Mt Prov DPWD head urges study of sinking Sagada road

By Gina Dizon 

SAGADA, Mountain Province --- The sinking road here at barangay Antadao along the Dantay-Sagada road  prompted  Mountain Province  District  Engineering Officer  Wilbur Likigan to call for an indepth study on earth movements in this eastern part of Sagada.

In a press conference, Likigan, an engineer, noted some road sections in Antadao cracked when these were just recently concreted.

Likigan said the observation of sinking on this part of the national road  was earlier forwarded to the  Environmental Management Bureau  of the Department of Environment and Natural  Resources (DENR) who suggested that “appropriate” measures be  done.

The MPDEO is currently doing maintenance measures to make the road be passable. 

Likigan sees possible relocation of the road should studies recommend the need. 

In said road section, two big rocks fell from mountain slopes  in different  dates of this  year caused  vehicles to momentarily stop while the  fallen rocks were fractured out of the road way.

In the same stretch of the thoroughfare, a road upgrading project blasts limestone rocks to widen the way. 

The certificate of non-coverage issued by the EMB to DPWH-MPDEO for the conduct of the road upgrading project  ‘does not  exempt the grantee from compliance with applicable  environmental laws’.
It was learned that a municipal ordinance prohibits blasting of limestone rocks in any part of the town of Sagada. 

In said press conference, DPWH regional construction section head engineer Clifton Valencerina said the proposal for an indepth study shall be forwarded by DPWH to the  DENR. 


Antadao is a recipient of the core shelter housing assistance program of the Department of  Social Welfare and Development where some residential areas were declared as vulnerable to erosion by the Mines and Geosciences Bureau of the DENR.