Inaalis na bara ng Manggahan floodway finally

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Dapat lang.  Kasi unang babahain ay Malacanang.  Ang floodway ay dinidivert ang floodwaters ng Marikina river, at iniimbak muna sa Laguna Lake bago unti until itong inalalabas sa Manila bay.   Kung di ito ma iidivert, dirediretso ito sa Pasig River, at sa Malacanang...Bukod sa maleta, baha ng tubig ang papasok dito.

Kaya kailangan itong alisan ng bara...  (Ginagawa na yata?)

Hurry up guys the typhoons, big ones are coming and are hitting us with incessant deluge.   

Incessant rain from Habagat causes flooding in QC, Marikina, EDSA, Pampanga and Pangasinan

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Rizal Philippines
August 14, 2016

TV news last night were filled of videos of areas being hit by floods:   QC Del Monte River Banks, Marikina River banks, Calasiao and Sta Barbara in Pangasinan,  San Fernando Pampanga, and areas along Tullahan river (due to La Mesa Dam water nearing critical level  -  this would flood Valenzuela, Navotas, Malabon, and Caloocan City)  Some comments are worth making:

The water level at Marikina river has reached and will breach the critical level

1.  While the flooding is from nature, the other part comes from:    inadequate flood control (despite billions having spent for them)

2.  Those who live near the river banks must be permanently evacuated.  They live in river banks and the danger will always be there when the rivers swell  (true for Marikina and del Monte and elsewhere)

3.  The rivers must be dredged and accretion titles revoked.  This post noted that in Pasig and Marikina, the LGU developed the accredtion (the silt that were deposited on the river banks) thus narrowing the rivers and lessening the carrying capacity of the Pasig River

Man.s greed is to be blamed for this flooding.  This is true for flooding in Cainta and  Marikina and Pasig.   We all know the cause and yet we do not act.  In Pasig near the Soldiers village, scavengers occupied the area near the creek.  We posted that picture several years ago.  No one has dared take action on this.  You cant see the bridge structure anymore

Is claiming of accretion a common practice at Marikina river? (passing through Pasig City)

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Rizal Philippines    |  September 30, 2014

                What is this backhoe doing?  Removing the accretion or fixing this?.  The river at this portion before the Rosario bridge has become narrower.

Reclaiming  the accretion at Marikina River?
From what I remember, Pasig river was a wide and deep and wide river.  It claimed a lot of lives from drowning. It could be at least 100 meters wide and more than 10 meters deep.  However this post recent photo essay suggests that it could be 50 or even 30 meters wide, and heavily silted.  No wonder, there is rapid flooding of its banks.  what happened to the rest of the river?