of vehicular traffic passing the town.

Arenas said the new Marusay Bridge, costing P50 million, will be built by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), through the Third Engineering District.

However, the construction of the new bridge will entail a little sacrifice upon the people of Calasiao, especially the motorists, as they will have to make a detour in order to reach their destinations.

The new bridge will be longer than the old, thus it may encroach upon the area where "puto" vendors set up their stalls which may need to be relocated.

It was learned that the 3rd highway engineering district is set to build a bailey bridge for pedestrians so the public, especially pupils and students, will not be much inconvenienced by the construction of the project.

The construction of the new bridge will be a big boon to Calasiao where the Robinson’s Mall is possibly set to open by December this year. (PNA)

saintm

September 25th, 2011, 04:18 PM

Tarlac Pangasinan La Union express way, mabayag ya gagawen?

Friday, 23 September 2011 07:16
Pangasinan News (http://www.bomboradyo.com/news/regional-news/pangasinan/77850-tarlac-pangasinan-la-union-express-way-mabayag-ya-gagawen)

DAGUPAN CITY- Ipatawag na saray miyembro na Sangguniang Panlalawigan so Department of Public Works and Highways Central Office umpan panpaliwawaen et mabayag ya pangagawa na Tarlac Pangasinan La Union express way.

Unong ed kinen 6th District Board Member Alfonso Bince gabay dan naantaan no anto la so progreso na abetlan proyekto ta base ed imbaga na abetlan ahensiya ya nasumpal la iya no December 2012 balet singa mabayag ni iyan nasumpal.

Kwanto met ya nawawalaan met iya na problema tan dakel ni so aga nababayaran ya right of way tonya.

Maliban ed saya et dakel ni so aga nagagawa ed parte na Pangasinan katon gabay dan naantaan no nasumpal iya et inbagan petsa o mas unbayag ni.

saintm

September 26th, 2011, 06:06 PM

PIA Press Release
Monday, September 26, 2011

Task force created to ready Pangasinan for big projects

by Danny O Sagun

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, Sept. 26 (PIA) -- A provincial task force has been created to coordinate efforts that will establish Pangasinan as a conducive and suitable location for industries and other viable investments.

In Executive Order No. 0075-2011, Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. created the Strategic Management Task Force to be responsible in the "efficient and effective implementation of development programs, objectives and priorities in the province of Pangasinan."

"It is the desire of the present provincial administration to pursue a development strategy with emphasis on investment promotion, employment generation, manpower development, tourism development, agriculture and fisheries, and the establishment of vital support infrastructures," the order stated.

The local government code mandates local government units to make full use of their resources through an organization responsible for the effective implementation of such programs, the order noted.

Named chair was Provincial Administrator Rafael F. Baraan with Board Member Ranjit R. Shahani as co-chair. The task force was authorized to call on government agencies for their technical support.

Shahani in a media forum last week said the task force would have as priority concerns the bid of the province to host the Palarong Pambansa next year and the possible implementation of big projects like the long-proposed Pangasinan-Nueva Vizcaya shortcut road utilizing the Valleverde trail and Phase 3 of the Agno River flood control project. (ANL/DOS-PIA 1 Pangasinan)

http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=56234

saintm

September 28th, 2011, 04:59 PM

The San Angel Dam in Rosales and Cabatuan Dam in Bugallon

THE STORY OF TWO DAMS

A NEW dam called San Angel Small Reservoir Irrigation Project located in the eastern town of Rosales will be operational by November, providing irrigation to rice lands and a soon a fish farming facility.

On the other hand, the Cabatuan Dam in Bugallon, a town in the western side of the province, is in dire need of repair after it was heavily damaged by the most recent typhoon this year affecting farmlands around the area.

The San Angel dam, built by the National Irrigation Administration, will provide irrigation to 161 hectares of rice land mostly located in barangays San Angel, Calanutan and San Antonio.

More than 115 farmers are expected to benefit from this reservoir with an incremental gross production value of palay estimated at 692 tons per year.

The impounded water could be used for fish culture within at least 5.40 hectares in two production seasons.

NIA information officer Adoracion Soriano said the major features of the project are the main dam, which is a modified homogenous earth dam, and its appurtenant structures such as the spillway and outlet works and the irrigation and drainage facilities for the service area.

The San Angel SRIP construction started in March 2010 and has a total project cost of P79.1 million.

CABATUAN DAM

Meanwhile, the Cabatuan Dam, one of the four dams providing irrigation to 200 hectares of farmlands, was heavily damaged by typhoon Falcon and ensuing flashfloods.

Engr. Sergio Martinez, chief of NIA’s San Fabian-Dumoloc River Irrigation System, said the dam needs to be repaired immediately to enable affected farmers in the area to harvest on schedule.

“Kapag hindi agad nabigyan ng pondo, hindi makapag-ani ang mga magsasaka,” he said.

Meanwhile, a temporary restoration procedure has been adopted for the construction of a provisional dam (by connecting lateral AB canal from Dumoloc to Cabatuan canal) by the Provincial Irrigation Management Office but Martinez said this will only be useful for the short term.

NIA has held talks with chief executives of the local government units of San Fabian, San Jacinto and Bugallon for possible additional funding for the restoration and repair of the dam.

ARIIP

In another development, Frida Nidoy, chief of the Agno-Sinocalan River Irrigation System, said the construction of the Agno River Integrated Irrigation Project (ARIIP) has more than doubled NIA’s service area.

Before the construction of ARIIP, only 5,000 hectares out of the 12, 037 service areas of NIA were irrigated.

The serviced area reached 10,966 hectares in 2010 with ARIIP.

“Makikita talaga yung impact ng ARIIP kasi nadoble ang irrigated areas namin,” Nidoy said.

Another component of ARIIP, the re-regulating pond, is still pending and is aimed for completion by July 2012.

Once the ARIIP system is fully implemented, the service area could be expanded to 26,850 hectares.

“Aside from that, the 85-hectare re-regulating pond will catch water kaya may mapagkukunan kami ng tubig kahit dry season,” Nidoy added.

The Agno River system covers the towns of Mapandan, Sta. Barbara, Malasiqui, Manaoag, Laoac, Villasis, Binalonan, Asingan and San Manuel, while the Sinocalan River system covers some parts of the towns of Sta. Barbara, Calasiao, Mangaldan, Mapandan and Dagupan City. (PIA-Pangasinan/V. H. Sarmiento)

http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2011/09/25/the-san-angel-dam-in-rosales-and-cabatuan-dam-in-bugallon/

saintm

September 30th, 2011, 07:53 AM

Ramos road to Cagayan revived

by Danny O. Sagun

DAGUPAN CITY—Sixth district board member Ranjit Shahani of Pangasinan wants the private sector to build the shortcut road proposed during the Ramos administration across Caraballo mountains to Cagayan Valley.

He said the old Valle Verde trail passing through the boundary towns of San Nicolas in Pangasinan to Sta. Fe in Nueva Vizcaya may be tapped as a national road, connecting to the highways in the two provinces.

Shahani said the infrastructure was taken up during the term of former President Fidel Ramos leading to Balete or Dalton Pass.

Built as a toll road like the expressways, the private investor would recover his money in due time, he said.

Under construction is the Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union expressway which connects with the Subic-Clark-Tarlac expressway.

Shahani said the proposed mountain road could usher in the economic growth in eastern Pangasinan and lead to the cityhood of Rosales and Tayug, already proving to be business centers.

Boundary Barangay Malico in San Nicolas with its Baguio-like weather may also be developed into a major tourism or vacation hub, Shahani said.

Under the public-private partnership program of the Aquino administration, he said Pangasinan could realize more major projects for agricultural development, eco-tourism and varied industries.

Sual town is putting up a seaport to complement a domestic airport in Alaminos City, which hosts the famous Hundred Islands. PIA

http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/insideNation.htm?f=2011/september/29/nation4.isx&d=2011/september/29

saintm

September 30th, 2011, 07:55 AM

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PREEMPTIVE RELEASE The San Roque Dam in San Manuel, Pangasinan, opens one gate to release water on Thursday to ease pressure on the facility from the expected heavy rains of the incoming Tropical Storm “Quiel.” Pangasinan towns located downstream are bracing for possible floods. The dam collects water released by the Binga and Ambuklao Dams in Benguet. WILLY LOMIBAO/CONTRIBUTOR (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/67707/6-luzon-dams-release-water-worsen-floods)

saintm

September 30th, 2011, 08:02 AM

San Roque Dam managed better

LINGAYEN, Pangasinan — Governor Amado T. Espino Jr. assured Thursday the safety of his constituents residing in areas that serve as a catch basin of water released from San Roque Dam through more efficient management of spilling operations.

As such, water was released to its spillway at 12 noon Thursday to preempt any sudden release in water that caused flashflooding in low-lying areas in the past. Espino put to task the San Roque Power Corporation to have an efficient coordinating system with the provincial government to prevent sudden flooding that puts lives at risk. (Liezle Basa Iñigo)

http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/336046/hanging-bridge-opened-bukod

saintm

October 1st, 2011, 09:42 AM

Dagupan administrator advised planners to adapt developmental concerns for key projects

by Alex Romeo R. Fernandez

DAGUPAN CITY, Sept. 30 (PIA) -- City and municipal planners must first identify the weaknesses of their communities before they draw up plans for development.

City Administrator Vladimir T. Mata said all local government units (LGU) have their own weaknesses that, if not properly addressed before hand, may hinder or render ineffective any planned development program.

This developmental constraints are realities that must be considered before embarking on any program.

“Development programs must be anchored to these realities. ‘Yong mga planners at ang kanilang CPD [city development plans] hindi akma sa realidad, hindi naman naiku-consider ang environmental factors,” he said during the KBP Forum at the Philippine Information Agency on Thursday.

He identified low ground elevation and rising sea level due to global warming as among this city’s “developmental constrain”.

Local planners, he advised, must also draw up plans that jive with the national government programs.

Reconstruction efforts after major disasters are another setback as such drain funds that should have been used for other purposes, he stressed. (ANL/ARRF-PIA 1 Pangasinan)

http://pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r01&id=56964

saintm

October 7th, 2011, 05:43 PM

Viaduct urged in Pangasinan (http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/313563/viaduct-urged-pangasinan)
By LIEZLE BASA INIGO

ROSALES, Pangasinan — Farmers and the Rural folks here have appealed to the provincial government to intervene and stop the ongoing quarrying and landfilling activities purportedly designed for an 8-kilometer section of the pro-posed Tarlac-Pangasinal-La Union Expressway citing anti-flood and environmental reasons.

The attention of Governor Amado T. Espino Jr., was called last week to stop the quarrying and land filling works. They said "what we need is a viaduct, not a dike road which would cause, not prevent flooding in our town during rainy days."

The farmers said,Gov. Espino had already directed his assistant former Mayor Ramon Morden to inspect the area.

At press time, the quarrying and land filling stopped, delighting the farmers, adding "we hope it will be permanent and give way to the construction of a viaduct which right-thinking engineers recommend." The landfilling was meant to build a dike-road as part of the ongoing construction of the Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway.

This project ,the Northern Luzon Expressway (NLEX) would shorten travel time between the Northern provinces and Manila.

One of the good projects started by the past administration, the NLEX-TPLEX is being continued by the Aquino administration.

The higher authorities at the DPWH and DoTC in charge of the project were also informed on the concern of the farmers where more than l,000 residents signed the letter.

In their letter, the signatories "residing in l9 barangays of Rosales appeal to your good office to investigate and stop immediately the ongoing land filling activities by Nepomoceno Trucking Company."

The letter added that the land filling is "with the knowledge of local officials ... in clear violation of what the residents have proposed, which is a viaduct for the TPLEX."

The complainants said Governor Espino was angry at the reported land filling activities and ordered his staff to stop it.

Part of the quarrying, the letter said, has reached foot of Balungao mountain near a National Park and "very near a live volcano, which could erupt once disturbed. This is serious and frightening".

The landfilling already covered a sizable portion of the proposed 8-kilometer section of the TPLEX in Rosales," the letter added.

Residents here are constantly besieged by fears of floods because of their harrowing experience during the last flood brought by Typhoon Pepeng. The floods reached the rooftops killing two people.

They also lamented that the contractors provided only three small culverst between l00 meters to serve as outlets "not enough to hold volumes of water."

They said it would normally three to five days for floodwaters to recede, adding the situation, if not checked, would be much worse during floods.

saintm

October 12th, 2011, 05:00 PM

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Repost: What's Up Dagupan? (http://www.facebook.com/whatsupdagupan)

Did you know that...

On June 25, 1875, under a royal decree issued by King Alfonso XII of Spain, the required Inspector of Public Works of the Philippine Islands was requested to submit a railway system plan for Luzon. The plan, which was submitted five months later by Don Eduardo Lopez Navarro, was entitled Memoria Sobre el Plan General de Ferrocarriles en la Isla de Luzón, and was promptly approved. A concession for the construction of a railway line from Manila to Dagupan was granted to Don Edmundo Sykes of the Ferrocarril de Manila-Dagupan on June 1, 1887.

The Ferrocarril de Manila-Dagupan which constitutes much of the North Main Line today, began construction in July 1887 with the laying of the cornerstone for Tutuban station. The railway was 195 kilometers long at the time of its opening on November 24, 1892, running from Manila to Dagupan City in Pangasinan.

Photo: Passengers posing in front of the "Ferrocarril de Manila a Dagupan" (circa 1885).

http://www.facebook.com/whatsupdagupan
http://www.whatsupdagupan.info/

saintm

October 14th, 2011, 09:14 PM

philippineairspace.blogspot.com

Aquino Government unveils 5 year airport plans
Costing 60 Billion Pesos

October 7, 2011

Transportation Secretary Manuel A. Roxas II unveiled Thursday a five-year airport-infrastructure plan estimated to cost P60-billion ($1.6 billion US Dollars) design to rehabilitate, upgrade and modernize the country’s major airports nationwide.

Among the infrastructure plan is the completion of the P7.8 billion Laguindingan airport which is expected to open in 2013; followed by the 3.2 billion Daraga Airport to open in 2014 and the P8 billion Bohol airport to open in 2016.

Speaking before the Makati Business Club (MBC), The Secretary said that the Aquino government will put 12.4 billion pesos for Clark International Airport to transform it as premier gateway of the country together with the construction of 108 billion Naia-Clark Express Rail Link dubbed as the New North Rail Project (Northrail) to be funded by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). The High-speed NorthRail spans 100-kilometer from Centennial Terminal 2 to Clark International Airport in Pampanga, with a total travel time of 45 minutes.

Also on the pipeline is the construction of a new passenger terminal 2 at Mactan Cebu International Airport with a budget of P10.15 billion and the P1 billion new passenger terminal to be constructed in Tacloban airport.

DOTC has also set aside P2.07 billion for the rehabilitation of Naia terminals 1, 2 and 3 set for completion in 2014. Roxas said plans are under way to decongest NAIA through the reduction of corporate and air taxi flights by 50 percent of the current number of sorties during peak hours, construction of a rapid-exit taxiway to reduce runway occupancy time, and the transfer of noncommercial flights to Sangley Point.

Airports earmarked for massive upgrades are Kalibo International Airport with P3 billion budget for new passenger terminal building and airside facilities upgrade, P4.2 billion for Puerto Princesa Airport development project, and various airport upgrades nationwide with an P8 billion price tag. They include the airports of Laoag, Catarman, Ormoc, San Vicente, San Jose, Masbate, Borongan, Maasin, Butuan, Dipolog, Ozamiz, Pagadian, Cotabato, Davao, Zamboanga and Tawi-Tawi.

Meanwhile, five (5) new airports are going to be build in Pangasinan, Catarman, Negros Oriental, Bukidnon, and Sultan Kudarat.

Alaminos airport is already under construction earthworks in full swing, could it be another airport?

saintm

October 17th, 2011, 08:11 PM

New anti-flood projects up (http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/338063/morong-holds-fish-cook-fest)

DAGUPAN CITY — Several projects were lined-up by Pangasinan 4th District Rep. Gina de Venecia for the public after two typhoons that hit this city.

Expected for the first quarter of 2012 will be the construction and rehabilitation of the drainage system in Arellano Bani which is usually submerged in flood water during heavy rains; the cementing of the road shoulder from Dawel area to the Tanap bridge; drainage construction in Mayombo district from the junction in Perez Boulevard until Villaflor hospital; drainage rehabilitation of a section of Barangay Tapuac from Trauma hospital to Amado Street; and the Lucao-De Venecia highway. (Liezle Basa Iñigo)

saintm

October 18th, 2011, 03:36 PM

Manay Gina bares plans for P’sinan 4th district (http://thesessionhall.com/manay-gina-bares-plans-for-p%E2%80%99sinan-4th-district/)

After gracing the opening of the recently concluded Dagupan City 2nd Children’s Congress and Fair initiated by Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez and the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP), Pangasinan 4th District Representative Georgina “Manay Gina” de Venecia disclosed to teachers, students and legislators present in the event all her ongoing and future projects for the district.

In her speech, De Venecia mentioned the progress of House Bill 2142 entitled “An Act Upgrading the Minimum Salary Grade of Public School Teachers from Salary Grade 11 to 15” that she and her colleagues are pushing forward.

“Kahit po very limited ang pondo ng ating gobyerno, talagang kinakatok ko po lahat ng pintuan ng gobyerno para matulungan po ang ating distrito,” de Venecia said.

Also, with the construction of six new classrooms at East Central Integrated School, de Venecia said that eight classrooms will likewise be built, this time at Judge Jose de Venecia Senior Memorial National High School (JJDVSMNHS).

Alongside her school projects, the wife of former Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. has also announced that the construction of drainage systems at Dagupan City National High School, Barangays Bolosan, Bacayao Norte, Mamalingling, Herrero-Perez, Tambac, Tapuac and Malued will soon begin, adding that the ongoing P45-million road and drainage system construction at Bonuan Gueset will be finished by December.

The classroom construction and drainage system projects, according to de Venecia, were made possible with the aid of Fernandez and the SP.

Prior to these projects, the Fernandez and De Venecia had already agreed to allocate an amount from De Venecia’s Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) to cover the cost of rehabilitating a road in Pantal Centro which serves as the main road to Pantal Elementary School, through an SP resolution.

Last July, Fernandez and De Venecia had also distributed checks to four associations in the province for their livelihood programs. Each association receive P500,000.

On the other hand, in line with the celebration of the Breast Cancer Awareness Month, de Venecia expressed her plan of adopting a national health agenda for breast cancer. She added planning talks with the Department of Health (DOH) on the subsidization of chemotherapy costs for cancer patients.

De Venecia also disclosed that the government will soon release an additional P10-milliion fund for the construction of the dormitory of the first drug rehabilitation center in Regions 1, 2, 3 and the Cordillera Region.

The Congresswoman also said that her House Bill 3840, which aims to increase the bed capacity of Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC), authorize the increase of its medical personnel and upgrade its services and facilities and professional health care, is already underway. De Venecia added that with the passage of the bill, R1MC will be the largest hospital north of Manila.

saintm

October 19th, 2011, 04:07 PM

Pedestrian lanes in Dagupan to get a face-lift

by Alex Romeo R. Fernandez

DAGUPAN CITY, Oct. 19 (PIA) -- Old and faded, pedestrian lanes in this city are set to be repainted and new ones installed.

The sangguniang panlungsod on Monday approved Resolution No. R-4826 requesting Mayor Benjamin S. Lim to direct the city engineering office to “repaint the existing pedestrian lanes and to install advisory signage for anti-jaywalking in strategic areas in the city.”

Councilor Redford Christian P. Erfe-Mejia, public works and infrastructure committee chair, said the resolution aimed to strictly implement the anti-jaywalking ordinance to protect the life and limbs of pedestrians as well as to maximize the use of overpasses on Arellano St., and A. B. Fernandez Ave., and in barangay Tapuac.

Mejia said the renovation is needed as the lanes have worn out after years of use, while new ones have to be installed due to go along with the development of infrastructures and business.

http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=59927

koreanboy

October 25th, 2011, 03:03 PM

saintm

October 26th, 2011, 06:25 PM

PIA Press Release
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Pangasinan news: Tulong na DPWH kinerew parad dredging na ilog ed Dagupan

nen Danny O. Sagun

DAGUPAN CITY, Oktubre 26 -- Masyado lan atapew iray kailogan diad sayan syudad kanian kaukolan so tampol ya pampaaralem pian napaliisan so maganganon pakadelap, indanet nen Bise-Mayor Belen T. Fernandez ed sakey a radio interview.

Apaneknekan ed ginawan inspection na sangguniang panlungsod ed saray ilog nen Lunes ya tua so obserbasyon nen District Engineer Rodolfo Dion na second Pangasinan engineering district ya silted lan maong iray ilog kanian maganganon nadelap so syudad no panaoy mamauran tan lalo no bansagan na etab o high tide.

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http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r01&id=61112

saintm

October 27th, 2011, 08:54 PM

De Venecia announces project to solve Tapuac’s flooding

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

DAGUPAN CITY- The woes of residents in Brgy. Tapuac here who suffered perennial flooding might be over after Pangasinan Rep. Gina de Venecia announced recently a P16.5 million packages of flood control projects near Trauma Hospital & Specialist Center up to Amado Street.

Tapuac, particularly the entire stretch of Amado, has been vulnerable to floods.

Meanwhile, de Venecia has allotted P147 million for the construction of five major road and drainage system projects in the city, the first of which is in Bonuan Gueset to be completed in December this year.

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http://northwatch.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/de-venecia-announces-project-to-solve-tapuac%E2%80%99s-flooding/

saintm

October 29th, 2011, 10:10 AM

Pangasinan news: Buwis na road users, dugay lalaen to –DPWH

nen Venus H. Sarmiento

DAGUPAN CITY, Oct. 27 (PIA) -– Inpurek nen Sekretaryo Rogelio Singson na Department of Public Works and Highways ya oosaren ed duga so nakokolekta na ahensya ya ‘road user’s tax.’

Oosaren so buwis parad ‘preventive maintenenance’ na saray karsada, dalanay totoo (pedestrian lanes and overpass) tan balon silew ed saray angkakabaleg ya karsada, kuanto.

Inyarom nen Singson ya ag nepeg ya mapaga iray totoo ta duga so lalaen tonian buwis ya babayaran da.

Baleg so tulong tonia ed panagmintina na marakep tan arawid peligro ya karsada tan dalanan.

[..]

http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r01&id=61417

saintm

October 29th, 2011, 11:40 PM

Re-regulating Pond of San Roque Multipurpose Dam U/V by China Agro-Machinery Corporation (CAMCI) (2013)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zgiAnrcqZ3s/TqusBj0ZgVI/AAAAAAAAANY/B5c0jSflSaA/s400/Region%2B1%2BCIA%2Bpresident%2BOftociano%2BManalo%252C%2BAbono%2Bcahir%2BRosendo%2BSo%252C%2Bfroerm%2B5th%2Bdist%2Brep%2BMark%2BCojuangco%2Band%2BNIA%2Bengr..JPG
Region 1 Confederation of Irrigators Association President Oftociano Manalo Jr, Abono Party-list Chairman Rosendo So and former Pangasinan 5th Dist Rep. Mark Cojaungco get a briefing on the capacity of the Re-regulating Pond from NIA ARIIP Quality Control Engr. Jesus Dimalanta and project Engr. Vic Valle.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3ZelYjvc2JI/TqusMWtLIWI/AAAAAAAAANk/tk_zMgM2Dm8/s400/re-regulating%2Bpond%2Bwork%2Bin%2Bprogress.JPG
The 85 hectare re-regulating pond under construction in San Roque is being supervised by NIA ARIIP and will irrigate approximately 35,000 hectares of palay farms in Pangasinan especially during the dry season.

http://pangasinanrepublic.blogspot.com/2011/10/visit-reregulating-pond.html?zx=646371ebf41500f1

saintm

November 2nd, 2011, 12:12 PM

300 trees to be ‘sacrificed’ for road project

Philippine Daily Inquirer
10:52 pm | Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

DAGUPAN CITY—More than 300 trees on MacArthur Highway spanning Binalonan and Sison towns in Pangasinan would either be cut, pruned or transferred to make way for a road-widening project, an environment official said.

Leduina Co, provincial environment and natural resources officer, said the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) have conducted an inventory and identified 321 trees that have been marked for cutting (marked with “X”) and pruning (marked with “P”).

Co, however, clarified that a permit has yet to be issued for the tree cutting.
These trees are considered premium species. They include mahogany and narra, some of which are 100 years old, she said.

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http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/86619/300-trees-to-be-%E2%80%98sacrificed%E2%80%99-for-road-project

tyronne

November 3rd, 2011, 03:27 AM

300 trees to be ‘sacrificed’ for road project

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/86619/300-trees-to-be-%E2%80%98sacrificed%E2%80%99-for-road-project

Kaya tagpi-tagpi rin yung widening sa Tarlac kasi yung mga old trees. Sana pag pinutol nila eh mapalitan din.

Christian_123

November 4th, 2011, 02:11 PM

Instead na patayin ang puno, bakit hinde nila tree bail un mga puno? I bail nila tapos ilipat sa ibang lugar...

koreanboy

November 8th, 2011, 02:24 PM

karamihan ba na puno eh acacia,naku mahirap nang ilipat yan...siguro palitan na lang ng Pine tree..para dagdag attraction sa mga dumadaan ng hi-way..

koreanboy

November 15th, 2011, 02:08 PM

Posted on November 13, 2011 - Filed Under Inside News, News | Comments Off

THE Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is now studying the request of Mayor Benjamin Lim for financial assistance for dredging projects in various parts of Dagupan’s rivers.

DPWH Assistant Secretary for Planning Maria Catalina said the request has been referred to the concerned agency for possible consideration.

The planned dredging will be undertaken at the Binmaley-Dagupan City River, Capampogan River Control Project at Binmaley-Dagupan City River sections, Pantal River Control Project and the Pantal River itself, and the DPWH-PMO Major Flood Control and Drainage Project.

Lim requested a budget of about P27.5 million, with endorsement from the PMO-Agno Flood Control System.

In his letter, Lim stressed the need to dredge the rivers to correct the heavy siltation “that has resulted from the continuous inflow of sediments from the upper Agno River, the gradual erosion of our riverbanks, and the excessive use of feeds in fish pens and fish cages in the past.”

Lim, despite having earlier pointed to the construction of the Jose De Venecia Extension Highway as among the culprits in the worsening flooding problem of the city, acknowledged that “as the riverbeds have become shallow, our rivers easily overflow in times of heavy rains, invariably causing floods and loss of lives, properties and economic opportunities.” (with report from CIO)
http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2011/11/13/city-seeks-help-to-dredge-rivers/

saintm

December 7th, 2011, 05:31 AM

Calasiao bridge to be rebuilt (http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/343507/aquino-tarlac-belen-awards)
December 3, 2011, 6:05pm

CALASIAO, Pangasinan — Engr. Marieta Mendoza, officer-in-charge (OIC) of this Engineering District, revealed Saturday that the P91-million Villamil Bridge construction project here will push through this month after being delayed by the onslaught of back-to-back typhoons “Pedring” and “Quiel” last October.

The Spain-assisted project under the Foundation Specialist Contractor will address the problem of the dilapidated bridge which, Mendoza said, is over 50 years old. She said the construction materials and equipment will arrive on Monday, ahead of the groundbreaking ceremony on December 12 to be led by Mayor Mark Roy Macanlalay. (Liezle Basa Iñigo)

saintm

December 7th, 2011, 05:37 PM

BSL seeks experts' assistance to solve city’s flooding problem

Dagupan City – Mayor Benjamin S. Lim has stressed the importance of zonification as one way of protecting the environment and prevent floodings here.
Lim recently held a meeting with Public Works Second Engineering District Chief Rodolfo Dion together with former City Engineer Alfredo G. Tangco, barangay officials of Tapuac, Lucao and Malued, and other stakeholders to find ways in solving the city’s worsening flooding problem.
“We are all guilty of not caring for our environment. Technically, nagkulang din ang gobyerno ta aga nan-strikto ed zonification," Lim pointed out.
He asked: Should we continue to allow these mistakes and let ithem happened again?
"We should not take this lightly. That is why it is very important that we give importance to our zonification plans,” he said , adding that "we are losing some of our water ways, which are no longer in existence due to massive land conversion that causes flooding in some barangays here."
“It is also noteworthy that, indeed, Dagupan is sinking because of liquefaction and the pumping of water underneath, which contributes to the sinking of the city every year by two to three centimeters,” said Lim.
The same view was shared by Tangco and offered some solutions to these problems.
Tangco said the best way is for the city government to conduct a topographical survey of Dagupan City to pinpoint where the water could go and whether the creeks that were there before are already occupied or not.
“Then let us study what kind of drainage system we will have and re-designed the existing ones. Let us estimate how much we need to spend for these projects and prioritize the more significant ones in accordance with our financial condition,” he added.
Lim, thinking of the importance of a topographical survey as suggested, was quick to reply by saying, “by all means we will do that no matter how it cost. I think may kalalabasan tayo dito.”
Lucao Punong Barangay Liberato Solano, Malued,Punong Barangay; Rosendo Tamayo and Tapuac Barangay Chair Jake Reyes, and City Engineer Virginia Rosario agreed with the mayor's statements.
To resolve the flooding problem of the three barangays, Lim requested the DPWH office to make a survey on the possibility of making a man-made waterway as the city is willing to buy some private properties, which will serve as a waterway going towards the Calmay River. (CIO – Joseph C. Bacani)

https://www.facebook.com/notes/d-dagupan-dream/bsl-seeks-experts-assistance-to-solve-citys-flooding-problem/283251241712542

berdee

December 7th, 2011, 06:39 PM

Kamusta na ang paggawa sa Alaminos Airport...sana maganda ang terminal na gagawin pagmagiging international standard na...

Pangasinan deserves an international Airport

nayki

December 8th, 2011, 07:25 AM

Kaya tagpi-tagpi rin yung widening sa Tarlac kasi yung mga old trees. Sana pag pinutol nila eh mapalitan din.

grabeh trafic ngayon sa tarlac city dahil sa road work na yan... sana mailis nila matapos...hayz

tyronne

December 8th, 2011, 11:18 PM

^^Sinabi mo. Every Friday umuuwi ako, sa Tarlac City lang, mahigit isang oras. Sigh...

saintm

December 9th, 2011, 10:10 AM

^^^yea pero napasin nyo po ba grabe ang mga projects ngayon sa tarlac ang dami dahil si penoy ang president, ganyan talaga weather weather lang, last time sa pampanga.. this time sa tarlac naman umuulan ng projects hehehe

saintm

December 9th, 2011, 10:17 AM

Lokal ya gobyerno na Lingayen planon ipaapeger so wet market da

DAGUPAN CITY - Plano natan na lokal ya gobyerno na Lingayen ya ipaapeger so wet market da.

Unon ed kinen Arthur Ferrer Market Supervisor na baley ya Lingayen plano dan paguen so pigaran parte tonya nilang partikular la so tiles na lugar lalo la ed pantatapewan na ilalakon sira tan ya ilalako ed lugar.

Kwanto met ya regular dan pan babagaaan so saray meat tan fish vendors ya linisan so saray tiles na pantatapewan na saray lako balet pigara ed sikara et anggapoy pibabali tan manmamaliw ya pasaway.

Inyarum to met ya daan la so saray tiles katon nepeg la iyan salatan.

http://www.bomboradyo.com/news/regional-news/pangasinan/88157-lokal-ya-gobyerno-na-lingayen-planon-ipaapeger-so-wet-market-da

saintm

December 10th, 2011, 10:57 AM

On road to Baguio, a ‘chainsaw massacre’ of acacia trees
CARMELA G. LAPEÑA, GMA News December 5, 2011

Massacre photos are spreading on the Internet.

Stately acacia trees in Pangasinan lining the road to Baguio are being felled, outraging social media users who have seen photos posted by travellers.

Lizza Nakpil was on her way up to Baguio on November 27 when she counted 20 to 30 trees marked with the bright orange P, which stands for "putol" or cut. Upset, she called her friend Gang Badoy who was still in Baguio and asked her to take photos and blog about it.

One of the photos shows a notice to the public, which states that the “removal/cutting of trees affected by the rehabilitation/reconstruction/upgrading along Manila North Road, Urdaneta City is hereby authorized by DENR [Department of Environment and Natural Resources].”

Badoy said she asked one of the men standing by what the bright orange P stood for. When he said he didn't know, she asked if it meant "putol" and his face lit up as he nodded yes.

"I noticed a whole stretch of old acacias lined up like they were in a concentration camp with numbers to keep track of how many they've killed," said Badoy, who observed that the trees did not appear like they were going to be balled.

The DENR so far has declined to comment. .

Baguio resident Kidlat De Guia said that on trips up or down, the tree cutters sometimes have to stop traffic as they cut bigger parts, or when some branches fall and they have to clear them off the road. He recalled that a couple of years ago, some environmental groups painted silhouettes of people hugging trees in an effort to raise awareness and try to save them.

http://64.19.142.10/www8.gmanews.tv/webpics/v3/2011/12/cuttinginaction.jpg_hyuncompressed
Traffic stops as trees fall on the road to Baguio. Gang Badoy

Badoy posted her tree massacre photos in a blog entry "The Sad Drive Down from Baguio."

A better way to do it

Badoy said that while she understands the benefits of a wider road, she thinks there must be a better way to do it. "I've seen widened roads but the trees were kept, like say they become an island in the middle of the road. It also helps delineate the lanes," she said. Admitting that she is not an expert, Badoy said that her blog post is more of a question.

"Is this really the price of road widening? There must be some technology or creativity... I just want to know if this is really the only way. If they have plans to replant and can give a projected illustration maybe, I'd like to know about it. Kung wala naman, is there something we can do about it? Is there another way to not make progress the enemy?" she asked.

http://64.19.142.13/www8.gmanews.tv/webpics/v3/2011/12/roadwider_picnik.jpg_hyuncompressed
Perhaps there are better solutions. Gang Badoy

Badoy also said that another goal is to make people aware. "It's for the people who regularly ply that route to notice it. We're not always conscious, we take the trees for granted," said Badoy, who also notes that if the problem is that it will take too much effort, perhaps private citizens can participate. "It's not impossible, it just takes more time," she said.

"If the private citizen is aware and making some noise, then the local government will take notice and maybe they can work with the DENR for better solutions to road widening," she said.

http://64.19.142.11/www8.gmanews.tv/webpics/v3/2011/12/treelinedroad.jpg
Perhaps there are better solutions. Gang Badoy

Nakpil, who posted one of the photos on Facebook, said her goal is for the government to rethink cutting the trees down.

"Maybe they can give up one foot of the highway. It was just a few months ago that Dagupan, Pampanga and Tarlac were under water. They might think it's just 20 to 30 trees but that's where it starts. It's not just aesthetics, it's also about ecological balance," she said. –KG/HS, GMA News

saintm

December 10th, 2011, 10:58 AM

http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/34061755.jpg

saintm

December 11th, 2011, 04:42 PM

Villamil Bridge rehab underway in Calasiao town

by Venus H. Sarmiento
CALASIAO, Pangasinan, Dec. 11 (PIA) -- The 50-year old Villamil bridge in this town is set for rehabilitation for the safety of commuters and motorists as part of the national government’s undertaking to upgrade the region’s infrastructure facilities.

The 3rd Engineering District of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) said the P90 million national fund for its re-construction is now ready.

District Engineer Marietta Mendoza said the daily activities in the bridge weakened its foundations thus the need for the rehabilitation to avoid accidents.

Mendoza said commuters could use the three kilometer San Vicente–Pogo detour road while the construction is going on. “May dagdag lang na five minutes (ang biyahe),” she said.

The construction was earlier set for November 25 but was delayed because posts of telephone companies and tubes of the water district are situated near the bridge. They are now re-located 30-40 meters away from the construction site, according to Cecille Estrada, engineer, of the DPWH.

The 100-meter Villamil bridge in barangay Poblacion connects Calasiao town to other parts of Central Pangasinan. (JCR/VHS-PIA 1 Pangasinan)

http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=67589

saintm

December 11th, 2011, 06:44 PM

PHL’s biggest irrigation project seen to be completed ahead of schedule :banana:

SUNDAY, 11 DECEMBER 2011 19:04 ORLY GUIRAO / CORRESPONDENT

ROSALES, Pangasinan— At the speed Chinese engineers are moving earth, rocks, cement and steel, the completion of the country’s biggest irrigation project is expected to come way, way ahead of schedule.

Already, since China Camce Engineering Co. Ltd. actually started work early last year on the 86-hectare re-regulating pond of the San Roque multipurpose dam in San Manuel, Pangasinan, considered the biggest hydroelectric power dam facility in Asia, 81 percent of the job has been finished.

The Chinese firm which won the bidding at a contract price of $93.8 million, went on three-work shifts immediately after laying the pond’s sprawling foundation, said Reynaldo Mencias, project manager of the Agno River Integration Irrigation Program (ARIIP).

“The Chinese engineers are all young, full of vitality and work on precision,” Mencias noted, as he pointed out that the accomplishment exceeds the expected target of 76 percent for the period.

“A little over $72 million has already been pumped into the project,” the ARIIP chief said.

Barring any untoward incidents, the big pond will start service operations in time with the main palay cropping season n June next year, Mencias said.

Mainly funded by a soft loan of $89.1 million with China Export-Import Bank, the commissioning of the re-regulating pond is expected to increase crop yield and cropping intensity by 150 percent with the full irrigation of 34,450 hectares of farmlands on opposite banks of the Agno River.

In cadence with the engineering works on the pond, ARIIP is rushing up the rehabilitation of 67.06 kilometers of existing main irrigation canals, along with 327.85 kilometers of lateral canals.

Some 280 kilometers of farm-to-market roads are also in simultaneous rehabilitation works in anticipation of the increased farming activities within ARIIP’s service area covering 28,207 farm families in 18 towns of Pangasinan.

At a total cost of P11.2 billion, ARIIP as an irrigation component of the San Roque multipurpose dam started in November 2006. The project is expected to go on full-swing services on or before December 2013 with the completion of rehabilitation works on all of ARIIP’s facilities.

According to Mencias, the rehabilitation of the irrigation system is funded by the national government at an estimated cost of P4.1 billion.

“As a reservoir, the re-regulating pond augments the dam’s flood prevention component as it will store 5 million cubic meters of water siphoned from the main dam structure,” Mencias said, as he stressed that the stored volume of water will be released for irrigation via the pond’s sluice way at an average of 560 cu. meter per second.

With the reservoir, the provincial government intends to siphon water from the facility to solve a water crisis now gripping households in 20 coastal towns of the province.

Provincial Administrator Rafael Baraan said a memorandum of agreement signed recently with the National Irrigation Administration will allow the flow of at least five cu. cm. of water from the reservoir to the Pangasinan Bulk Water Supply Project which the provincial government has committed to build.

Under the scheme, the siphoned water will be rationed out to houses in towns and cities whose deep wells are now fast drying up and severely affected by salt-water intrusion.

But on top of everything, Mencias said the reservoir will be a stable source of water needed in palay production, vegetable growing and root-crop farming.

http://businessmirror.com.ph/component/content/article/53-agri-commodities/20517-phls-biggest-irrigation-project-seen-to-be-completed-ahead-of-schedule

saintm

December 15th, 2011, 05:35 PM

Tacurong City gets P3M incentive for road infra

By Anna Valmero

TACURONG CITY, SULTAN KUDARAT—Tacurong received the P3 million in incentive from the P500 million performance challenge fund announced by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) early this year.
Mayor Lina Montilla welcomed the amount as additional budget for the city’s social services projects after it was awarded the “Seal of Good Housekeeping” by DILG in June.

The technical working group of Tacurong implemented the road concreting in Barangay Upper Katungal as the project for the performance challenge fund and completed 40 percent of the project in October.

Under DILG’s guidelines, the city government is required to complete at least 40 percent of the project before receiving the performance challenge fund, said DILG Undersecretary Austere Panadero.

Tacurong is the only city from Mindanao belonging to the fourth to sixth class category that received the award this year. Other awardees for the city category include Alaminos in Pangasinan, Candon in Ilocos Sur, Passi in Iloilo, and Vigan in Ilocos Sur.

The Seal of Good Housekeeping is a mechanism that recognizes LGUs with good performance in internal housekeeping, particularly in the areas of planning, fiscal management, transparency and accountability.

“Fourth to sixth class municipalities are expected to be active in their participation for the performance challenge because an additional P1 million to P3 million in their budget would mean more development funds,” Panadero said.

About 90 percent of the internal revenue allotments (IRA) of most lower-income municipalities are often allocated for salaries alone, leaving fewer funds for development projects.

Tacurong City was evaluated in May, particularly because of its compliance with the Anti-Red Tape Act as well as to the Full Disclosure Policy of the DILG, which mandates LGUs to post their budget spending at websites and bulletin boards accessible to constituents.

http://loqal.ph/nation-and-world/2011/12/12/tacurong-city-gets-p3m-incentive-for-road-infra/

saintm

December 16th, 2011, 10:02 PM

New bridge to begin construction by next year

Saturday, December 17, 2011

CALASIAO, Pangasinan -- Authorities said construction of a new bridge that will replace the 50-year-old Villamil bridge may begin by January next year.

The new two-lane bridge will be 7.3 meters wide and will be supported by two concrete abutments and three piers. It will also have four steel girders at every 25 meters.

The Centunion Modular Steel Girder Bridge will also replace the existing 9-span, 92.92-meter long bridge.

Situated right by Marusay river along Mancup-Poblacion road, the Villamil bridge serves as an alternate route between Metro Manila and other eastern towns of Pangasinan. It also connects Calasiao to Malasiqui and San Carlos City.

Closure of the Villamil bridge is still being finalized by the public works central office, said District Engineer Marietta Mendoza of the Department of Public Works and Highways 3rd Engineering Sub-district.

As requested by local officials, construction might start early January 2012, Mendoza said.

Groundbreaking and lowering of the time capsule were held Friday morning near the bridge with Pangasinan third district Representative Rachel Arenas leading the ceremonies.

The construction of the new bridge and its approaches is a Spanish government-assisted DPWH Bridge Construction/Replacement Project. The contract amount of the 100-meter long bridge and its approaches is P89,221,394.64.

"Ito yong ating pinakahihintay. The construction of the new Villamil bridge will now become a reality through the initiative of Congresswoman Arenas. We assure the contractor (Foundation Specialist) that the local government unit will give its full support to ensure the smooth implementation of the project," she stated.

Arenas said she started requesting for this project from the national government two years ago.

"Long overdue na yong replacement ng bridge. It’s been a continuous follow-up. Nagpapasalamat ako kay President Benigno Aquino Jr., kay DPWH Secretary Rogelio Singson and to the people who helped me make it a reality," Arenas said. (Liway C. Manantan-Yparraguirre)

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pangasinan/local-news/2011/12/17/new-bridge-begin-construction-next-year-196205

saintm

January 10th, 2012, 09:42 PM

No date yet for closure of Pangasinan bridge

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

CALASIAO, Pangasinan – The National Government has yet to issue an advisory regarding the date of the closure of the Villamil bridge, which will soon be replaced by a new structure.

Mayor Mark Roy Macanlalay, who is expecting the construction of a new bridge to replace the 50-year-old structure that links the town proper to eastern barangays, said the local government is still awaiting an advisory from the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) through the 3rd Engineering Sub-district located in Sta. Barbara town.

The bridge is a major link to the towns of Malasiqui and Bayambang, down to Camiling, Tarlac.

Instead of providing eight jeepneys -- which will transport affected commuters for free -- the DPWH will only be able to give two, the local government said.

These free rides are seen as alternatives to the supposed footbridge that was included in the funds to build the new bridge.

The construction of a new Villamil bridge was an initiative of third district Representative Rachel Arenas.

She said the construction of the Villamil bridge and its approaches is a Spanish government-assisted DPWH Bridge Construction/Replacement Project. The contract amount of the 100-meter long bridge and its approaches is P89,221,394.64.

It will replace the existing nine-span bridge with a total length of 92.92 meters that is situated in Marusay river along Mancup-Poblacion road.

Most affected in the closure of the bridge will be students of Calasiao Central School, Calasiao Comprehensive National High School, and Philippine College of Science and Technology, all located at Poblacion. (Liway C. Manantan-Yparraguirre/Sunnex)

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pangasinan/local-news/2012/01/11/no-date-yet-closure-pangasinan-bridge-199880

saintm

January 16th, 2012, 05:46 AM

Construction of International Shipping Port in Pangasinan 32% complete

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SAN FERNANDO, La Union, Jan. 16 (PNA) — The Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) said construction of first phase of the Sual International Shipping Port, within the existing Sual Port in Pangasinan, is already 32 percent complete.

PPA Region 1 Director Silverio Mangaoang said the first phase of the project, financed from an initial P90 million allocated by PPA, is set for completion by the end of this year or probably by November.

The project, comprising of three phases, set for completion in two to three years.

The whole project, costing P500 million, to be shared by the Pangasinan provincial government led by Governor Amado Espino Jr. and the Sual municipal government led by Mayor John Rodney Arcinue.

Based on the agreement signed by the three in 2010, PPA will allocate P200 million for the project, another P200 million from the Pangasinan provincial government and P100 million from the Sual municipal government.

Mangaoang said construction of the project is now going smoothly soon after the acquisition of the needed right of way from a private landowner.

However, he said that when the first phase of the project is completed, the same can already be used to accommodate small ships, including barges and LCTs (Landing Craft Tanks).

First phase of the project consists of a rock causeway and a wharf that extends from 200 to 270 meters.

Mangaoang said the project is an international shipping port as the existing port of Sual is actually a port of entry.

Upon its completion in 2014 or 2015, it will be manned by personnel of agencies, like the PPA, Bureau of Customs, Philippine Coast Guard and others.

He said the international port will among others help the province of Pangasinan export its many products, including minerals, adding that even to date, a company is planning to export magnetized sand mined from different parts of the province.

This will help the province export its other mineral products, like chrome ore, manganese and nickel and also in the importation of agricultural products, like fertilizers, from abroad.

With the international port, the cost of fertilizers being sold to Pangasinan farmers may be reduced.

Admitting that the project has only very limited area to date, Mangaoang said that PPA intends to reclaim around from five hectares more near as an expansion area of the international port

He said he was informed that Governor Espino is already readying a complementary economic zone near the international port to accommodate foreign investors that will manufacture products intended to be exported abroad. (PNA)

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&nid=2&rid=398445

saintm

January 19th, 2012, 12:27 PM

Solon assures Congress’ support for road networks in North PHL

by Lito Dar
BAGUIO CITY, Jan. 18 (PIA) -- “Rest assured that we, your representatives in Congress, are doing our best to complete the road networks in North Philippines especially here in Cordillera.”
This was said by Mountain Province Congressman Maximo Dalog Sr., chairman of Congress’ Special Committee North Luzon Growth Quadrangle (NLGQA), during the recent Regional Tourism Congress spearheaded by the Department of Tourism.
According to Dalog, it is the mission of the government that by 2013, all primary roads here in Cordillera shall have been paved and all secondary roads to follow by 2016.
Dalog said North Luzon lawmakers or the so called ‘Solid North’ in Congress are all united in pushing for the development of Northern Philippines. He explained that North Quad has jurisdiction on matters, policies and programs concerning the development of municipalities, cities, provinces and other local communities in the North Luzon area, as well as other actions to promote growth and expand avenues of economic cooperation.
“One matter that North Quad has been taking up relates to the infrastructure support program of the government particularly to support the development of the area, including the tourism sector,” Dalog stressed.
He reported that one infra project they are currently monitoring is the TPLEX or the Tarlac-Pangasinan- La Union expressway, which will connect the North Luzon Expressways from Tarlac City up Rosario, La Union right in the mouth of Kennon road under phase 1. The project’s phase II will extend the expressway farther north up to Bacnotan, La Union.
The project, if completed, will boost tourism promotion in the north Luzon area.
Some of the North Quad completed projects reported by Dalog is the cementing of road from Tagudin, Ilocos Sur to Cervantes and the Baguio – Ambuklao – Aritao road.
For on-going projects, Dalog reported the concreting of roads from the boundary of Mountain Province with that of Ilocos Sur up to Bontoc, Mountain Province which they hope to be finished this 2012, and the other route that would connect Mountain Province to Cervantes, Ilocos Sur by 2013.
Dalog called on all the tourism congress participants to support the government in such endeavor. “Let us continue to support one another and help each other make Cordillera the number one tourist destination in this part of the country, ” Dalog said. (JDP/LD-PIA CAR)

http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=73159

saintm

January 21st, 2012, 10:56 AM

P61.7B allotted to attain food staple sufficiency, build more infrastructure

WITH an increased budget this year, the Department of Agriculture (DA) will vigorously pursue initiatives to attain sufficiency in major staples by 2013 that include rice, white corn, cassava, and other basic commodities.
In his 2011 year-end report, Agriculture Secretary Proceso J. Alcala said a big chunk of the DA’s 2012 budget of P61.73 billion will be spent to implement the Food Staples Sufficiency Program (FSSP), which is the centerpiece program of the Aquino administration.
An important feature of the FSSP is the frontloading of investments, particularly on infrastructure like irrigation, farm-to-market roads, and postharvest facilities.
“We hope to regain momentum in irrigation, with particular focus on cheaper and shorter gestating small-scale irrigation system,” Secretary Alcala said.
The DA, through the National Irrigation Administration (NIA), with an approved budget of P24.5 billion for 2012, will construct new irrigation systems, and restore and rehabilitate existing ones, servicing a total of 224,850 hectares, broken down as: new areas - 87,405 has; rehabilitated areas - 79,246 has; and restored - 57,199 has.
For its part, the DA’s Bureau of Soils and Water Management will spend P500 million to construct 4,584 small-scale irrigation projects that include: 1,283 shallow tube wells, 75 small water reservoirs, 56 small water impounding projects and 3,130 spring development.
For postharvest and other infrastructure, the DA has allotted a budget of P11.28 billion. This will be spent to construct 2,777 drying, storage and processing facilities, and 4,526 units of dryers, storage and milling equipment, including dairy equipment and machineries.
The DA will also construct major agri-fishery trading centers such as in La Trinidad, Benguet; Urdaneta, Pangasinan; San Jose, Camarines Sur; and in Argao, Cebu.
For banner or commodity programs, the DA will spend a total of P11.35 billion, broken down as: P6.2 billion for rice; P951 million - corn; P1.3 billion - high-value crops; P1 billion - livestock; and P1.9 billion – fisheries.
To hasten the transport of farm and fishery products from production areas, the DA in partnership with local government units will construct and rehabilitate more than P5 billion worth of farm-to-market roads (FMRs), totaling 1,284 kilometers, under foreign-assisted and locally-funded projects.
“We have redesigned FMRs so that at least 50 percent of the budget goes to concreting critical road sections. This would ensure that the roads do not disappear after a flood,” said Secretary Alcala.
“We want to make sure that we do not only build roads and dams. We should build them better. Monitor them more closely, and ensure that they serve the purpose for which they were built,” said Alcala, who is a civil engineer by profession. [PNA]

http://edgedavao.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5813:p617b-allotted-to-attain-food-staple-sufficiency-build-more-infrastructure&catid=37:agri-trends&Itemid=71

saintm

January 24th, 2012, 01:23 PM

Gov’t to sacrifice 300 trees to widen highway in Pangasinan
Philippine Daily Inquirer
10:13 pm | Friday, January 20th, 2012

BAGUIO CITY—The government will sacrifice at least 300 trees for a road-widening project in eastern Pangasinan where dozens of trees had been killed earlier, according to officials, prompting an environmental group to appeal for the trees to be relocated instead of cut.
The Save the Trees Coalition, which is based in Pampanga, has appealed to Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to resort to earth-balling the trees, which entails transferring them to another area favorable for growth.
Emmanuel Diaz, public works district engineer in eastern Pangasinan, said an inventory by the DPWH showed at least 800 fully grown mahogany, gmelina, narra, acacia, fire trees and assorted fruit trees are on the path of the planned road expansion on MacArthur Highway from the town of Villasis to Sison.
Many of these would be cut, he said.
Fernando Estrada, community environment and natural resources officer (Cenro) in Urdaneta City, said more than 1,000 trees are along the highway.
He said his office has yet to be informed of the actual number of trees that would be cut, but that he was sure it would exceed 300.
The inventory will be completed by the end of January and will be submitted to Environment Secretary Ramon Paje, who would issue the permit to cut trees.
Of the 321 trees that had been marked for death earlier, 256 had been cut. The trees were estimated to be between 25 to 30 years old.
Estrada said the trunks of the killed trees were deposited at the division office of the Department of Education in Binalonan town and the Cenro office in Urdaneta City.
Officials of Binalonan and Pozzorubio towns and police have also requested to be given trunks.
In Central Luzon, DPWH has applied permits to kill trees on segments of the MacArthur Highway in Tarlac for the highway’s expansion.
Ricardo Calderon, DENR regional director, said the DPWH request is pending at the DENR’s central office.
Calderon said he was in a workshop on Thursday and could not immediately say how many trees are due to be felled along MacArthur Highway.
Loreta Malaluan, chief of the regional DPWH construction division, confirmed the request for permits to cut trees. She, however, could not say how many trees would be killed.
DPWH has been widening and building canals along the highway from Paniqui to Moncada, Tarlac City to Gerona and Bamban to Capas since the last quarter of 2011.
In a previous campaign against tree-cutting for highway projects, environmental groups painted human figures on trees to try to convince government officials and workers to stop cutting these.
Some environmental activists fighting logging in the country’s denuded forests have also resorted to planting nails into tree trunks to stop loggers from cutting these. The nails are supposed to destroy the blades of chainsaws.
In this city, organizers said at least 3,000 took part in a rally to denounce plans by the country’s biggest mall developer to relocate up to 100 pine trees for an expansion plan that had been given the go signal by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and other agencies of government.
A plan by SM to transfer the trees by earth-balling to another site came under fire long after the mall developer had secured all the permits it needed to remove the trees from Luneta Hill to build a bigger mall and parking space that SM said adhere to its commitment to protect the environment while generating jobs and businesses.
President Aquino has issued an executive order banning commercial logging nationwide but tree-cutting continues in many parts of the country, including the Sierra Madre mountain range where environmental activists have received threats from logging operators. Yolanda Sotelo, Inquirer Northern Luzon; with reports from Tonette Orejas, Inquirer Central Luzon
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/131605/gov%E2%80%99t-to-sacrifice-300-trees-to-widen-highway-in-pangasinan

saintm

January 25th, 2012, 07:22 AM

From Airlines, Airplanes, and Airports Thread 32

Gokongwei Group eyes 4 airport projects
By Iris C. Gonzales, The Philippine Star
Posted at 01/24/2012 7:25 AM | Updated as of 01/24/2012 12:08 PM

MANILA, Philippines - The Gokongwei Group’s JG Summit Holdings Inc. said it is interested in four airport projects the government plans to bid out under its Public Private Partnership (PPP) program.

In a chance interview with reporters, JG Summit president and chief operating officer Lance Gokongwei said the company is set to look into the terms of reference for the four airport projects up for bidding under the Aquino administration’s flagship infrastructure program.

These are the P4.6-billion Puerto Princesa Airport; the P8.7-billion Laguindingan Airport development in Cagayan de Oro; the P6.6-billion New Legaspi Airport development and the P2.5-billion Mactan-Cebu International Airport terminal building expansion.

“We have to look at the terms of reference. We have to consider the bid terms. We haven’t done that,” Gokongwei said.

He said even Terminal 3 of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) would be considered if the government puts this on the auction block.

“We will consider that, too,” Gokongwei said.

Cebu Pacific, the conglomerate’s airline unit, operates at NAIA Terminal 3.

The government earlier announced plans to privatize the operation and maintenance of the NAIA Terminal 3 and the Diosdado Macapagal International Airport in Clark.Other airport-related ventures include the P9.9-billion New Zamboanga Airport development; the P6.9-billion Panglao Airport; P5.5-billion Laoag International Airport upgrading; P4.7-billion Alaminos Airport development and the P3-billion City Air Terminal Development for Clark International Airport.

Gokongwei said they expect to receive P8 billion in recurring income from their core operating businesses and investments by 2012.

He said the holding firm would continue to post strong growth and cash-generating abilities.

JG Summit, he said, is expected to receive cash dividends amounting to $58 million from Universal Robina Corp. (URC), its food and beverage unit; $28 million from budget carrier Cebu Pacific; $21 million from property subsidiary Robinsons Land Corp. and $12 million from international investment arm United Industrial Corp. Ltd.

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/01/23/12/gokongwei-group-eyes-4-airport-projects

saintm

January 25th, 2012, 03:43 PM

P76-M flood control project completed in Pangasinan by April

SAN FABIAN, Pangasinan, Jan. 25 (PNA) - A multi-million peso anti-flood project is set for completion in central Pangasinan in April.

This covers the construction of the protective slope and nine spur dikes of the Bued River in Barangay Binday here, worth P76 million.

The project is intended to protect San Fabian and Binday from erosion and flood during the rainy season.

Rep. Gina de Venecia (4th Dist. Pangasinan) has worked out the additional budget of P36 million for the project with the Department of Public Works and Highways.

De Venecia noted the old dike protecting Binday from the waters of the Bued River had been washed out during typhoon Pepeng in 2009.

The P36 million was in addition to the P40 million she poured into the project from her Priority Development Assistance Fund.

She said since the old dike was washed out, flood occurred yearly in Binday, already causing the devastation of over 50 hectares of agricultural lands in the village.

De Venecia considers the project, a protective slope and nine spur dikes, as the first line of defense of Binday against floods.

Up next for bidding is the construction of the P11 million Rabon Bridge, with the construction of irrigation canals in Binday, Anonang, Mabilao, Lipit-Tomeeng and Palapad worth P25 million.

Prior to these projects, 37 farm to market roads, costing P54.5 million, were constructed in 34 barangays of San Fabian. (PNA)

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&nid=2&rid=400671

[nightfury]

January 25th, 2012, 03:49 PM

Sual International Port Construction Underway
Posted on January 22, 2012 - Filed Under Headlines, News

CONSTRUCTION of the Sual International Shipping Port is now in full swing.

The first phase, which will be able to accommodate small ships, including barges and LCTs (Landing Craft Tanks), is targetted for completion by the end of the year.
Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) Region 1 Director Silverio Mangaoang said the first of the three- phase project is already 32 percent done as of last week.
The various phases of the port operations are set for completion in two to three years.
The first phase is financed from an initial P90 million allocated by PPA.
Mangaoang said construction is now going smoothly after the acquisition of a needed right-of-way from a private landowner.
The first phase consists of a rock causeway and a wharf that extends from 200 to 270 meters.

ECONOMIC BOOST

The international port is envisioned to boost the province’s economy by serving as an exit point for export products, including minerals, and an entry point for imports such as fertilizers, which would then become cheaper for Pangasinan farmers.
Mangaoang said a company is already planning to export magnetized sand mined from different parts of the province through the port.
He added that the PPA intends to reclaim around five hectares of land.
Governor Amado Espino Jr. has also initiated the construction of a complementary economic zone near the international port for foreign manufacturers.
An eco-tourism zone is also being developed by the provincial government on the south- eastern side of the Lingayen Gulf.
Under the agreement signed in 2010, PPA and the provincial government will each allocate P200 million while Sual will provide P100 million.

http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2012/01/22/sual-international-port-construction-underway/

saintm

January 30th, 2012, 08:12 AM

Pangasinan bridge to be closed to traffic

Sunday, January 29, 2012

CALASIAO -- The 50-year-old Villamil bridge in this town will be permanently closed to motor vehicle traffic effective Monday noon.

The closure of the bridge was announced last week by project engineer Sofronio delos Santos and health and safety engineer Marino Estrella of the Foundation Specialist Inc., contractor of the new bridge.

The bridge will not reopen until a new replacement bridge is in place. However, the bridge will remain open to pedestrian traffic until the contractor advises its total closure.

Third district Representative Rachel Arenas said the 100-meter replacement bridge is P89,221,394.64 and its construction is assisted by the Spanish government. The bridge project is situated in Marusay River along Mancup-Poblacion road.

The replacement bridge is a two-lane, 7.30-meter wide Centunion Modular Steel Girder Bridge composed of four steel girders at 25-meter spans supported by two concrete abutments and three piers, all supported by bored piles.

As the construction work will take about a year, Arenas asked for the patience of the public. "Anyhow, it will be for the long term benefit of the people," she said.

Due to the closure of the Villamil bridge, light vehicles from Dagupan City going to San Carlos City or Malasiqui-Bayambang are advised to take the Banaoang-San Vicente Road-Dinalaoan-Ambuetel-Nagsaing-Malabago detour route and vice versa.

For heavy vehicles, those going to San Carlos City from Dagupan City or Lingayen are to pass through Manat road in Binmaley. Heavy vehicles going to Malasiqui-Bayambang towns are to take the Sta. Barbara-Marunong road and vice versa. (Liway C. Manantan-Yparraguirre/Sunnex)

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pangasinan/local-news/2012/01/29/pangasinan-bridge-be-closed-traffic-203177

saintm

January 30th, 2012, 12:44 PM

RECENT UPDATE 01-27-2012

Manila North Road Expansion from 2 lanes to 4 lanes
Photo By Engr. ERNIE D. DIZON of Amigos Motorcycle club

Sison, Pangasinan
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tyronne

January 31st, 2012, 07:59 AM

^^ So parang hindi pinaabot sa amin sa Villasis hmmmp! Bagong aspalto pero gusto ko rin ng expansion.

saintm

February 1st, 2012, 02:11 PM

Fund for Agno unknown yet – flood control boss

February 1, 2012
By Mortz C. Ortigoza
ROSALES – The head of the Agno Flood Control System of the Department of Public Works & Highway has no idea how much would be appropriated for his office from the almost P100 billion Disbursement Acceleration Fund (DAF)to be implemented this year.
Project Manager Edgardo Paragas said that allocation from the DAF or famously known as stimulus package, depends upon the requisition of the five congressmen in Pangasinan whose districts are traversed by the Agno River.
“Last year we had P200 milion, plus maintenance fund for the Phase 1 and Phase 2 ng Agno Flood Control,” he said.
Last year he oversaw the construction of dikes in two phases, Agno Phase 1, from Lingayen to Bayambang and Phase 2 from Bayambang to a portion in Alcala.
The flood control not only oversee the building of dikes but also the dredging of the various rivers in Pangasinan.
His office owns the dredging machine docked at the Pantal River in Dagupan City.
Paragas agreed with the pronouncement of Eng. Rodolfo Dion, chief of the 2nd District Engineering of the DPWH, who earlier said dredging at the delta of Pantal River up to the Sinocalan River in Sta. Barbara entails 200 liters of diesel for an hour for the dredging machine.
Dion recommend a six- hour a day dredging that would cost P60 thousand a day or a staggering P2.2 billion for the one year ideal operation.

http://northwatch.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/fund-for-agno-unknown-yet-flood-control-boss/

saintm

February 2nd, 2012, 03:50 PM

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Airports enhance economic viability of provinces, says Alaminos mayor
By Venus H. Sarmiento
Thursday 2nd of February 2012 TweetFacebookYahooEmailShareThis
DAGUPAN CITY, Feb. 2 (PIA) -- A city mayor reiterated that the primary reason for constructing an airport is to enhance economic viability of the province which will greatly benefit the people.

Mayor Hernani Braganza of Alaminos City said in a press briefing on Tuesday that an airport is a developmental project and must not be tainted by politics.

“We are the only province in the entire region that does not have an airport and a seaport,” Braganza lamented considering how big the land area of Pangasinan is compared to the other three provinces such as La Union, Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte.

The airport venture, which is a national project of the Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC), has been studied very well and comes complete with requirements including an environmental compliance certificate, he said.

Although the construction may have been delayed for various reasons, the project is now on its clearing phase.

Braganza, who is also the secretary-general of the League of Cities of the Philippines, said the project will boost tourism and agriculture.

Alaminos City earned the nod as the venue of the international airport in the province during the administration of then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Seven other sites were considered including the towns of Lingayen and Sta. Barbara.

Home of the famous Hundred Islands, the city and the province will definitely attract more tourists once it becomes more accessible with an airport, he said. (ANL/VHS-PIA 1 Pangasinan)

http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?searchID=pangasinan&article=411328151766

saintm

February 7th, 2012, 06:45 PM

Dagupan to build 'Tsunami Hill'

DAGUPAN CITY, Feb. 7 (PNA)--The city government here will build what it called Tsunami Hill in the island Barangay of Pugaro where the residents of the village numbering some more than 2,000 will run whenever a tsunami strikes the Lingayen Gulf.

However, Arlene Agpoon, an official of the City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (CDRRMC), did not bare any detail when she appeared Monday before the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP).

City Administrator Vladimir Mata, CDRRMC executive director and concurrent acting planning officer of the Dagupan City government, also attended the SP meeting.

Agpoon said that a tsunami hill is imperative to build since the people in the island barangay of Pugaro are always under threat from tsunami and have nowhere to go once the disaster strikes.

Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, chair of the SP and of the committee en banc conducting hearing on the budget, said because of the alarming news from Agpoon that Dagupan is under tsunami threat, the city council ought to invite an official from the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) to apprise the body the danger the people of Dagupan are facing.

"We would like to know if the threat is real so that we can prepare the people of Pangasinan from an impending disaster," she said.

The project was proposed by Mayor Benjamin Lim last year. and had nothing to do with the the 6.9 magnitude earthquake that jolted the Visayas Monday.

The city government and the Office of the Civil Defense Office conducted a tsunami drill in Barangay Pugaro last year.

Agpoon did not say where they would draw the money needed to build the Tsunami Hill but a report said that the the CDCRRMC is tapping the part of the unspent balance of its yearly CDRRMC fund to bankroll the project, which can be readily used without any declaration of state calamity from the city council.

All Local Government Units (LGUs) set 5 per cent of their annual budget as disaster risk reduction management fund, formerly called calamity fund.

Dagupan is only one of the coastal areas of the Lingayen Gulf. The coast extends from Bolinao in the northwest up to San Fabian in the north east.

Corollary to the proposed Tsunami Hill, Agpoon said the CDRRMC already conducted a series of drills not only in Barangay Pugaro but also in other areas of Dagupan City to prepare the people on what they ought to do to save their lives and properties in case of tsunami. (PNA)

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&nid=2&rid=403580

saintm

February 8th, 2012, 09:24 AM

Dagupan transport group seeks amendment to traffic ordinance

By Alex Romeo R. Fernandez
Tuesday 7th of February 2012 TweetFacebookYahooEmailShareThis
DAGUPAN CITY, Feb. 7 (PIA) — A federation of jeepney drivers in this city is seeking for an amendment to the Revised Comprehensive and Mandatory Traffic Code so that drivers can easily pay for penalties in case of violation.

Benny Aquino, Alliance of United Transport Organizations Province-wide (AutoPro) President for Pangasinan, said during the regular session of the sangguniang panlungsod on Monday that jeepney drivers are faced with paying high penalties due to increasing fines for successive violations.

The traffic code, or Ordinance No. 1748-2002, states that the penalties for loading and unloading in prohibited areas are P100 for the first offense, P300 for the second offense, P500 for the third offense, and for the fourth offense P500 and revocation of license.

Present violation will be counted relative to the previous one, regardless of the duration taken between the offenses.

The group had sought to amend the penalty clause by requesting the city council to pass an ordinance so that a violation may only be counted within 30 days. Any violation done after that period should be considered as first offense.

The city council has approved such ordinances in 2008 and in 2009 but only took effect within those years.

Aquino hoped that this time, the amendment will be permanent.

Public Order and Safety Office Chief Robert Erfe-Mejia said that among the most common traffic violations committed in the city are loading and unloading of passengers in prohibited areas, such as in the middle of the road, on pedestrian lanes, intersections and approach of bridge.

The city engineer’s office had proposed the construction of 24 loading and unloading sheds along the central business district but only about six have been installed, prompting the drivers to load and unload in prohibited areas. (ANL/ARRF-PIA 1 Pangasinan)

http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=1931328518553

saintm

February 9th, 2012, 02:41 PM

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saintm

February 11th, 2012, 04:25 PM

Paggawa sa mini dam sa San Carlos City, Pangasinan sinimulan na
Date posted: Feb 11, 2012

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saintm

February 15th, 2012, 04:14 PM

PEREZ BLVD EXTENSION

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yung kulay blue ang extention ng perez boulevard at yung north to south na blue ay yan ang parallel papunta ng RP Calasiao.

City gov’t to package Dagupan as a tourist haven
By Venus H. Sarmiento

Wednesday 15th of February 2012
DAGUPAN CITY, Feb. 15 (PIA) -- This city is envisioned to be a top tourist destination with its chief executive laying out plans to make Dagupan more attractive.

City Mayor Benjamin Lim said that a tourist has four things in mind in choosing a place to visit: a place to enjoy, to dine, to shop and to experience something different from where they came from.

“If the place does not have anything to offer, chances are, it will not be chosen by tourists,” Lim said during the KBP Forum held at the Philippine Information Agency Office on Thursday.

The Dawel River Cruise, which now has a conducive docking area, is just a starting point for more attractions in the city. Other activities envisioned to be held there include kayaking, fishing and zipline activities.

It will also be packaged as a unique venue for weddings and wedding receptions.

Lim said the city government wishes to make Dagupan a convention destination like the cities of Cebu and Davao.

It is imperative therefore that commercial investors be lured to develop the area where tourists can go, he said.

“It is important for tourist destinations to be close to each other because more than two hours of travel will no longer be attractive to tourists,” Lim explained.

Recently, mall giant SM expressed desire to open a branch in the city. With the entrance of SM, the city government would push through with its plan to widen or extend the Perez Boulevard area but which requires tremendous study. Possible completion of this project will be on 2013, he said.

The city government believes that a place known as a tourist haven will boost economic activities in the area and at the same time provide employment for the people. (ANL/VHS-PIA 1 Pangasinan)

http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?searchID=pangasinan&article=411329278274

saintm

February 15th, 2012, 04:15 PM

^^ So parang hindi pinaabot sa amin sa Villasis hmmmp! Bagong aspalto pero gusto ko rin ng expansion.

Dumaan po kami sa villasis kanina U/C na po yung Expansion into 4 lanes, malapit sa urdaneta border. Traffic!

tyronne

February 16th, 2012, 07:35 AM

^^Ganun ba? Wow, that's good! You know hindi ako nagagawi sa bandang Urdaneta, di nga ako lumalagpas sa Munisipyo namin eh hahahaha! Thanks! :)

saintm

February 16th, 2012, 08:38 AM

^^Ganun ba? Wow, that's good! You know hindi ako nagagawi sa bandang Urdaneta, di nga ako lumalagpas sa Munisipyo namin eh hahahaha! Thanks! :)

Yup lampas po ng RED ARCH FURNITURE CHURVAH doon po, yung bagong furniture store sa Villasis nag start yung construction.

May road pavement reconstruction nagaganap sa Malasiqui-Bayambang Road traffic, Sa Calasiao mahaba yung rerouting dahil sa Villamil Brg

saintm

February 16th, 2012, 09:05 AM

BP: Tsunami hill, planong itayo sa isang barangay sa Dagupan

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[nightfury]

February 21st, 2012, 09:43 AM

GdV inaugurates completed projects
Posted on February 19, 2012 - Filed Under Inside News, News

FOURTH District Rep. Gina de Venecia, accompanied by her husband former Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., led the inauguration of her completed projects in Dagupan, Mangaldan, San Fabian, San Jacinto and Manaoag during her birthday last week.
First to be inaugurated on Friday was the six new classrooms of the East Central Elementary School in Barangay Mayombo.
Also present during the inauguration were Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, City Schools Superintendent Alma Ruby Torio and other school officials.
De Venecia announced that she has also requested the Department of Education to build two more classrooms for the school.
In addition, she said eight more classrooms for the Judge Jose de Venecia Memorial High School in Barangay Bolosan were built, and the rehabilitation of the Caranglaan Elementary School has been completed.
"At dahil inspirado ako sa dedikasyon at talino ng ating mga teachers, isa sa mga batas na aking ipinaglalaban sa Kongreso ay ang House Bill 2142 – an act upgrading the minimum salary-grade of public school teachers, from salary-grade 11 to 15,” De Venecia said.
She is also lobbying for the approval of House Bill 4446, an ac t to provide Youth Suicide Intervention And Prevention.
The proposed law seeks to strengthen the guidance counseling program of public schools so that the children’s emotional and psychological needs can be better addressed.
At the same time, De Venecia said her family’s scholarship program currently has more than 350 beneficiaries from poor families.
INFRASTRUCTURE
Meanwhile, the lawmaker’s flood control projects, particularly in Dagupan, have already been completed and four major road and drainage projects are ongoing.
De Venecia also announced that her bill seeking the expansion and upgrading of the Region 1 Medical Center from 300 beds to 600 beds has already been passed by the House of Representatives and is now due for deliberation at the Senate.
The Region 1 Drug Rehabilitation Center, the last project of former Speaker de Venecia, is already operational since December.
source: http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2012/02/19/gdv-inaugurates-completed-projects/

okalimable

February 29th, 2012, 01:31 PM

Yup lampas po ng RED ARCH FURNITURE CHURVAH doon po, yung bagong furniture store sa Villasis nag start yung construction.

May road pavement reconstruction nagaganap sa Malasiqui-Bayambang Road traffic, Sa Calasiao mahaba yung rerouting dahil sa Villamil Brg
sana roadwidening na rin :),,pansin ko kasi tumataas na rin ang volume ng sasakyan sa highway na yan yung mga galing northern tarlac:)

saintm

March 2nd, 2012, 09:15 PM

Road to Alaminos Airport. Readied!

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okalimable

March 3rd, 2012, 12:06 PM

^^bat di pa matanaw sa google earth tong project na ito..

okalimable

March 5th, 2012, 01:41 PM

saintm

March 5th, 2012, 04:54 PM

BP: Ilang istruktura sa Arellano St. sa Dagupan, nakatakdang i-demolish

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okalimable

March 6th, 2012, 02:50 PM

Prov’l gov’t mulls 10-year solid waste management plan
Posted on March 3, 2012 - Filed Under Advertisement, News, Political Feature | Leave a Comment

LINGAYEN–The provincial government led by Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. expressed optimism that Pangasinan will adopt a uniform 10- year development plan for solid waste management as it gears towards the upgrading of all local government unit (LGU) plans throughout the province, including the grassroots level.

During the LGU training workshop on the preparation of municipal solid waste management plan held February 28 at the Provincial Training and Development Center here, Sangguniang Panlalawigan Member Von Mark Mendoza said the activity was aimed at upgrading the existing plans of each LGU and to incorporate inputs and concerns about the Provincial Environment Code which will soon be approved by the board.

Mendoza, who chairs the environment and natural resources committee, said each municipality was expected to present its best practices on waste management so that others might follow their examples.

Waste management, according to Mendoza, is a general concern which can be properly addressed if politics is set aside and replaced with determination and strong will.

“We are after its sustainability thus unity of the leaders and the people are of utmost importance to make the program work,” he said.

Board Member Amadeo T. Espino, Liga ng mga Barangay president, on the other hand, said the barangay plays a vital role for a local solid waste management program to succeed.

Waste segregation, he said, must start at the grassroots along with proper collection and composting.

“Kailangan lang ng disiplina at tamang pagtuturo sa mga tao,” Espino said.

The one-day workshop, participated in by local government officers, municipal administrators, environment officers, barangay council officials and non-government organization representatives, was highlighted by the presentation of guidelines in the formulation of municipal solid waste management plan (MSWMP), the discussion of R.A. 9003 or the “Ecological Solid Waste Management Act“, and the status of implementation in Pangasinan. (PIO)

okalimable

March 6th, 2012, 02:51 PM

BP: Ilang istruktura sa Arellano St. sa Dagupan, nakatakdang i-demolish

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ganda ng sidewalk..very colorful:)

saintm

March 10th, 2012, 03:04 AM

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FVR to launch ferry service at San Roque Dam reservoir

SAN MANUEL, Pangasinan, March 9 (PNA) — Another first of its kind eco-tourism project will be introduced in Pangasinan with the inauguration on Monday by President Fidel V. Ramos of the first of its kind ferry service across the giant reservoir of the San Roque Multi-Purpose Project as another eco-tourism project in that area of the province.

Former President Ramos was invited by the San Roque Power Corporation (SRPC) to inaugurate the facility that could provide tourists leisurely ride across the blue water in the giant reservoir located in the upper stream of the Agno River from San Manuel, Pangasinan to Itogon, Benguet.

It was during Ramos' incumbency as 12th President of the Republic of the Philippines when the billion-dollar Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) project was built and became a reality.

Sixth District Board Member Ranjit Ramos Shahani, a nephew of Ramos, said the inauguration of the San Roque Ferry Service is an advance celebration during the 84th birthday of his uncle.

For this, SRPC will dedicate a marker in honor of the former President as the builder and father of the San Roque Dam, the 11th biggest earthen dam in the world.

Governor Amado Espoino Jr. and other officials of the province will also attend the inauguration of the facility which is expected to boost eco-tourism in eastern Pangasinan.

Also to be inaugurated is a newly constructed tennis court within SRMP’s eco-tourism pavilion and other newly completed projects of SRPC.

Shahani said the ferry service is long overdue as the water impounded in the dam’s reservoir could have been harnessed much earlier for tourism purposes.

At the same time, Shahani foresees the water of the facility to be tapped as source of potable water for 16 lowland municipalities of Pangasinan.

To date, he said, the re-regulating pond which will catch all the water from San Roque which it throws out while generating electricity for the Luzon Grid, is set to be operational by August this year.

When fully operational, the structure can irrigate some 50,000 hectares of land in eastern and central Pangasinan, including northern Tarlac.

Sports fishing could be another tourism-oriented activity to be introduced in the area as the reservoir was earlier stocked with tilapia and other fish species with the help of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources.

On the other hand, Shahani said that the re-regulating pond downstream of SRMP is set to be operational by at the earliest by August this year, capable of irrigating 50,000 hectares of land. (PNA)

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&nid=2&rid=411481

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Majestic views of Agno river valley along the hiking route

saintm

March 10th, 2012, 10:40 AM

Quibuar, Alaminos to Villacorta, Mabini road opened!

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saintm

March 10th, 2012, 03:18 PM

UN awardee cites plan to put uptsunami hill here as good move

DAGUPAN CITY – “A good move.”

This was how Vice Mayor Alfredo Arquillano of the municipality of San Francisco in Camotes Island, Cebu described the plan of the city government here to construct a Tsunami Hill in barangay Pugaro as its disaster risk reduction (DRR) project this year.

Arquillano made the description while addressing the “Sharing of DRR Experiences” forum with barangay officials and City Disaster Risk and Reduction Management Council (CDRRMC) members here last March 8 at the City Schools Division Training Center’s BSL Hall.

“Such is a proactive prevention because your city is bounded by an ocean and traversed by seven rivers,” he added, when asked about his opinion on the city’s plan to build the improvised hill as proposed by Mayor Benjamin S. Lim.

Arquillano, an awardee of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) Campaign on Making Cities and Municipalities Resilient in the Asia-Pacific region, lauded Lim’s innovative mindset on heeding the people’s need for a relocation site in a hazard-prone city like Dagupan.

Village chiefs learned from Arquillano the “SanFran Purok System” – a pioneering micro-structure governance rooting from bayanihan in the sitios, the “No Plastic Policy” in markets and other approaches on achieving resiliency under the San Francisco’s DRR management schemes powered by the “Think big, Start Small” motto that he implemented, earning for his municipality the recognitionon as the 2011 UN-Sasakawa Awardee for its world-class DRR initiatives.

Arquillano also shared to the participants his municipality’s solid waste management system and cleanest purok award program, a project he had started way back his previous three-terms as San Francisco mayor which was adopted by Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia in her province.

City Administrator Vlad Mata, appearing in lieu of Lim, facilitated the discussion right after Arquillano’s presentation.

Mata stressed to the barangayofficials that both the city government and barangay council should replicate the municipality’s DRR practices and gear to achieve what it has done as their barangay is the their shared responsibility.

Also present in the forum were Waste Management Divison (WMD) Chief Teddy Villamil, Management Consultant Emmanuel Bamba, Executive Secretary III Benjamin Tan and Public Order and Safety Office (POSO) Chief Robert Erfe-Mejia, who joined Mata in awarding a certificate of appreciation to Arquillano. (CIO)

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okalimable

March 12th, 2012, 04:28 PM

City Hall awards contract without SP OK
Posted on March 11, 2012 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment

SP HIT BY “TSUNAMI”

THE Dagupan City Mayor’s Office again misled and pulled the rug from the under the Sangguniang Panglunsod’s feet.

Amid denials from City Administrator Vlad Mata, documents obtained by The PUNCH show that the Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of Dagupan City has already conducted a bidding as early as January 10, 2012 and awarded a more than P4 million contract for Phase 1 of the Tsunami Hill, a project which the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) has yet to approve, last January 17.

Hence, unknown to the SP, the contract was already awarded when the scale model of the proposed project during the continuation of the hearing on the 2012 budget on March 5, attended by City Administrator Vladimir Mata, Engr. Geronimo Tablada of the City Engineering Office and Architect Jose Torio of the City Planning Office.

Mata, during the hearing, categorically denied that a bidding was conducted.

The set of documents that The PUNCH obtained included the Abstract of Bids as Read dated January 10, 2012, indicating two participating bidders, namely Aqui Nanz Trading and Construction and LM Diaz Trading & Construction, which won the contract for the construction of a grouted rip-rap embankment (Tsunami Hill) Phase 1 at the island barangay of Pugaro costing P4,016,171.71.

The Abstract of Bids as Read was signed by Mata; Atty. Roy Laforteza, BAC Vice Chairman; Eduardo Magno, Virgil Tangco and Nestor de Vera, BAC members; Marcelo Prado, Head of the BAC-Technical Working Group; and Augusto Cesar Ventenilla, end-user unit.

City Auditor Ofelia Celi signed as one of the two observers notwithstanding the fact that no budget nor approval for the project was appropriated.

The endorsement of the project by City Engr. Virginia Rosario was nowhere to be found.

CONTRACT SIGNED

Mayor Benjamin Lim signed the Notice of Award on January 14 addressed to Ms. Lanila M. Diaz, manager of L.M.Diaz Trading and Construction located at Callejon Extension, Pogo Chico, Dagupan City being the lowest bidder the contract at P4,011,739.05.

The contract of agreement was signed by Lim and Diaz on January 17.

PUNCH sources said the amount will be sourced from unspent calamity fund appropriated in 2010, a move that is reportedly in violation of Section 21 of R.A. 10121, the Local Government Code and budgeting rules.

CONSTRUCTION

On February 22, Diaz wrote City Engr. Rosario requesting site supervision by her office on the project.

The next day, February 23, Rosario wrote back to Diaz asking her not to start with the project until the City Engineering Office has submitted documents pertaining to the soil test and the report from the Mines and Geo-Sciences Bureau.

In the afternoon of March 5, Tablada confirmed before the SP that representatives from the BGMS were arriving in Dagupan to conduct boring test at the proposed site of the Tsunami Hill, which is envisioned as a shelter where residents of Barangay Pugaro can run to in case a tsunami strikes.

The boring test was required by Rosario in her response to the letter of Diaz asking supervision of the project.

Mata, answering separate questions posed by Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, chair of the SP, and Councilor Alfie Fernandez categorically denied that a bidding was undertaken.

Mata, however, admitted that the project was advertised in the Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System (PHIL-GEPS) for bidding.

Torio also said the whole project will cost P9 million, hence, the second phase is expected to cost P5M.

In the proposed 2012 budget submitted by city hall to the SP, however, a P10 million allocation is scheduled for the Tsunami Hill.
http://http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2012/03/11/city-hall-awards-contract-without-sp-ok/

saintm

March 13th, 2012, 12:13 PM

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Planned Tsunami Hill in Dagupan must undergo more thorough studies--Philvolcs
By Leonardo V. Micua

DAGUPAN CITY, March 13 (PNA) -- The proposed Tsunami Hill planned to be built by the Dagupan City government in the island Barangay Pugaro here must go through more further studies by experts to ensure that it is really safe and can save lives.

This was among the recommendations made by Joan Salcedo, Science Research Specialist of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) who confirmed to the Sangguniang Panlungsod on Monday that based on a studies made by the agency, Dagupan and Pangasinan could be hit by a tsunami soon.

She revealed that the source of the tsunami will come from the active Manila Trench located less than 100 kilometers off Bolinao, Pangasinan which if it moves, it can generate an 8.3 magnitude earthquake.

When this happens, she said, this could spawn a tsunami in Dagupan City with maximum height reaching seven meters.

The Tsunami Hill was proposed by Mayor Benjamin Lim to provide a safe haven for residents of the island village in case tsunami will strike Dagupan as they may not have time to go to the downtown area anymore and seek refuge in tall buildings there.

Salcedo said that based on the modeling done by Philvolcs, the tsunami that may be unleashed by the earthquake will inundate all the coastal areas along the coastal communities of Pangasinan, particularly Dagupan.

Dagupan, the educational and commercial center of Pangasinan, lies south of the Lingayen Gulf.

"If there would be any plan that the city would be doing, we recommend that the plan would depend on this scenario (a seven meter high tsunami splashing into Dagupan)," she said.

Salcedo confirmed that if ever, this will be the first known man-made Tsunami Hill in the Philippines.

She however added that if there is any such tsunami plan to be prepared, it must be holistic and must consider all factors, including awareness and training of the people how to cope with the natural disaster.

Pointing out that Dagupan should not rely on just a single system (like the planned Tsunami Hill) but also other systems, Salcedo said the non-structural counter-measures must also be prepared.

She stressed that it should not just be a hill that must be prepared but also a well-laid plan that will detail on what the people should do at the first warning of a coming tsunami.

The plan, she said, must be communicated and understood by all the stakeholders in the community, she added.

At the same time, she suggested that if the Dagupan City government will proceed on the planned Tsunami Hill, it should check on the other earthquake-related hazards, such as the Tsunami Hill's proximity to an existing fault and the shoreline and the liquefaction effect as Dagupan is an area hit by liquefaction during the 1990 earthquake.

As to the height of the Tsunami Hill which is seven meters, Salcedo recommended that the structure be redesigned to be made higher than seven meters.

"When we say seven meters high of water will hit Dagupan, this is a seven meter wall of water. In tsunami, the quake comes from the bottom of the earth and the energy generated from that tremor is transferred to the wall of water moving forward to the seashore," she explained.

She added that because of the energy packed by the tsunami which it will get from the earthquake, all the structures along the coast will be carried away in its path.

Thus, she recommended to the Dagupan City government to consult an experienced and credible structural engineer before constructing the Tsunami Hill to ensure that it will really follow the safety standards and for the structure to withstand tsunami.

The planned Tsunami Hill will cost P9 million of which at least P4.6 million will be spent for the first phase.

At the same time, Salcedo said there is also a need to visualize the after-tsunami scenario as the tsunami would not just come in single wave but a series of waves that will last for long hours.

Answering Councilor Maybelyn Fernandez, Salcedo said, "I think, it is not good to make the stairs all rounds at least in some areas," basing her opinion on the scale model of the structure published in the Pangasinan newspaper, The Sunday Punch.

Salcedo said that the plan of the structure must take into consideration how the people can go to the top with that height of seven meters.

Informed that the planned Tsunami Hill will be built 300 meters away from the shore, Salcedo said "Masyado siyang malapit."

Asked by Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, chair of the SP, if there are other more feasible alternatives that could be resorted aside from the Tsunami Hill, Salcedo said there should be proper evacuation and a definite evacuation center that is safe.

"We can only resort to vertical evacuation if there is no more evacuation area that can be recommended," Salcedo added. (PNA)

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&nid=2&rid=412317

saintm

March 13th, 2012, 05:02 PM

DPWH completes rehab, reconstruction, upgrading of damaged secondary road in Bonuan

By Miriam P. Aquino
March 13

The recent completion of the rehabilitation, reconstruction and upgrading works on the damaged secondary road in Bonuan, Dagupan, in Pangasinan ultimately renewed/refurbished the road and improved the flow of traffic which brought relief and comfort to road users passing through this area, according to Department of Public Works and Highways 1 (DPWH 1) Regional Director Veniedo O. Reyes.

Completed on February 15, 2012, the road project which is an alternate route to Dagupan City via San Fabian, also in Pangasinan, will ease traffic and shorten travel time.

According to Esperanza C. Tinaza, Regional Public Relations Officer of DPWH1, the road project amounting to P49.5-M involved road excavation, removal and disposal of deteriorated concrete pavement, asphalt overlay of 2 layers,Portland Cement Concrete Pavement (PCCP) carriageway and shoulder, installation of reflective thermoplastic pavement markings and reinforced concrete covered lined canal.

Tinaza also added that this project is included under the five strategies of the 2011-2016 Philippine Development Plan that centers particularly on investing massively on infrastructure that seeks to support the economic sectors, and bringing the services closer to the people. (ANL/MPA-PIA 1 La Union with reports from DPWH 1)

http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=311331619641

saintm

March 15th, 2012, 06:24 PM

No transport strike in Dagupan, Pangasinan

DAGUPAN CITY, March 15 (PNA) -- Jeepney drivers and operators in Dagupan and Pangasinan did not join the "Welgang Bayan" staged by members of transport groups in Metro Manila Thursday in protest against the continuing rise in the price of fuel.

Benny Aquino, presidenrt of the Alliance of United Transport Organizations Provincewide (AutoPro), said although his group sympathizes with the strikers, they decided to distance away as they could not anyway enlist the support of other transport organizations in the city and province.

Aquino said it is useless to join the "Welgang Bayan" if other public transportation will be plying the streets and take advantage of the absence of their comrades.

For the "Welgang Bayan" to succeed in Dagupan and Pangasinan, all affected members of the transport sector must close rank and push a common agenda that could bring good to all, he said. (PNA)

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&nid=2&rid=412823

okalimable

March 16th, 2012, 02:35 PM

Anti-flood infrastructure projects in Pangasinan underway
By Alex Romeo R. Fernandez

Friday 16th of March 2012 TweetFacebookYahooEmailShareThisDAGUPAN CITY, March 16 (PIA) -- Engineer Rodolfo Dion of the second Pangasinan Engineering District said that the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is currently constructing 1.2-meter-wide drainages along major roads in Barangays Bonuan Gueset, Bonuan Boquig, Bonuan Binloc, Pantal, Tapuac, and Mayombo in Dagupan City.

Roads along Tapuac and Mayombo, which are most prone to flooding among the roads leading to the central business district, are being elevated by 40 centimeters, he said during the KBP Forum at the Philippine Information Agency on Thursday.

The city government, meanwhile, is recovering and rehabilitating sidewalks that have been encroached by private businesses along M.H. Del Pilar St.

Dion said the projects, most of which have already been proposed as early as 2009, have been appropriated a total P134.5 million from the general appropriations fund.

Meanwhile, Calasiao town has already started the renovation of its town plaza, along with the rehabilitation of the Villamil Bridge.

Dion said the DPWH is hastening to finish the projects in this city before the rainy season. (ANL/ARRF-PIA 1 Pangasinan)
http://http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=1931331804007

okalimable

March 16th, 2012, 02:39 PM

Information to Empower Filipinos
San Roque Power Corporation unveils marker in honor of FVR
By Venus H. Sarmiento

Wednesday 14th of March 2012 TweetFacebookYahooEmailShareThisSAN MANUEL, Pangasinan, Mar. 14 (PIA) -- The San Roque Power Corporation unveiled here today a marker honoring former President Fidel Valdez Ramos in appreciation of his political will in implementing the San Roque Multi-Purpose (SRMP) project during his term as Chief Executive.

Ramos, considered as the godfather of the SRMP, was instrumental in the realization of the project. It was on May 2, 1997 when he led the groundbreaking ceremonies that kicked off the construction of the SRMP until its completion in May 2003.

The marker, located at the right side of the San Roque dam overlooking the reservoir, serves as an advance birthday gift to Ramos who will turn 84 on March 18.

In a short program here, senior executives of Marubeni Corporation and Kansai Electric Power Corporation, partners and financiers of the project, acknowledged Ramos as the driving force of the SRMP and therefore played a pivotal role in its construction.

SRPC President and Chief Executive Officer Ryukichi Kawaguchi said the San Roque Multi- purpose project was in response to the pressing needs in curbing the problem on irrigation and power crisis that were experienced in the early nineties and that he is grateful for what Ramos has done.

The marker will also serve as a lasting monument to remind people of the purposes of the SRMP which are : irrigation power generation, flood attenuation and water quality improvement, said Kawaguchi.

He said the people who opposed the project before are now their partners in building sustainable communities.

“We want to see more successful microfinance and micro-entrepreneurs among recipients of the project. We continue to improve the lives of people, livelihood, education, medical program and basic community projects like the completion of roads linking the towns of San Manuel and San Nicolas,” Kawaguchi said.

Ramos, who spoke extemporaneously and threw away his prepared speech, was grateful for the honor and recognition given to him.

“This project is not just for the Philippines but for all Filipinos. We must visualize SRPC as a center of our big development area,” Ramos said.

In the same program, Japanese Ambassador His Excellency Toshinao Urabe recalled that his first travels to Pangasinan was characterized by power outages and many business establishments use generators to provide temporary electricity.

“But now the SRPC project provides 345 megawatts of power or 2.2 percent of electric supply in the Philippines. Two percent is a huge number in macroeconomics,” Urabe said.

Also present during the marker unveiling are Congresswoman Marlyn Agabas, Governors Amado Espino and Nestor Fongwan of Pangasinan and Benguet. The municipality of Itogon in Benguet is one of the towns being serviced by the project.

The San Roque Multi Purpose project, considered as the 11th biggest earthen dam in the world, is now on its 9th year of operation with 100 percent reliability and efficiency. The project also provides sufficient water for irrigation to about 15,000 hectares of farmlands downstream of Agno River. (ANL/VHS-PIA 1 Pangasinan)

http://http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=411331694726

saintm

March 18th, 2012, 03:45 PM

Anti-flood infrastructure projects in Pangasinan underway

By Alex Romeo R. Fernandez
Friday 16th of March 2012
DAGUPAN CITY, March 16 (PIA) -- Engineer Rodolfo Dion of the second Pangasinan Engineering District said that the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is currently constructing 1.2-meter-wide drainages along major roads in Barangays Bonuan Gueset, Bonuan Boquig, Bonuan Binloc, Pantal, Tapuac, and Mayombo in Dagupan City.

Roads along Tapuac and Mayombo, which are most prone to flooding among the roads leading to the central business district, are being elevated by 40 centimeters, he said during the KBP Forum at the Philippine Information Agency on Thursday.

The city government, meanwhile, is recovering and rehabilitating sidewalks that have been encroached by private businesses along M.H. Del Pilar St.

Dion said the projects, most of which have already been proposed as early as 2009, have been appropriated a total P134.5 million from the general appropriations fund.

Meanwhile, Calasiao town has already started the renovation of its town plaza, along with the rehabilitation of the Villamil Bridge.

Dion said the DPWH is hastening to finish the projects in this city before the rainy season. (ANL/ARRF-PIA 1 Pangasinan)

http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=1931331804007

saintm

March 19th, 2012, 02:16 PM

Pangasinan airport to boost development

>> THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 2012
ALAMINOS, Pangasinan— Mayor Hernani Braganza of this city predicted a brighter future for the province with the planned construction of an airport and seaport facility here.

Now on its “clearing phase,” the establishment of an airport in the province is sure to enhance economic viability and will benefit the people, said Braganza.

He said he hopes that politics will not ruin the noble purpose of the airport project.

“We are the only province in the entire region that does not have an airport and a seaport,” said the mayor as he expressed confidence in the well-planned airport project of the Department of Transportation and Communications.

http://northphiltimes.blogspot.com/2012/03/pangasinan-airport-to-boost-development.html

saintm

March 19th, 2012, 05:23 PM

Alaminos City breaks ground for eco-friendly water treatment pond

By Alex Romeo R. Fernandez
Monday 19th of March 2012 TweetFacebookYahooEmailShareThis
ALAMINOS CITY, March 19 (PIA) — A ground breaking ceremony was held here on Sunday for the construction of an eco-friendly wastewater treatment pond in Barangay Poblacion.

The project will consist of an agri-aqua demo farm, organic reduction pond and nitrification pond, which will clean domestic, industrial and organic wastewater in several stages of natural process.

Known as the Free Surface-Flow Constructed Wetland for Natural Wastewater Treatment, the project will cover a 4,000 square meter land, which will also integrate an eco-park to be named Judge Felix R. De Castro Jr. Park., after the late father of the landowner, lawyer Alfred de Castro.

The project is spearheaded by the Democratic Local Governance in South East Asia (DELGOSEA) and was patterned after a project in Undothani, Thailand.

Because it uses natural method, the project can save the government substantial amount of funds, according to Mayor Hernani Braganza.

Rep. Teddy Casiño, an environmentalist, expressed enthusiasm over the project, saying it is a logical one considering that it does not need many artificial structures to be constructed for it to function.

Aside from the Philippines, the DELGOSEA is also currently undertaking different projects in Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and Cambodia depending on the needs of these countries, according to DELGOSEA Executive Director Antonio Avila.

DELGOSEA projects are being implemented in the country by the Local Government Development Foundation (LGDF) with the League of Cities of the Philippines and Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines, said Sheryll Bayan of the DELGOSEA. (ANL/ARRF-PIA 1 Pangasinan)

http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=1931332127883

saintm

March 22nd, 2012, 09:48 AM

Completion of Alaminos Airport assured

ALAMINOS CITY, March 21 (PNA) -- Completion of the Alaminos Airport, a major project in Pangasinan to help boost tourism, was already assured with its inclusion in the Annual General Appropriations Act (AGAA) starting this year.

This was disclosed by Alaminos City Administrator Wilmer Panabang who said the administration of President Benigno S. Aquino III has prioritized the completion of the project to boost the movement of tourists and investors from Manila to western Pangasinan.

The world-famous Hundred Islands National Park is located in Alaminos City, the trade, commercial and education center of western Pangasinan.

Panabang said the land acquisition for the 150-hectare airport is now almost complete, using the initial outlay of P150 million previously released by the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC).

To date, he said, they are now about to finalize the claim of only three or four land owners to finally complete the land acquisition process.

The Alaminos City government under Mayor Hernani Braganza was tasked to help in land acquisition to facilitate the process since it knows the owners of the land to be encroached by the airport.

When completed, the Alaminos Airport will be bigger than the Laoag International Airport which is only 75 hectares.

With a runway of three kilometers, the project will operate initially as a domestic airport before it will be eventually harnessed as an international airport.

Panabang said two airlines have already signified their intention to open domestic flights between Manila and Alaminos when the airport will finally begin operation sometime in 2016 before the term of President Aquino ends.

To date, construction of an access road leading to the proposed airport is now ongoing funded by the initial P21 million released by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH).

"The airport is a priority project of President Aquino through the DOTC headed by Secretary Mar Roxas. It is only through this airport that western Pangasinan, which is isolated, will be connected to the outside world," he added.

With the airport, travel to Alaminos City from Manila by plane will be only 45 minutes, compared to the five-hour travel time by bus. (PNA)

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&nid=6&rid=414379

okalimable

March 23rd, 2012, 03:11 PM

^^sana after 10 years ito na ang magiging regional airport...papapsok ng norte ..gaya ng DMIA..

saintm

March 25th, 2012, 07:48 PM

DPWH to finish road repairs before rainy season

March 26, 2012 at 12:01 am Leave a comment
By Mortz C. Ortigoza

LINGAYEN – The Second Engineering District hopes to complete the massive repairs of roads before the rainy days start, as instructed by SecretaryRogelio L. Sings on of the Department of Public Works & Highways .

This is according to Engr. Rodolfo “Boy” Dion whoalso said there was nothing anomalous in the repairs of roads that are still in good condition n Barangays Tapuac, Caranglaan, Mayombo, and Arellano District in Dagupan City.

He said the roads in those areas are being elevated so they won’t be flooded during the rainy and typhoon season.

“Ganoon kataas sa Pedritos (highway near a restaurant in Dagupan) anggagawinnatin,” he stressed.

He disclosed that the national road in Bugallon town was also being repaired because there are already worn-out portions.

http://northwatch.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/dpwh-to-finish-road-repairs-before-rainy-season/

saintm

March 27th, 2012, 08:03 PM

BusinessMirror.com.ph Home Top News MVP keen on 3 airport plans
MVP keen on 3 airport plans
TUESDAY, 27 MARCH 2012 21:25 LENIE LECTURA / REPORTER
BUSINESSMAN Manuel V. Pangilinan said on Tuesday his group is very keen on pursuing projects via the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Program, particularly three of the busiest airports in the country.
He cited Naia (Ninoy Aquino International Airport), Mactan International Airport and Clark International Airport.

“The country is in need of infra projects. I think it’s up to the government to decide which they should privatize first. There is no assurance that anybody can win it. I am not saying that we will win all three or one. It’s going to be a competitive bidding. There are only three airports that I can think of that are attractive for the moment. I could be wrong,” said Pangilinan.

He added that Puerto Princesa airport could also attract a good bid but his group, Pangilinan said, is “not interested at the moment.”

For other airports, Pangilinan said, “there should be a critical mass of tourists” before these are put on the auction block. “Then that’s the time to privatize.”

Pangilinan said there was a need for reliable commuter trains in heavily populated areas, such as from Manila to Tarlac.

“Why not use NorthRail because the alignment is there already.  They should look at it, at least going to Nueva Ecija, Tarlac and up to Pangasinan because the NorthRail ends in Pampanga,” said Pangilinan. “We do need commuter trains because the beneficial effect is to decongest Metro Manila,” he added.

His group had also expressed its intention to bid for the Cavite extension of the Light Rail Transit Authority.

http://businessmirror.com.ph/home/top-news/25137-mvp-keen-on-3-airport-plans

saintm

March 28th, 2012, 01:52 PM

DPWH asked to build retaining wall to protect Dagupan seafood processing plant

DAGUPAN CITY, March 27 (PNA) - Rep. Gina de Venecia of the Fourth District of Pangasinan has sought the help of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to build a retaining wall and concrete embankment of the San Fabian River separating San Fabian town from Dagupan City.

In a visit to DPWH Secretary Rogelio Singson recently, De Venecia stressed the need to build a gabion type of embankment and retaining wall on the Dagupan side of the river to arrest further erosion of dry lands that could wash out soon to protect the Seafood Processing Plant put up by the Korean government in Barangay Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan City.

As a result of the meeting, Secretary Singson ordered the DPWH second engineering district through Engineer Rodolfo Dion to prepare the program of work for the project that will cost P50 million.

De Venecia said the Seafood Processing Plant will not be safe unless the retaining wall and embankment are built soon as the eroded area becomes wider and wider every rainy season.

Dion said the project is of utmost priority as it could save a vital infrastructure that could boost the livelihood of the people of Dagupan City.

Dr. Westly Rosario, chief of the National Integrated Fisheries Resources Development Center adjacent to the seafood processing plant, thanked Rep. de Venecia for the intervention as the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquiatic Resources (BFAR) has no money to build the embankment.

BFAR and Dagupan City government co-own the seafood processing plant. (PNA)

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&nid=2&rid=415777

saintm

March 28th, 2012, 02:06 PM

DPWH allots P 3.9 billion for reconstruction, rehabilitation of roads in region 1

Wednesday 28th of March 2012 TweetFacebookYahooEmailShareThis SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union, March 28 (PIA) -- The Department of Public Work and Highways Regional Office 1 (DPWH 1) allocated P 3.9 billion funds for repair and rehabilitation of roads in region 1, this year.

According to Jose Ginete, Jr., chief assistant of DPWH La Union Engineering District 1, the fund will be used for the rehabilitation, reconstruction and upgrading of roads and drainage systems particularly in some parts of Barangay Biday and Sevilla in La Union.

Among the roads currently undergoing repair include the San Fernando Bypass Road, which will be accomplished on August 29 this 2012 and the expansion of alternative route going to Pangasinan up to Tarlac, which will be finished also in November.

Ginete assured that there are no affected residents nearby the reconstruction area and even private properties.

Moreover, in support to President Benigno Aquino III’s vision to have good roads in the country, DPWH Secretary Rogelio L. Singson urged all DPWH officials to continue their task as public servants for a better community.

“Let us enforce good governance by implementing the right project with the right cost and right quality, completed right on time by the right people,” Singson said during his visit recently in Region 1. (ANL/MHH- PIA 1 La Union with reports from DPWH 1)

http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=1901332820149

saintm

March 28th, 2012, 04:53 PM

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Constructed wetland to rise in Alaminos City

FIRST IN THE PHILIPPINES

Primarily aimed at ensuring safe drinking water and protecting its rivers, seas and the Hundred Islands National Park from pollution, the Alaminos City Constructed Wetland Project is now being constructed following its groundbreaking here Sunday, March 18.

Touted to be the very first in the country, the project was made possible through the concerted efforts of the League of Cities of the Philippines, represented by its secretary general Alaminos City Mayor Hernani Braganza, and the Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP) who acquired the project from the Democratic Local Government of South East Asia (DELGOSEA).

During the groundbreaking ceremony attended by city and barangay officials and other groups, Mayor Braganza said the project is the cheapest and most effective way of treating wastewater that comes from the market, commercial establishments and sewage that flows to lower areas.

“We have to protect our people who depend on clean potable water that they draw from under the ground and the people who depend on fishing and tourism as livelihood,” said the environmentalist mayor.

The P2.5 million project (first phase) is under the President Aquino administration’s Public-Private Partnership (PPP) program with the participation of the family of Atty. Alfred Felix De Castro that leased to the city government portion of the project site.

It will serve the central business district and most parts of barangay Poblacion.

A replication of the “Constructed Wetland for Municipal Wastewater Treatment”, a Best Practice Model, in Udonthani City, Thailand, the project was chosen by the city after receiving a grant from the DELGOSEA.

The grant which provides funds for research, travel and coordination expenses was awarded to the city government of Alaminos for bagging the Seal of Good Housekeeping award of the Department of Interior and Local Government.

The award is given to local government units that excel in the practice of transparency and good governance.

Meanwhile, Bayan Muna Partylist Rep.Teddy A. Casiño, an acclaimed human rights and environmental protection advocate, hailed Alaminos City’s undertaking to build the facility.

Casiño who visited the city to grace its fiesta said the Alaminos City Constructed Wetland project is “commendable and logical because it is a truly natural way of treating wastewater.”

“This sustainable and affordable means of treating wastewater will be a big contribution of the administration of Mayor Hernani Braganza, to the protection of the environment,” said Casiño.

Before approving the project, the mayor and most of department heads and other city officials here visited Udonthani City to see for themselves how a constructed wetland project is operated.

He said Udonthani City’s Best Practice of building its constructed wetland project has saved its government the trouble of undertaking expensive artificial means of wastewater treatment that costs hundreds of millions in funds.

Meanwhile, Mayor Braganza thanked the family of Atty.De Castro for leasing part of their land to the city to be used as treatment area which will be called “Judge Felix De Castro Jr. Park.”(CIO)

http://www.alaminoscity.gov.ph/news/newsdetails.aspx?newsid=761

saintm

March 30th, 2012, 05:22 PM

Windmill power plant, ipapatayo sa Pangasinan

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by gmanews on Mar 30, 2012
Balita Pilipinas Ngayon rounds up the top stories from around the PhilippinesGMA's regional stations in Luzon, Visayas, and MIndanao. It's hosted by Mark Salazar and Maki Pulido and airs at 4:30 PM (PHL Time), Mondays to Fridays on GMA News TV Channel 11.

saintm

April 1st, 2012, 04:47 PM

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Road construction ongoing at Tapuac District. Expect moderate to heavy traffic along the way

saintm

April 1st, 2012, 05:55 PM

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NATURAL ECO-SYSTEM PARK
Posted on March 25, 2012

NATURAL ECO-SYSTEM PARK—Alaminos City Mayor Hernani A. Braganza (4th from right) and Bayan Muna Partylist Representive Teddy Casiño (3rd from left) lead the groundbreaking of a Free Surface Flow Constructed Wetland for City Natural Wastewater Treatment in Alaminos City on March 18. With them are (from left) City Vice Mayor Cesar Manzano, City General Service Officer and City Engineer-Designate Ismael Najera, Atty. Alfred De Castro, owner of the lot, Dr. Antonio Avila Partnership for Democratic Local Government of South East Asia (DELGOSEA), Clarita Fajardo of the Association on NGOs in Alaminos City and City Administrator Wilmer Panabang. The project, which will resemble a natural lake or estuarine where waste water is treated in a natural process, is a replication of the best practice model from Udunthani, Thailand.

http://sundaypunch.prepys.com/archives/2012/03/25/natural-eco-system-park/

saintm

April 6th, 2012, 05:48 PM

PPP Code Promises Pangasinan Growth
By LIEZLE BASA INIGO
April 6, 2012, 9:10pm
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan — The Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP), presided by Vice Governor Jose Ferdinand Z. Calimlim, Jr., unanimously approved recently the province’s Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Code for enhance economic growth and sustained development.

The approval is another welcome development for Pangasinan being one of the first five provinces in the country to adopt such scheme, said Pangasinan Provincial Administrator Raffy Baraan.

Other provinces who have passed similar PPP legislation are Cavite, Camarines Sur, Northern Samar, and Nueva Ecija.

Calimlim said that members of the Provincial Board unanimously approved the PPP Code in order for Pangasinan to establish a well-structured and transparent investment program that will spur development.

Calimlim said projects under the PPP must be “feasible, affordable and should indicate commercial viability.”

PPP is a form of legally enforceable contracts between the province and private sector proponent (PSP), which requires new investments from the PSP and which transfers key risks to the PSP in which payments are made in exchange for performance for the purpose of delivering a service traditionally provided by the public sector.

The PPP will also serve as an essential part of the overall infrastructure reform policy of the province.

“This will encourage performance-based management of the delivery of public services applying commercial principles and incentives by introducing competition in and for the market and by involving users and stakeholders in the decision-making process, infrastructure and regulatory reform, said the vice governor.

Under its procedures, a PPP selection committee which is composed of the following: chairperson (at least third ranking officer of the province), secretary (provincial legal officer), the provincial treasurer, provincial planning and development officer and one representative from and selected by the SP (probably the chair of the committee on investment and appropriations) will be formed.

All PPP contracts must be signed by the Governor with prior authorization by the Provincial Board.

The province may undertake development projects including but not limited to, power plants, highways, ports, airports, canals, dams, hydropower projects, water supply, sewerage, irrigation, telecommunications, railroad and railways, transport systems, land reclamation projects, industrial estates or townships, housing, government buildings, tourism projects, public markets, slaughterhouses, warehouses, solid waste management, information technology networks and database infrastructure, education and health facilities, sewerage, drainage, dredging, prisons, and hospitals.

http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/356444/ppp-code-promises-pangasinan-growth

saintm

April 28th, 2012, 10:26 PM

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saintm

April 30th, 2012, 01:02 PM

DPWH in 2nd District of Pangasinan, reveals ongoing projects

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saintm

May 1st, 2012, 04:02 PM

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Arenas, Ma. Rachel J. (http://www.congress.gov.ph/members/search.php?congress=14&id=arenas-r)
Representative
Pangasinan, 3rd District

Congresswoman Arenas implements P300 M projects

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Third Engineering District official Marieta Mendoza has revealed massive implementation of infrastructure projects is being implemented in the 3rd District of Pangasinan. All in all, the worth of the said projects may now reach some P300 M which is being facilitated by Congresswoman Rachel Arenas for the construction and repair of roads and bridges including rewidening of roads within the district. Mendoza also said that among the major part of all these construction is focused on flood control as there are dikes in some parts of the town of Sta. Barbara which is under construction or being repaired. The DPWH appealed to the public to bear with the temporary inconvenience of traffic problems in areas affected by the projects.

saintm

May 16th, 2012, 06:50 AM

Fighting for century-old Kennon Road
By Vincent Cabreza
Inquirer Northern Luzon
12:00 am | Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

Kennon reborn

Cosalan said DPWH had proposed to replace Kennon Road with a zigzag road from Itogon, Benguet, to San Manuel, Pangasinan.

But Baguio residents fought to reopen Kennon Road instead. In March 1991, then Baguio Mayor Jaime Bugnosen wrote then President Corazon Aquino, urging her to fund the restoration of Kennon Road and proposing for the first time to offer the road as a build-operate-transfer project, the precursor of today’s PPP.

A comprehensive geological and engineering report conducted by a Japanese team concluded in 1991 that government would need P3.2 billion to convert the historic road into an all-weather road, by building 471 tunnels worth P1.215 billion, with concrete encasement and 1.2-meter thick concrete roof, to protect vehicles from falling rocks.

Government could not afford the price. It shelled out P386 million instead to repave Kennon Road, which opened to traffic on Sept. 1, 1991, the summer capital’s foundation day.

Twenty-one years later, the government has concluded that maintaining Kennon Road proved costlier than creating an all-weather Kennon Road, augmented by a new series of bridges along Bued River and abandoning the landslide-prone areas of the scenic road, Vergara said.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/194077/fighting-for-century-old-kennon-road

Itogon to San Manuel still an option

saintm

May 20th, 2012, 04:00 PM

DPWH ON-GOING PROJECTS IN PANGASINAN!!! (http://www.dpwh.gov.ph/infrastructure/pms/01.asp?es=ong)

NOTABLE PROJECTS:

Pangasinan-Nueva Vizcaya Road (Easier access to Cagayan Valley)

Carlos P. Romulo Bridge, Wawa (Crossing Agno River)

Alaminos Airport Access Road

Flood Control

Widening of provincial roads

:banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:

010412F00007
a) Construction of boulder bank protection with 1 u. boulder spurdike - ARCP @ Brgy. Amistad Tayug CONSTRUCTION/Tayug,Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
b) A.C. SOLIVEN CONSTRUCTION & GENERAL MERCHANDISE
c) Agno Flood Control System,Region I
d) DPWH

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a) Urdaneta-Jct. Dagupan-Lingayen Road with exceptions PAVED (CONCRETE) TO PAVED (CONCRETE)/Districtwide-5th Congressional District,Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
b) THREE W BUILDERS, INC.
c) Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00083
a) Carmen Jct. Manat Road, K0171+238 - K0175+000 with exceptions PAVED (CONCRETE) TO PAVED (CONCRETE)/Districtwide-5th Congressional District,Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
b) 2-R CONSTRUCTION AND SUPPLY
c) Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00081
a) Pangasinan-Nueva Ecija Road, K0184+000 - K0185+667 with exceptions PAVED (CONCRETE) TO PAVED (CONCRETE)/Districtwide-6th Congressional District,Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
b) AQUINO-DELA CRUZ ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION
c) Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00079
a) San Nicolas-Natividad-San Quintin-Umingan - Guimba Road, K0205+599 - K0207+059, K0208+000 - K0210+030 & K0211+000 - K0212+322 PAVED (CONCRETE) TO PAVED (CONCRETE)/Districtwide-6th Congressional District,Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
b) AQUINO-DELA CRUZ ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION
c) Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412F00008
a) Construction of boulder bank protection with 1 u. boulder spurdike - ARCP @ Brgy. Legaspi Tayug CONSTRUCTION/Tayug,Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
b) R.Z. RONCAL CONST. & TRADING
c) Agno Flood Control System,Region I
d) DPWH

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a) Construction of 2 u. boulder spurdikes and boulder bank protection Agno River Control at Brgy. Barangobong Tayug CONSTRUCTION/Tayug,Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
b) MCB CONSTRUCTION & SUPPLY
c) Agno Flood Control System,Region I
d) DPWH

010412F00005
a) Straightening of River Channel Agno River Control Project at Sitio san Patricio Brgy. Barangobong Tayug CONSTRUCTION/Tayug,Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
b) MCB CONSTRUCTION & SUPPLY
c) Agno Flood Control System,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00076
a) Reconstruction of Pangasinan-Nueva Ecija Road, K0176+000 - K0176+875 PAVED (CONCRETE) TO PAVED (CONCRETE)/Districtwide-6th Congressional District,Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
b) DAMICO BUILDERS & SUPPLIES
c) Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412F00006
a) Restoration of Dike with protection works Agno River Control Project at Brgy. Guzon Tayug CONSTRUCTION/Tayug,Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
b) R.Z. RONCAL CONST. & TRADING
c) Agno Flood Control System,Region I
d) DPWH

010412F00003
a) Construction of 2 u. boulder boulder bank protection Agno River Control at Brgy. Sabangan San Nicolas CONSTRUCTION/San Nicolas,Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
b) JHI CONSTRUCTION & SUPPLY
c) Agno Flood Control System,Region I
d) DPWH

010412F00002
a) Construction of 2 u. boulder boulder bank protection Agno River Control at Brgy. Carmay, Rosales CONSTRUCTION/Rosales,Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
b) RLK CONSTRUCTION AND BUILDERS
c) Agno Flood Control System,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00086
a) Pangasinan-Zambales Road, K0348+000 - K0350+349 PAVED (CONCRETE) TO PAVED (CONCRETE)/Districtwide-2nd Congressional District,Pangasinan 2nd District Engineering Office,Region I
b) JASA BUILDERS
c) Pangasinan 2nd District Engineering Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00040
a) Sapang Bridge along Pangasinan-Tarlac Road CONSTRUCTION OF NEW BRIDGE/Districtwide-2nd Congressional District,Pangasinan 2nd District Engineering Office,Region I
b) ROADTECH CONSTRUCTION
c) Pangasinan 2nd District Engineering Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00017
a) Rabon Bridge along Pangasinan-La Union Inter Prov'l Road, Pangasinan CONSTRUCTION OF NEW BRIDGE/Districtwide-2nd Congressional District,Pangasinan 2nd District Engineering Office,Region I
b) ROADTECH CONSTRUCTION
c) Pangasinan 2nd District Engineering Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00063
a) Carlos P. Romulo Bridge along Camiling-Wawa-Bayambang-Malasiqui-Sta. Barbara Road, Bayambang RETROFITTING/REHABILITATION/STRENGTHENING/Bayambang,Pangasinan Sub-District Engineering Office,Region I
b) ALCEL CONSTRUCTION
c) Pangasinan Sub-District Engineering Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00058
a) Pangasinan-Tarlac Road, K0197+729 - K0198+510 PAVED (CONCRETE) TO PAVED (CONCRETE)/Districtwide-2nd Congressional District,Pangasinan 2nd District Engineering Office,Region I
b) BERSON'S CONSTRUCTION & TRADING
c) Pangasinan 2nd District Engineering Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00080
a) Bakit-Bakit Jct.-Umingan Road, K0180+538 - K0182+000 PAVED (CONCRETE) TO PAVED (CONCRETE)/Districtwide-6th Congressional District,Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
b) AQUINO-DELA CRUZ ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION
c) Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00034
a) Cariño Bridge along Pangasinan-Nueva Vizcaya Road CONSTRUCTION OF NEW BRIDGE/Districtwide-6th Congressional District,Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
b) HIGH STRENGTH DEV. CORPORATION
c) Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00030
a) Urdaneta Jct-Dagupan-Lingayen Road, K0207+(-259)-K0209+000 PAVED (CONCRETE) TO PAVED (CONCRETE)/Districtwide-2nd Congressional District,Pangasinan 2nd District Engineering Office,Region I
b) BET CONSTRUCTION & SUPPLY
c) Pangasinan 2nd District Engineering Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00062
a) Widening of Quintana Bridge along Camiling-Wawa-Bayambang-Malasiqui-Sta. Barbara Road,, Malasiqui CONSTRUCTION OF NEW BRIDGE/Malasiqui,Pangasinan Sub-District Engineering Office,Region I
b) BERSON'S CONSTRUCTION & TRADING
c) Pangasinan Sub-District Engineering Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00014
a) Widening of Camiling-Wawa-Bayambang-Malasiqui -Sta. Barbara, Malasiqui Section PAVED (CONCRETE) TO PAVED (CONCRETE)/DistrictWide,Pangasinan Sub-District Engineering Office,Region I
b) ARCINUE COMMERCIAL
c) Pangasinan Sub-District Engineering Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00038
a) Widening of Camiling-Wawa-Bayambang-Malasiqui -Sta. Barbara, Bayambang Section PAVED (CONCRETE) TO PAVED (CONCRETE)/DistrictWide,Pangasinan Sub-District Engineering Office,Region I
b) KENWOOD CONSTRUCTION ENTERPRISES
c) Pangasinan Sub-District Engineering Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00031
a) Cabalting Bridge along Villasis-Malasiqui Road, Malasiqui, Pangasinan CONSTRUCTION OF NEW BRIDGE/DistrictWide,Pangasinan Sub-District Engineering Office,Region I
b) 3RD ROCK BUILDERS AND SUPPLIES
c) Pangasinan Sub-District Engineering Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00002
a) Turac Bridge along Carmen Jct CONSTRUCTION OF NEW BRIDGE/DistrictWide,Pangasinan Sub-District Engineering Office,Region I
b) RAM 10 CONSTRUCTION
c) Pangasinan Sub-District Engineering Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00021
a) Widening of Manila North Road (Urdaneta-Binalonan Section) including RROW, Binalonan PAVED (CONCRETE) TO PAVED (CONCRETE)/Districtwide-5th Congressional District,Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
b) T.J. VELASCO CONSTRUCTION & SUPPLY
c) Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00064
a) Camiling-Wawa-Bayambang-Malasiqui-Sta. Barbara Road, K0197+289 - K0198+426 PAVED (CONCRETE) TO PAVED (CONCRETE)/DistrictWide,Pangasinan Sub-District Engineering Office,Region I
b) BERSON'S CONSTRUCTION & TRADING
c) Pangasinan Sub-District Engineering Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00059
a) Camiling-Wawa-Bayambang K0187+000 - KO188+000 PAVED (CONCRETE) TO PAVED (CONCRETE)/DistrictWide,Pangasinan Sub-District Engineering Office,Region I
b) PANGASINAN NEW WILSON LUMBER & CONSTRUCTION
c) Pangasinan Sub-District Engineering Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00010
a) Urdaneta Jct-Lingayen Road via Zambales, K0376+000 - K0376+650 & K0376+698 - K0377+021 PAVED (CONCRETE) TO PAVED (CONCRETE)/Districtwide-2nd Congressional District,Pangasinan 2nd District Engineering Office,Region I
b) ROADTECH CONSTRUCTION
c) Pangasinan 2nd District Engineering Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00016
a) Dagupan-Bonuan-San Fabian Road, Chainage 0000 - Chainage 1020 PAVED (CONCRETE) TO PAVED (CONCRETE)/Districtwide-2nd Congressional District,Pangasinan 2nd District Engineering Office,Region I
b) BET CONSTRUCTION & SUPPLY
c) Pangasinan 2nd District Engineering Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00025
a) Access Road to Alaminos Airport, Pangasinan PAVED (CONCRETE) TO PAVED (CONCRETE)/DistrictWide,Pangasinan 1st District Engineering Office,Region I
b) ALCEL CONSTRUCTION
c) Pangasinan 1st District Engineering Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00007
a) Pangasinan-Zambales Road, KO303+488 to KO303+778, KO312+000 to KO313+330 & KO319+733 to KO320+005 PAVED (CONCRETE) TO PAVED (CONCRETE)/DistrictWide,Pangasinan 1st District Engineering Office,Region I
b) JASA BUILDERS
c) Pangasinan 1st District Engineering Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010411H00014
a) Banila Bridge along San Nicolas-San Quintin-Umingan-Guimba Road, Umingan CONSTRUCTION OF NEW BRIDGE/Umingan,Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
b) ROADTECH CONSTRUCTION
c) Regional Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010409H00021
a) Improvement of access roads to Alaminos Airport GRAVEL TO PAVED/Alaminos City,Pangasinan 1st District Engineering Office,Region I
b) ALCEL CONSTRUCTION
c) Pangasinan 1st District Engineering Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010409H00031
a) Construction of road, Villasis, including ROW GRAVEL TO PAVED/Villasis,Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
b) B.M.K. CONSTRUCTION
c) Regional Office,Region I
d) DPWH

915bungohunter

May 23rd, 2012, 09:05 AM

saintm

May 24th, 2012, 04:15 PM

yung sa olanen bani diba me itatayo rin dun o di natuloy
Yup! Meron rin sa Mangatarem at Bolinao, hindi pa nilalabas yung feasibility study.

saintm

May 25th, 2012, 03:33 PM

BSL meets with DPWH engineers to solve the floodings in Dagupan City (http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.331980950171725.41150.150200591683096&type=1)
05/24/2012

http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/s720x720/148914_331981023505051_150200591683096_471301_1666952740_n.jpg

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/s720x720/576551_331981346838352_150200591683096_471307_388025779_n.jpg

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s720x720/579704_331981400171680_2024778378_n.jpg

saintm

May 26th, 2012, 07:56 AM

Estrella-Irrigation gives the farmers reason to plant

May 20, 2012 at 9:14 pm
Brando Cortez

SAN NICOLAS-Irrigation projects meant to carry water from the re-regulating pond at the San Roque Dam are now in full blast to meet the government’s rice self sufficiency program.
It was during last year’s budget hearing when Abono Party-list Rep. Robert Raymund M. Estrella Jr. and chairman Rosendo So lobbied for the national government to fund irrigation projects in eastern Pangasinan to take advantage of the water that will be impounded by the re-regulating pond.
Estrella said the bottomline of providing irrigation projects is to give reason for farmers to plant.
“Binibigyan natin ng reason ang magsasaka na magtanim…Magtatanim sila dahil kikita sila,” Estrella said. “Para ano pa na magtanim sila kung hindi naman sila kikita?”
“Kapag may kita ang farmers…may pambili sila ng pang-araw araw na pangangailangan, may pera sila para sa pag-aaral ng mga anak nila.” Estrella said. “
Estrella said the government should take advantage of the resources available in the province.
“Unlike other provinces, the province of Pangasinan is blessed with a good source of water for irrigation purposes -he San Roque Dam.” Estrella said. “The water will be there and we need new irrigation canals where the water will flow to the farms.”
“As of now we are only utilizing 30 percent of the water from the San Roque Dam,” Estrella said. “May 70 percent na idle water, gagamitin natin ang tubig na nito para sa irrigation.
Pangasinan Federation of Irrigators Association President Oftociano Manalo said he worked with presidents of different irrigators associations to petition the government through the Abono Party-list to make representations with them during the budget hearing.
“Kasama ako noon na nagsubmit ng petition at nagsalita sa budget hearing for funding ng irrigation projects sa eastern Pangasinan,” Manalo said. “Around 4,500 hectares ang bagong mapapatubigan, ibig sabihin niyan ay additional palay production para sa mga magsasaka ng Pangasinan.”
Estrella said that he conceptualized the project with consultation from NIA Agno River Integrated Irrigation Project Office.
NIA ARIIP Project Manager Reynaldo Mencias said that the irrigation projects complementing the re-regulating pond are meant to increase yield in palay and cropping intensity.
Mencias said crop intensity is when the farmers in the newly irrigated areas will have additional cropping seasons resulting to increased incomes due to the introduction of year round water supply to their farms.
“The water from the re-regulating pond will be channeled through the new irrigation systems and this means that the farmers can plant palay for at most 3 cropping seasons,” Mencias said. “If the farmers had one cropping season only, now they can go for 3 cropping seasons.”

http://northwatch.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/estrella-irrigation-gives-the-farmers-reason-to-plant/#more-8115

saintm

June 3rd, 2012, 10:06 AM

DPWH - Not Yet Started PROJECTS IN PANGASINAN (http://www.dpwh.gov.ph/infrastructure/pms/01.asp?es=nys)

Construction soon

*Construction of Urdaneta Western By-Pass Road
* Judge Jose de Venecia Sr. Ave. WIDENING

010412H00075
a) Pangasinan-La Union Inter-Provincial Road, K0382+330 - K0385+600 CONCRETE REBLOCKING WITH ASPHALT OVERLAY/Districtwide-4th Congressional District,Pangasinan 2nd District Engineering Office,Region I
b)
c) Regional Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00003
a) Sn Nicolas-Natividad-Sn Quintin-Umingan-Guimba Road, K0222+000 - K0223+000, K0224+000 - K0224+194, K0227+000 - K0227+632, K0229+462 - K0231+054 & K0232+000 - K0234+000 PAVED (CONCRETE) TO PAVED (CONCRETE)/Districtwide-6th Congressional District,Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
b)
c) Regional Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00005
a) Pangasinan-Zambales Road, KO324+035 to KO324+895, KO325+108 to KO326+552, KO327+103 to KO327+363, KO329+535 to KO332+(-084), KO337+535 to KO337+825 & KO339+700 to KO339+780 PAVED (CONCRETE) TO PAVED (CONCRETE)/DistrictWide,Pangasinan 1st District Engineering Office,Region I
b)
c) Regional Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00011
a) Construction of Urdaneta Western By-Pass Road including RROW, Urdaneta City PAVED (CONCRETE) TO PAVED (CONCRETE)/Districtwide-5th Congressional District,Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
b)
c) Regional Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00013
a) Villasis-Malasiqui-San Carlos Road, K0174+461 - K0175+000 & K0177+000 - K0179+801 PAVED (CONCRETE) TO PAVED (CONCRETE)/Districtwide-5th Congressional District,Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
b)
c) Regional Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00022
a) Udiao Bridge along Bakit-Bakit Jct. Umingan Road CONSTRUCTION OF NEW BRIDGE/Districtwide-6th Congressional District,Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
b)
c) Pangasinan 3rd District Engineering Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00032
a) San Jose Bridge along Pangasinan-Zambales rd CONSTRUCTION OF NEW BRIDGE/Districtwide-2nd Congressional District,Pangasinan 2nd District Engineering Office,Region I
b)
c) Pangasinan 2nd District Engineering Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00056
a) Pangasinan-Tarlac Road, K0168+859-K0171+323, K0171+424-K0173+332, K0173+490-K0177+000, K0177+000-K0177+088, K0177+088-K0190+058, K0190+130-K0190+540 PAVED (CONCRETE) TO PAVED (CONCRETE)/Districtwide-2nd Congressional District,Pangasinan 2nd District Engineering Office,Region I
b)
c) Regional Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00072
a) Urdaneta-Jct. Dagupan-Lingayen Road (Diversion Perez Blvd.), K0208+931 - K0210+251 ASPHALT OVERLAY (30 MM THICK)/Districtwide-4th Congressional District,Pangasinan 2nd District Engineering Office,Region I
b) BET CONSTRUCTION & SUPPLY
c) Regional Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00073
a) Urdaneta Jct. Dagupan-Lingayen via Zambales Road, K0374+909 to K0375+387.65 RAISING OF GRADE WITH DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENT/Districtwide-4th Congressional District,Pangasinan 2nd District Engineering Office,Region I
b) ALCEL CONSTRUCTION
c) Regional Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010412H00074
a) Judge Jose de Venecia Sr. Ave., K0208+480 - K0209+470 WIDENING - PAVED/Districtwide-4th Congressional District,Pangasinan 2nd District Engineering Office,Region I
b) B.M.K. CONSTRUCTION
c) Regional Office,Region I
d) DPWH

010212H00010
a) Manila North Road, K0316+ 929 - K0317+ 358 & K0317 + 621 - K0320 + 208 PAVED (CONCRETE) TO PAVED (CONCRETE)/DistrictWide,Ilocos Sur 2nd District Engineering Office,Region I
b)
c) Regional Office,Region I
d) DPWH

:banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:

saintm

June 12th, 2012, 04:57 PM

Dagupan draws up action plan for Sinocalan river system rehab
By Venus H. Sarmiento
Tuesday 12th of June 2012 TweetFacebookYahooEmailShareThis DAGUPAN CITY, June 12 (PIA) -- The governing board of the Sinocalan river system Water Quality Management Area (WQMA) here has drawn up an action plan that would govern the speedy rehabilitation of the watercourse.

In a statement released by the City Information Office, the multi-sectoral board has formed two ad hoc committees that would devise rules and establish the regulations and plan for the project in a meeting last June 6 at the City Mayor’s Office conference room.

Among the issues the board aims to resolve are disposal of garbage in rivers, river bank encroachment, relocation of settlers along the riverbanks, open defecation, effluence of septic tanks, seepage of untreated wastewater from households, commercial establishments and piggeries and siltation.

City Agriculturist Emma Molina, one of the city’s representatives in the board, said the governing rules will be expressed in the action plan to address the concerns in revitalizing the river area.

Representing the action plan panel was city health officer Leonard Carbonell while executive secretary to the Mayor Albertini De Guzman served as the city’s representative in the governing rules committee.

Also present during the conference were Department of Natural Resources-Environmental Management Board (DENR-EMB) Region I director Joel Salvador and representatives from concerned local and national government and non-government agencies and the academe.

The CIO report added that the teams will present the plan on June 14 in preparation for the executive committee meeting on June 15.

The local WQMA was instituted by DENR to focus interventions on specific water quality issues of the Sinocalan river system that snakes through the municipalities of Binalonan, Sta. Barbara, Calasiao, Mangaldan, Malasiqui and Binmaley and the cities of Urdaneta, San Carlos and Dagupan. (ANL/VHS-PIA 1 Pangasinan with reports from CIO)

http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=411339387887

saintm

June 20th, 2012, 04:07 PM

DPWH assures Novo Vizcayanos of road projects' completion by 2016

BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya, June 20 (PNA) – National and secondary road projects in this province are set to be completed by 2016, said Department of Public Works and Highways(DPWH) officers here Wednesday.

Engr. Perfecto Urban, chief of the planning division of the DPWH’s 2nd engineering district said their office has been instructed to ensure that all secondary national roads must be finished by 2016 while all arterial roads in Nueva Vizcaya should be completed by 2014.

“This is the instruction of President Benigno Simeon Aquino III so that by the end of his term, all major national roads in the country will be used by various sectors,” Urban said.

He added that by 2013, more than 175 million will be released to their office to carry out necessary works for the completion of major national roads in Nueva Vizcaya.

“This amount will be released solely to our district but another fund will also be released to our DPWH first engineering district,” Urban stressed.

Urban said this year, their engineering district is presently working on the Nueva Vizcaya – Pangasinan Road Project and the construction of three major bridges in Kasibu town, particularly in barangay Papaya with two bridges and in barangay Antutot.

He added they have just completed road rehabilitation projects in Bambang town and the P50-million Bambang-kasibu widening/flood control projects, among others.

The following projects are also being undertaken such as the road rehabilitations in Diadi town, barangay Bascaran in Solano town, widening of the Solano national highway, asphalt overlay of the national road in barangay Vista Hills in Bayombong town and in Bagabag town, among others.

“Rest assured that these projects will be completed as scheduled by our President so that our constituents will benefit fully from these projects,” Urban said. (PNA)
LAP/LOR/SCD/BMEbreo/mba

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&nid=2&rid=433827

saintm

June 20th, 2012, 04:12 PM

Shahani sees big ticket projects for Pangasinan
Philippine Information Agency
By Danny O. Sagun

The long-planned shortcut road from Pangasinan to Nueva Vizcaya may yet be realized with the participation of the private sector in the implementation of major infrastructure projects.

Sixth district Board Member Ranjit Shahani said the Valleverde trail passing through the boundary towns of San Nicolas in Pangasinan to Sta. Fe in Nueva Vizcaya may be fully developed into a national road and connect it to the highways in the two provinces.

Built as a toll road like the expressways, the private investor would recover its money in due time, he said.

Under construction now is the Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union expressway (TPLEX) which will connect with the Subic-Clark-Tarlac expressway (SCTEX).

Shahani said the proposed Pangasinan-Nueva Vizcaya toll road that will connect with the TPLEX will have a huge impact in the development of eastern Pangasinan. He said he was confident the province may yet have two more cities with Rosales and Tayug as likely candidates as a result of booming business in the area.

The two towns are already the business centers in the eastern corridor.

Boundary barangay Malico in San Nicolas with its Baguio-like weather may also be developed into a major tourism or vacation area, he said.

Under the public-private partnership program of the Aquino administration, he said the province can realize more major projects with the eastern front for agricultural development, the central portion for eco-tourism and the west for light industries and tourism.

Under construction in Sual town is a seaport, while a domestic airport is rising in Alaminos City which hosts the famous Hundred Islands. (ANL/DOS-PIA 1 Pangasinan)

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/baguio/local-news/2011/09/10/highway-pangasinan-nueva-ecija-proposed-178512

krrra

June 20th, 2012, 07:41 PM

^^ is that proposed road project starts at tplex carmen a 2 lane road??
how about branching tplex to lingayen?

saintm

June 26th, 2012, 06:50 PM

Alaminos eyes rainwater collection system
Posted by Online on Jun 26th, 2012 // No Comment

Philippines – The Alaminos City Water District (ACWD) in Pangasinan is looking the feasibility of harnessing rainwater as possible additional source of water specially for the summer period and the installation of water supply facility to cater to tourists visiting the world-famous Hundred Islands on the Lingayen Gulf.

This was learned from ACWD general manager Felipe Pagador who with some members of the water district board and management staff went up to Baguio City recently to inspect and study the existing rainwater collection facility of the Baguio Water District (BWD) on Mt. Sto. Tomas.
Pagador said with the assistance of engineers from the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA), the water district has located at least two possible places in the upland areas of Alaminos which can be developed into rain water collection sites.
The collected water during the rainy months could augment the existing deep well sources during summer and the rain-less months of the year to serve the need of the water district’s more than 12,000 concessionaires.

http://www.tempo.com.ph/2012/alaminos-eyes-rainwater-collection-system/

saintm

July 11th, 2012, 05:47 PM

Pangasinan Fivestar Bus Co. Teardown
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saintm

July 18th, 2012, 03:53 PM

Alaminos eyes rainwater collection system

Philippines – The Alaminos City Water District (ACWD) in Pangasinan is looking the feasibility of harnessing rainwater as possible additional source of water specially for the summer period and the installation of water supply facility to cater to tourists visiting the world-famous Hundred Islands on the Lingayen Gulf.

This was learned from ACWD general manager Felipe Pagador who with some members of the water district board and management staff went up to Baguio City recently to inspect and study the existing rainwater collection facility of the Baguio Water District (BWD) on Mt. Sto. Tomas.
Pagador said with the assistance of engineers from the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA), the water district has located at least two possible places in the upland areas of Alaminos which can be developed into rain water collection sites.
The collected water during the rainy months could augment the existing deep well sources during summer and the rain-less months of the year to serve the need of the water district’s more than 12,000 concessionaires.

http://www.tempo.com.ph/2012/alaminos-eyes-rainwater-collection-system/

saintm

July 19th, 2012, 07:21 PM

P11.25B ARIIP project in Pangasinan set for completion by year-end
July 18, 2012 11:34 pm
By Leonardo V. Micua
SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union, July 18 — Some 34,450 hectares of land in Pangasinan will soon be provided year-round irrigation water when the Agno River Integrated Irrigation Project (ARIIP) is completed by December this year.

The Regional Development Council–National Economic Development Authority (RDC-NEDA) said the project, implemented by the National Irrigation Administration (NIA), was financed at a total cost of P11.25 billion sourced out from the country’s loan from China Import and Export Bank.

The project involved the construction of giant re-regulating pond to where water from the San Roque Multi-Purpose dam will be impounded, irrigation and drainage facilities and appurtenant structures of the Agno River Irrigation System (ARIS) and the Agno Dipalo River Irrigation System (ADRIS).

When completed, the re-regulating pond will store water being discharged by the SRMP when it is generating some 400 megawatts of electric power for the Luzon Grid.
Part of the total cost of the project financed the acquisition of row-of-way (ROW) for the irrigation canals and the organization and training of members of the 125 Farmers Irrigators Associations (FIAs) in 17 towns in eastern and central Pangasinan as well as in northern Tarlac and north-western Nueva Ecija.

RDC-NEDA said as of May this year, the project was already 83.03 percent complete.
When fully operational, it will enable farmers in Pangasinan to plant rice three times a year, instead of only once, boosting rice harvests in the province that is already considered third largest in the whole country. (PNA)
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July 25th, 2012, 04:00 PM

P4.527-B NIA pond in Pangasinan nears finish
WEDNESDAY, 25 JULY 2012 19:15 ORLY GUIRAO / CORRESPONDENT
SAN MANUEL, Pangasinan—The standoff in the Panatag Shoal of the Kalayaan Group of Islands, a maritime territory claimed by both China and the Philippines, is not in any way affecting the completion of the 85-hectare irrigation reservoir of the 560-megawatt multipurpose San Roque power dam here. The reservoir costs P4.527 billion.

Already 95-percent complete, preparations are underway for the inauguration of the facility being built mainly from a $89.1-million soft loan with China Export-Import Bank.

The Chinese contractor, China Camce Engineering Ltd., which won the bidding at a contract price of $93.8 million, is now rushing up the installation of the electrical and mechanical systems for the giant pond’s valve gates and spillways, Reynaldo Mencias, project manager of the Agno River Integrated Irrigation Program (ARIIP), told the BusinessMirror. ARIIP is an adjunct agency of the Department of Agriculture.

“Except for the twin vital systems, the design of which was recently revised to conform with the volume of water intake and release, all major infrastructure works have been completed,” Mencias said.

The re-regulating pond that is expected to fully irrigate 34,450 hectares of farmlands on opposite banks of the Agno River covered under ARIIP will be commissioned in December 2012 in time for the second cropping season, Mencias said.

Once operational, the pond will increase crop yield and cropping intensity by 150 percent, according to a study by ARIIP.

The contractor started works on the project in early 2010 and latest reports said $80.02 million has been spent in finishing the sprawling pond structure, upstream Ogle weir, dam intakes, spillway and operation house buildings on both banks of the river.

Using the national government’s counterpart fund of P6.698 billion, ARIIP is rushing up the rehabilitation of 67.06 kilometers of existing main irrigation canals, along with 327.85 kilometers of lateral canals.

Some 280 kilometers of farm-to-market roads are also in simultaneous rehabilitation works in anticipation of the increased farming activities within ARIIP’s service area covering 28,207 farm families in 18 towns of Pangasinan.

At a total cost of P11.2 billion, ARIIP as an irrigation component of the San Roque multipurpose dam, started in November 2006. The project is expected to go on full-swing services on or before December 2013 with the completion of rehabilitation works on all of ARIIP’s facilities.

“As a reservoir, the re-regulating pond augments the dam’s flood prevention component as it will store 5 million cubic meters of water siphoned from the main dam structure,” Mencias said, adding the stored volume of water will be released for irrigation via the pond’s sluice way at an average of 300 cu. meter per second.

With the reservoir, the provincial government intends to siphon water from the facility to solve a water crisis now gripping households in 20 coastal towns of the province.

Provincial Administrator Rafael Baraan said a memorandum of agreement signed recently with the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) will allow the flow of at least 5 cu. cm. of water from the reservoir to the Pangasinan Bulk Water Supply Project which the provincial government has committed to build.

Under the scheme, the siphoned water will be rationed out to houses in towns and cities whose deep wells are now fast drying up and severely affected by salt-water intrusion.

On top of everything, Mencias said the reservoir will be a stable source of water needed in palay production, vegetable growing and root-crop farming.

http://businessmirror.com.ph/component/content/article/53-agri-commodities/30393-p4527-b-nia-pond-in-pangasinan-nears-finish