A team from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Mines and Geosciences Bureau-Western Visayas (DENR-MGB Region 6) is conducting a vulnerability and risk assessment (VRA) here as part of the process to update the city’s geohazard map.
Ram Vera, chief of City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO) Research and Planning Section, said on Wednesday there is a need to update the city’s susceptibility status since its existing geohazard map is already 11 years old.
“Our last susceptibility map was in 2013 yet. It’s now 2024, many developments have already taken place in the city,” Vera said in a telephone interview.
On Wednesday, the assessment started in the first 10 barangays and the next 11 villages will be covered on Thursday.
Vera said the rest of the city’s 61 barangays will be assessed within two months.
Geologist II ER Ramos leads the DENR-MGB team in conducting the VRA, which involves a more expansive look at risk exposures of areas, to update Bacolod’s susceptibility map on a scale of 1:10,000, indicating the level of susceptibility of barangays and sitios to landslides and flooding.
According to the DENR-MGB, the VRA is an assessment of the…
