TABUK CITY, Kalinga – Eleven packages under the SONA (state of the nation address) projects of the administration with a combined cost of P1.7B were simultaneously launched on March 30, 2009 during the groundbreaking of the new Canao Bridge at Calanan, this city.
Congressman Manuel Agayao said that the packages consist of the widening and pavement of the Bontoc-Tabuk-Tuguegarao Road from Tinglayan to Bulanao, this city, including the replacement of the 50-year old Canao Bridge which spans the Chico River.
Agyao said that the joint launching is in accordance with the austerity policy of President Gloria Arroyo.
Agyao said that the road projects are part of the program of Arroyo to improve the roads to the tourism areas in the country adding that the stretch from Mt. Data, Mtn. Province to Tuguegarao City is originally targeted to be completed before the end of her term on June 30, 2010.
“Our office gave the completion target as December this year,” Agyao said.
Regarding the new Canao Bridge which is a 280-meter long Prestressed Concrete Girder V Bridge composed of eight spans and seven piers, DPWH-CAR OIC Roy Manao said that the contract price is P160M exclusive of the approaches.
He called upon Agyao to work for the funding of the approaches and also for the covering of the old bridge so that it could be used as a picnic area “to serve it’s historical purpose.”
The engineering profession has acknowledged that a remarkable engineering feat attended the construction of the bridge in the late 50s.
Juanito Bolislis, a former journalist and one of the laborers during the construction of the US-PI Friendship Bridge which would be renamed Canao Bridge in 1997 in honor of Congressman Antonio Canao who first broached the idea of spanning the Chico River to facilitate travel to the Tabuk Valley, related during the groundbreaking that during the preparation of the foundation of Pier 3, all the engineers and work crew left for Tuguegarao City “for human necessity” or for a “good time.”
When they came back a few days later than scheduled, they gave the go signal for the concreting without checking the form works such that two weeks later, it was discovered that Pier 3 was misaligned with the other piers by .3 meter and was 2.6 meters away from where it is supposed to be.
The decision reached during a symposium called by then Public Works Secretary Florencio Moreno was to demolish the pier but project engineer Mauricio Buenaventura asked that he be given a month to correct his error.
The surrounding of the pier was excavated and then the underneath of the pier was drilled to give room to steel pipes to serve as rollers then the pier was moved into proper place with the use of mechanical jacks.
The feat was featured in an international engineering magazine as “the first time in the history of engineering that such a big volume of concrete and steel embedded five meters in the rock underground could be moved by mechanical means.”
Bolislis who incidentally owns the land on both sides of the western approach to the Canao Bridge was given a certificate of appreciation during the groundbreaking for donating 7,000 square meters for the approach of the new bridge which is a few meters downstream of the existing one. **By Estanislao Albano Jr., ZZW
Congressman Manuel Agayao said that the packages consist of the widening and pavement of the Bontoc-Tabuk-Tuguegarao Road from Tinglayan to Bulanao, this city, including the replacement of the 50-year old Canao Bridge which spans the Chico River.
Agyao said that the joint launching is in accordance with the austerity policy of President Gloria Arroyo.
Agyao said that the road projects are part of the program of Arroyo to improve the roads to the tourism areas in the country adding that the stretch from Mt. Data, Mtn. Province to Tuguegarao City is originally targeted to be completed before the end of her term on June 30, 2010.
“Our office gave the completion target as December this year,” Agyao said.
Regarding the new Canao Bridge which is a 280-meter long Prestressed Concrete Girder V Bridge composed of eight spans and seven piers, DPWH-CAR OIC Roy Manao said that the contract price is P160M exclusive of the approaches.
He called upon Agyao to work for the funding of the approaches and also for the covering of the old bridge so that it could be used as a picnic area “to serve it’s historical purpose.”
The engineering profession has acknowledged that a remarkable engineering feat attended the construction of the bridge in the late 50s.
Juanito Bolislis, a former journalist and one of the laborers during the construction of the US-PI Friendship Bridge which would be renamed Canao Bridge in 1997 in honor of Congressman Antonio Canao who first broached the idea of spanning the Chico River to facilitate travel to the Tabuk Valley, related during the groundbreaking that during the preparation of the foundation of Pier 3, all the engineers and work crew left for Tuguegarao City “for human necessity” or for a “good time.”
When they came back a few days later than scheduled, they gave the go signal for the concreting without checking the form works such that two weeks later, it was discovered that Pier 3 was misaligned with the other piers by .3 meter and was 2.6 meters away from where it is supposed to be.
The decision reached during a symposium called by then Public Works Secretary Florencio Moreno was to demolish the pier but project engineer Mauricio Buenaventura asked that he be given a month to correct his error.
The surrounding of the pier was excavated and then the underneath of the pier was drilled to give room to steel pipes to serve as rollers then the pier was moved into proper place with the use of mechanical jacks.
The feat was featured in an international engineering magazine as “the first time in the history of engineering that such a big volume of concrete and steel embedded five meters in the rock underground could be moved by mechanical means.”
Bolislis who incidentally owns the land on both sides of the western approach to the Canao Bridge was given a certificate of appreciation during the groundbreaking for donating 7,000 square meters for the approach of the new bridge which is a few meters downstream of the existing one. **By Estanislao Albano Jr., ZZW
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