Posted on September 21, 2026
By: Hilda Austria
STA. BARBARA, Pangasinan — The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) will implement dredging, deploy mobile pumps, and construct water detention basins to ease flooding in Dagupan City.
These actions will be done together with local government units (LGUs).
“The first thing we need to do is to dredge from the upstream of the Sinocalan River, since there are a lot of areas in the upstream of Dagupan City that are submerged in water for a long time,” DPWH Secretary Vince Dizon said in an interview on Thursday afternoon.
He said dredging equipment will be mobilized in the coming days to begin dredging.
“Pangasinan Governor Ramon Guico III wants to help, and we will accept the dredging equipment from the province. We will deploy it along with our other equipment,” he said.
Dizon said that aside from dredging as an immediate solution, they will install four mobile pumps.
