Kapatagan MDRRMC alerted due to continuous rainfall

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PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur, Feb. 14 (PNA) –- Mayor Alan Lim of Kapatagan municipality in the nearby Lanao del Norte province has placed on alert its Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (MDRRMC) following continues rainfall since Wednesday.

Lim’s order came after the river in Barangay Lanipao, Lanao del Norte has overflowed due to continuous rainfall and has already submerged some 60 hectares of rice field in the area.

Lanipao barangay captain Therisa Abucay said the river started to overflow around 10 p.m. Wednesday that inundated the rice field as well as some of the residential area in her barangay.

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“Yesterday afternoon the water level was lower, But this morning the water level was observed to be going up slowly due to heavy rain,” Abucay said Friday.

She said the road from Barangay Lanipao to Barangay Cabasagan and Barangay Tunaan are not passable since the water from nearby river and irrigation canal overflowed.

No evacuation order has been issued but Lim has directed the MDRRMC to continue monitoring the situation. (PNA)
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