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CITY, SOUTH KOREA (via Internet) - The Bohol delegation undergoing the training
course on Water Resources Development and Management for Philippine Officials
started yesterday on a high note that the course can result to a transfer of technology
from the Korean Water Academy (K-Water) in this tourist city to the province of
Bohol.
The
course has an inspiring motto: Learn, Act and Achieve. | |  ON
STUDY TOUR. Gov. Erico Aumentado (3rd from left) meets with Korean Water Academy
Director General Kyung-Soo Lee (extreme left) for a briefing and exchange of notes
before plunging into the more serious business of classroom lectures and field
trips on the week-long Water Development and Management for Philippine Officials
training. With him are, from left, Engr. Modesto Membreve, Bohol Irrigation Project
Stage 2 (BHIP 2) manager and Engr. Abello Losaria, BHIP 2 assistant manager. |
Gov.
Erico Aumentado heads the delegation, co-headed by Engr. Modesto Membreve, Bohol
Irrigation Project Stage 2 (BHIP 2) manager and soon to be designated National
Irrigation Administration (NIA) Central Visayas Regional Office manager in Tagbilaran
City. The team left Sunday for South Korea.
Before
plunging into serious classroom lectures by professors and experts, and field
trips this week, the delegation met with K-Water Academy Director General Kyung-Soo
Lee for a briefing and exchanging of notes on the project funded by the Korean
International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and K-Water Resources Corporation.
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note, Aumentado had secured a grant of US$1 million from KOICA during a visit
to Seoul on October 30, 2007 for the feasibility study on the upgrading of Malinao
Dam of BHIP 1 in Pilar town. The upgrading jumpstarts a series of dams for BHIP
3, that can irrigate about 1,700 hectares of additional rice lands in Bohol.
The
feasibility study has been done by K-Water Resources Corporation which implements
and manages South Korea's bulk water related projects - potable domestic water,
hydroelectric, tidal power, flood control, water management and conservation.
Aside
from Aumentado and Membreve, the Bohol delegation is composed of Engr. Abello
Losaria, BHIP 2 assistant manager; Engr. Evelyn Putong, BHIP 1 assistant manager;
Provincial Agriculturist Liza Quirog, rapporteur; and Mrs. Grenie C. Aumentado. |
They will
visit various K-Water projects such as multipurpose dams and the Sihwa Tidal Power
Plant located in Gyeonggi province, as requested by the governor who is working
with the Department of Energy (DoE) on the possibility of tapping the tidal power
of the Tagbilaran-Dauis channel and the Basiao channel between Ubay and President
Garcia towns.
The
group is also slated to confer with the officials of KOICA and the Economic Development
Cooperation Fund (EDCF) of South Korea for the funding requirement of the Malinao
Dam upgrading and the Bohol Circumferential Road Improvement Project Phase 3 (BCRIP
3) which the Bohol governor has been pushing for implementation.
The
BCRIP 3 covers Panglao island, the Tagbilaran Bypass and the Baclayon Diversionary
Road as Package I and the Anda Peninsula Highway traversing thru the Guindulman,
Anda, Cogtong in Candijay, Mabini and Ubay seacoast as Package 2.
The
provincial government under Aumentado's governorship has paved with concrete cement
vital road sections of Guindulman-Anda, Candijay-Mabini, and Poblacion, Ubay to
Tapal Wharf. (Liza M. Quirog)
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