Makati installs flood monitoring devices in flood-prone areas

Makati City is bolstering its preparedness for floods with the installation of flood gauge devices in eight flood-prone barangays.

 

The city engineering department installed the devices in five barangays in District 1 and three in District 2, the city government said in a news release.

 

Mayor Jejomar Erwin Binay Jr. said some 100 more will be installed in other flood-prone areas throughout the city until next year.

 

Citing data from the city Department of Engineering and Public Works (DEPW), the city government said the devices are installed in barangays:

 

District 1:

 

District 2:

 

The city government installed its first weather monitoring station atop the Makati City Hall main building for localized monitoring and forecasting in 2011.

 

Six more stations are in place – in the barangay halls of San Lorenzo, Forbes Park, Pinagkaisahan, West Rembo and San Antonio, and at Ospital ng Makati in Pembo.

 

CCTV

 

The next step will be the installation of closed-circuit television systems in these areas to enable the central command center at City Hall (C3) to monitor flood levels.

 

Some 200 more CCTVs are due for installation in both districts early 2015 to augment the existing 115 CCTVs connected to Makati C3.

 

Also, they will install buoys that will trigger alarms once floods reach critical levels, to warn residents and the public.

 

For now, personnel from DEPW and the concerned barangays will conduct onsite monitoring of flood levels and report the status to C3.

 

Under the flood advisory system: