DPWH bares ongoing projects in Southern Leyte

MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, March 3 (PNA) -- The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has bared ongoing and newly-completed infrastructure projects in the province.

The DPWH Southern Leyte district engineering office is constructing 41 school buildings in various areas in this province to meet the needs of Kindergarten and 12 years of basic education (K to 12) program.

District Engineer Ma. Margarita C. Junia said during a project inspection with journalists that the entire project has a total of 179 classrooms, including six laboratories for technical-vocational skills training.

The new school buildings are mostly two-storey structures with three classrooms in each section and two restrooms on both floors.

Agas-Agas Bridge, considered as the country’s tallest, has undergone PHP70-million rehabilitation works last year on its concrete foundations through installation of gabions for protection.

There is also an ongoing improvement of 50-kilometer stretch of national road in Bontoc town, which is about 85 percent complete.

Another project is a zigzag road snaking through part of the Nacolod Mountain Range with a cost of PHP24 million that will be completed on April 9, 2016.

In Padre Burgos town, an 800-meter portion of the road will be expanded by two meters on both sides, funded by the Road Board with PHP10 million.

Construction of five-kilometer coastal road from Abuyog town in Leyte to Silago with an allocation of PHP10 million will start anytime this month.

The DPWH is also opening an alternative road in Pintuyan to reduce the risk of passing through the “saddle road.” 

Other Road Board-funded projects are PHP7 million in Bontoc town and PHP10 million in Saint Bernard town. (PNA)
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