Benguet village to pilot landslide warning system
>> Friday, October 7, 2016
BAKUN, Benguet -- Barangay Poblacion here was
selected one of pilot sites for installation of landslide early warning system.
The Sangguniang
Panlalawigan granted authority to Gov. Crescencio Pacalso to forge a memorandum
of understanding with Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology
(PHILVOLCS), University of the Philippines, which holds the Intellectual Property
Right and the Bakun local government units, to
implement the so called Dynaslope Project or the Development of
Site Specific threshold for Deep-Seated Landslide and Slope Failures aimed to
develop and test early warning system protocols.
To be installed at
barangay Poblacion is a ground movement tracking device that records movement
of ground on actual time.
The project aims to
provide highly effective monitoring and early warning and information, develop
cost-effective monitoring and early warning system for landslides and empower
partners to lead in reducing risks from landslide hazards down to the barrage
level.
Funded by the
PHILVOLCS, the project does not entail financial counterpart from all levels of
LGUs but to extend assistance in the implementation of an early warning
protocol, conduct of at least one EWS protocol drill before December 16,
inclusion of landslide EWS protocol alert levels in the LGU’s contingency plan
and in the Disaster Risk Reduction Management Plan, and designation of key persons
in information dissemination. -- Susan Aro
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