Request for fund assistance from GMA for  Libmanan-Cabusao dam topographic survey ok’d

   Libmanan-Cabusao Dam Project have prompted four municipal mayors of the project area to pass a joint resolution requesting President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to finance a much-needed topographic survey needed in crafting action plans on flood-mitigation measures for the affected inhabitants. The mayors asked for a P7 M funding assistance for the survey of the dam’s upstream, which request was favorably endorsed by the RDC5 during its September 3 meeting.

   The consensus arose during a meeting called by ASec Tomasito B. Monzon, Project Director of the Bicol River Basin and Watershed Management Project (BRBWMP),  last July 14, 2009 that was attended by representatives of the National Irrigation Administration (NIA), the LGUs concerned and other involved line agencies.

   While the construction of the Libmanan-Cabusao Dam is on its initial stage of implementation by the NIA,  Mayor Raul M. Matamorosa of Lupi expressed apprehension over the flood mitigation measures to be undertaken by the line agencies,  stated the joint resolution.

   There are areas on the dam’s upstream that will be submerged because of the project, and some of those areas are inhabited. To safeguard the lives and properties of the inhabitants of Lupi and Sipocot, the resolution cited the need to conduct a topographic survey to identify those areas inhabited in order to take possible relocation.

   The dam construction is being implemented by the NIA to address the irrigation needs of Libmanan and the neighboring towns of Cabusao, Lupi and Sipocot.