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Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) Chairman and Administrator Wilma T. Eisma has expressed hope that later this week the Aparri Road where massive landslide occurred and killed one person during the height of weather disturbances would be cleared.
Eisma said the agency’s technical group estimated that it would take about 400 dump-truck loads to finally clear about 4,000 cubic meters of muddy soil that collapsed from a hill on July 23.
“We are already working from both ends of the landslide to clear it faster, but at the rate the crew can go with the continuous rain, clearing operations that started last Monday may be completed only by Friday,” she said.
While there were enough heavy equipment that could be used, Eisma said SBMA lacks manpower.
“We need alternate operators because work continues until night time,” she said.
At least three companies in the Freeport were affected by landslides, while three others reported flooding that damaged some facilities, the SBMA Business and Investment Department said.
Two persons were buried alive during the landslide at the Aparri Road. One was pulled out alive from the rubble after three hours, but the other one died.
Multiple landslides occurred inside the Freeport as heavy rains from Tropical Depression Josie and the southwest monsoon-soaked the place and the surrounding areas.
source: centralluzon.politics.com.ph