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Feature TIM eMagazine Vol.1 Issue 23 Image by Ramon FVelasquez, Creative Commons Saving Laguna Lake The Laguna Lake Flood Control and Lake Shore Park Project of a medical doctor cum environmentalist has gained momentum once again after a successful project presentation before the technical committee (TechCom)) presided by LLDA Division Chief Engr Sta. Ana of the Laguna Lake Development Authority. The TechCom, is composed by all the division chiefs and officers-in charge of LLDA. Earlier the Project was endorsed by the Office of the President to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and other attached agencies. A uthored and patented to Dr. Benedicto Dorado, the multi-pronged project aims to rehabilitate Laguna de Bay to its original depthness and water quality, solve the flooding of Metro Manila and the towns and cities of Laguna and Rizal, and at the same time create the longest lakeshore park in the world was “ I am confident that once this Laguna Lake Flood Control and Lakeshore Project is implemented, it will be President Benigno Aquino III’s legacy to the Filipino and to the world as we will be the only country that solved our flooding by creating the longest lakeshore park in the world,’’ Dorado continued. After the presentation, LLDA TechCom presiding officer Engr. Sta Ana said, the Project has addressed almost all the concerns of Laguna Lake in a holistic approach. Project Coordinator Susan Amoroso said that the Project will solve the flooding in the whole metropolis and all the towns and cities of Laguna and Rizal and the nearby provinces of Cavite and Batangas . It will also decongest Metro Manila from traffic and squatter problems, create hundreds of thousands of 45