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Community-Based Flood Mitigation Management Program


The project, Community-Based Flood Mitigation Management Program or CBFMMP for
Bulacan was actually carried out from November 2005 to February 2006 with the
purpose of implementing an early warning monitoring system for the province in
terms of its flood disaster mitigation activities. However, planning and conditioning of
the planned program for the province started out as early as late quarter of 2004. It
was an off-shoot of the flood events that affected the Pampanga River Basin as a
result of Tropical disturbances Marce, Winnie and Yoyong, in August, November
and December 2004, respectively, in which a large part of the province was
inundated. The project was mainly funded by the Provincial Government of Bulacan
through its Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office . Technical
aspects of the program, particularly determination of location of monitoring sites,
river assessment levels, methods of observation, and other related activities were
carried out by personnel of the Pampanga River Flood Forecasting and Warning Center
(PRFFWC) of the Flood Forecasting Branch of PAGASA.
The nature of the program was to have a non-structural, community-based, holistic
approach to flood disaster mitigation aspects. Practically, the program encompasses
hydrological monitoring, information exchange and flood warning, and the disaster
preparedness and response activities as applied to a certain community or to the subbasin concerned. Deviant and localized flood events have also been considered in the
program. It was designed and carried out with one main purpose in mind a
flood disaster-resilientand disaster-prepared people of the Province of Bulacan.
The program was made possible through the contributory efforts of the following
government agencies, primarily the Provincial Government of Bulacan, the Provincial
Administrator's Office, Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office, the
Liga ng mga Barangay of Bulacan, the PRFFWC of FFB, PAGASA, and other local
government agencies of the province of Bulacan.
It is through this program that the true essence of flood disaster mitigation was
realized, and that is, not only to keep the floodwaters away from the people but
also to keep the people away from the floodwaters.

Project Description
The Community-Based Flood Mitigation Management Program (CBFMMP) for the
Province of Bulacan is a non-structural flood mitigating means that encompasses
hydrological monitoring, information exchange and flood warning, and the disaster
preparedness and response phases as applied to a locality or a sub-basin area within
the Pampanga River Basin area, particularly the river systems within the Bulacan
province. It was conceived by the Pampanga River Flood Forecasting and Warning
Center (PRFFWC) and generally funded by the Provincial Government of Bulacan.
The system is composed of a network of rainfall and water level monitoring stations
and flood markers located strategically within the subject area and a local
(dedicated) communication system for data and information transfer between the
monitoring stations, the municipal/barangay disaster action teams, and the
operations center (provincial capitol and PRFFWC). The system shall be manned by
trained volunteer personnel of the municipality and/or barangay area concerned. The
social and moral responsibilities of the LGUs as well as of the local inhabitants in
terms of disaster mitigation aspects shall be enhanced through continued exchange of
information, dry-runs and drills, and regular disaster information (PIDs, etc.)
activities and the positive attitude of the PDRMMC personnel. This hopes to ensure the
sustainability aspect of the program.
The cost of the system, amounting to some P 250,000 worth of monitoring
instruments, field surveys and installations included, and partly some local
communications lines have been shouldered by the Province of Bulacan through the
PDRMMC with FFB, PRFFWC in particular, providing the technical aspect of the
program and training. The system is composed of 7 water level monitoring stations
that have been set-up along the Angat River (will act as a main back-up monitoring
and warning points during excess reservoir releases from Angat & Ipo Dams). Three
other river monitoring stations cover the other active tributaries within the province
and one in a major channel of the Pampanga River. Four rain gages were installed at
strategic locations within the province particularly in the eastern sections of the area
close to the Sierra Madre mountain range. Some 12 flood markers were placed in the
flood-prone areas of Hagonoy and Calumpit municipalities to complement the system.
River cross-sectioning for river dynamics to handle flood warnings were carried out as
part of the programs early warning stage. The training of the volunteer
municipal/barangay observers immediately followed after the hydrographic works.
This is, actually, the most critical part of the program. The effectiveness of the
system will rely mainly on the observers training comprehension. The operation of
the system is expected to start before mid-year of 2006 in preparation for the rainy
season.
The program will augment the present monitoring system of the PRFFWC, particularly
in the mid-eastern parts of the basin. It practically provides additional data support
for the Candaba swamp and other flood-prone areas of the Province of Pampanga.

Although the program does not have any of that state-of-art technology being used
nowadays, except probably the means of communication, its sustainability and
continued operations shall mainly be dependent on the dedication, commitment and
trust of the province on a non-structural flood mitigating system that they can
operate and call their very own and the continued support of the PRFFWC and its
interaction with the PDRMMC-Bulacan.

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