JONG CADION
Chief of reporters
PAGADIAN CITY--A memorandum of agreement (MOA) was signed, last week, by and among Gov. Aurora Cerilles, town mayors and DENR representatives who are stirring up for the implementation of PRS92.
PRS92 means Philippine Reference System of 1992, a standardized national network of geodetic control points (GCPs) marked by survey monuments, called “mojons,” that has been established using Global Positioning System (GPS) technology.
PRS92 serves as the country's standard coordinate reference system for all survey and mapping activities. It provides the means through which base and thematic datasets can be consistently inter-related geographically.
A “mojon” is a mark on land made of concrete wherein the latitude and longitude coordinates, the GCPs are written for land surveys use.
The DENR spearheads the so-called “Adopt-a-Mojon” program encouraging LGUs, private sectors and local residents to participate in the establishment and care of these “mojons.”
DENR’s RED Ernesto Adobo Jr. observed that landowners spend million of pesos for the development of their area in court proceedings just to resolve boundary conflicts.
Adobo briefed the chief executives present during the MOA signing on the importance of DENR-LGU partnership in the implementation of “Adopt-a-Mojon program.”
Aside from the governor, Mayors Maria Fe Pitoro of Josefina, Flavio Saniel Jr. of Molave, Paulino Fanilag Sr. of Mahayag, Bonifacio Vega Jr. of Tukuran and Abubakar Afdal of Labangan signed the MOA on PRS92 “Adopt-a-Mojon” Project.
The National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA) is in charge of mapping and survey projects like the Production of Topographic Base Maps for Multi-hazard Mapping and Other Purposes, Hydrographic Surveying and Nautical Charting, Delineation of Extended Continental Shelf and PRS92
“People do not realize the importance of a mojon. If this becomes dislocated, it will affect our entire data system. Better destroy the Mojon rather than have it tampered or transferred from the original location because this will only give errors in data gathered by the surveyor,” Adobo explained.
One mojon, he added, costs P12,000 for the government to restore in its proper place.
Cerilles concurs with Adobo’s statements, saying boundary conflicts between Zambosur and Zanorte has affected municipalities like Josefina going to Bayog and Ipil.
Some of these problems, it was learned, have turned into court litigations. Recently, Cerilles added there’s a boundary conflict between Zambosur and Zamboanga Sibugay.
As in the case of Josefina, a portion of their public market, one half of their total land area was claimed by Zamboanga del Norte.
In the “Adopt-a-Mojon” program, adopters will assist DENR in the inventory and recovery of GCP’s and other reference points, submit periodic report on the physical condition of the GCP’s and issue a municipal ordinance safeguarding and maintaining GCP’s and provide appropriate measures to ensure cooperation of the agency’s employees.
As of October, this year, PRS92 stations in the province numbered a total of 260 for the three orders. Another 12, composed of LGUs and the academe have signed a MOA for the said “Adopt-a-Mojon” project.
Chief of reporters
PAGADIAN CITY--A memorandum of agreement (MOA) was signed, last week, by and among Gov. Aurora Cerilles, town mayors and DENR representatives who are stirring up for the implementation of PRS92.
PRS92 means Philippine Reference System of 1992, a standardized national network of geodetic control points (GCPs) marked by survey monuments, called “mojons,” that has been established using Global Positioning System (GPS) technology.
PRS92 serves as the country's standard coordinate reference system for all survey and mapping activities. It provides the means through which base and thematic datasets can be consistently inter-related geographically.
A “mojon” is a mark on land made of concrete wherein the latitude and longitude coordinates, the GCPs are written for land surveys use.
The DENR spearheads the so-called “Adopt-a-Mojon” program encouraging LGUs, private sectors and local residents to participate in the establishment and care of these “mojons.”
DENR’s RED Ernesto Adobo Jr. observed that landowners spend million of pesos for the development of their area in court proceedings just to resolve boundary conflicts.
Adobo briefed the chief executives present during the MOA signing on the importance of DENR-LGU partnership in the implementation of “Adopt-a-Mojon program.”
Aside from the governor, Mayors Maria Fe Pitoro of Josefina, Flavio Saniel Jr. of Molave, Paulino Fanilag Sr. of Mahayag, Bonifacio Vega Jr. of Tukuran and Abubakar Afdal of Labangan signed the MOA on PRS92 “Adopt-a-Mojon” Project.
The National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA) is in charge of mapping and survey projects like the Production of Topographic Base Maps for Multi-hazard Mapping and Other Purposes, Hydrographic Surveying and Nautical Charting, Delineation of Extended Continental Shelf and PRS92
“People do not realize the importance of a mojon. If this becomes dislocated, it will affect our entire data system. Better destroy the Mojon rather than have it tampered or transferred from the original location because this will only give errors in data gathered by the surveyor,” Adobo explained.
One mojon, he added, costs P12,000 for the government to restore in its proper place.
Cerilles concurs with Adobo’s statements, saying boundary conflicts between Zambosur and Zanorte has affected municipalities like Josefina going to Bayog and Ipil.
Some of these problems, it was learned, have turned into court litigations. Recently, Cerilles added there’s a boundary conflict between Zambosur and Zamboanga Sibugay.
As in the case of Josefina, a portion of their public market, one half of their total land area was claimed by Zamboanga del Norte.
In the “Adopt-a-Mojon” program, adopters will assist DENR in the inventory and recovery of GCP’s and other reference points, submit periodic report on the physical condition of the GCP’s and issue a municipal ordinance safeguarding and maintaining GCP’s and provide appropriate measures to ensure cooperation of the agency’s employees.
As of October, this year, PRS92 stations in the province numbered a total of 260 for the three orders. Another 12, composed of LGUs and the academe have signed a MOA for the said “Adopt-a-Mojon” project.