What caused the flood in Cainta, Pasig and Ortigas Ave Extension?

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          The channel could be only 5 meters wide, the rest of the river about 10 meters are occupied by settlers

I tried to find out whether the hypothesis that the creeks and rivers were responsible for the Ortigas Ave extension.  Surely, there will be people whose houses will be damaged, there will be electrocution, aids and rescue operations.   But the root causes will not be investigated nor removed.  They are there, we ignore, we deny that they exist, and that some of our country men due to their selfish acts caused this:

                 They will be always the victim; why cant we move them?  Why are they untouchables?  Cant the govt relocate them to a much safer place?

                  Other river bank settlers at the Brookside (Ortigas area)

What is accretion and how does it cause more flooding

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We see lakes and decreasing in area, as more land is created from the soil washed from the upland.  Riverbanks too become wider and upland owners gain ownership (they can have the added land titled.  In the process, the waterway gets narrower, and common sense dictates that less volume of water can pass through hence this is flooding.

In my town, In Cainta, Pasig, in Marikina, I know for a fact, that accretions in rivers has been a cause of flooding.   Laguna lakes area has likewise been decreased because of accretion and reclamation projects.  The volume of the lake is considereably reduced.

Yesterday was Ondoy's 5th anniversary

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Repost from Summit Express



One week before the Ondoy anniversary, MM was again flooded:  Marikina, Pasig, and elsewhere in the Philippines by the onslaught of typhoon Mario

5 years after, and several hearings and debates after what has happened?

1.  Have the squatters been removed from the river banks?

2.  Have the rivers, creeks and esteros deepened and widened?

Government of laws rather than of men

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Repost from Philstar

Aquino defends PNP chief - from Rappler

I used to be a Jaycee and this is an important creed.  However, after hearing the interview with the head of the country  on head of PNP, and saying that he is a friend, and that he is good despite the allegations of wrongdoing, and documented at that, this post is rather appalled with the support being thrown by the head of state to another head of an organization.....

It is thus a govt of friends rather than of laws.  Of dynasties, and friends and NGOs.....

OF men rather than of laws

What are the causes of the flooding in MM? Any solutions?

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Rizal Philippines   | September 23, 2014

The area near the SM Marikina is inundated because the floodway which is just 30 meters wide and 4 meters deep vis (100 meters and 10 meters) is choked and thus Pasig river, which is it was designed to empty into Laguna Lake, is flooded





Floods at Ortigas  Avenue ( can we relate this to the abuse of Pasig River and Manggahan floodway?)


What caused the flooding?  A flurry of interviews and TV shows and articles are coming out to analyze again the cause of the flood:

Again let us enumerate:

1.  Force majeure  - the 269 mm of rainfall for the 24 hour period is the equivalent of 1/2 month of rainfall.;

2.  Global warming -  the warm Pacific Ocean and atmosphere loads typhoons with more energy and moisture that fall as rain.  This is a very convenient excuse



3.  Clogged drainage  -  plastics, sand, silt, trash clog the drainage


Garbage and encroachment on esteros;  we cant fight nor convince developers to demolish their encroachment

4. Flood control projects, pumps that do not work  (Espana has had several flood control projects and yet it floods at when the dogs piss.)


Squatters must go?   Or they and us suffer floods endlessly?


Squatters at floodway banks (west bank) We have no will to resist their votes?






Would the flooding be the same if the banks of floodway were cleared of squatters?

From GMA news - encroachment of Manggahan floodway blamed for Pasig river swelling.  It has become narrower and shallower  - thanks to.....

5.   Settlers on esteros and river banks (accretion).  Pasig river then looked very wide.  Now it seems that it is only 15 meters wide.   Manggahan floodway is heavily silted.  Squatters dump their shit and garbage at Manggahan floodway.


From here we can judge that the Manggahan floodway overflow, flooded Ortigas Ave after the Manggahan bridge.  Manggahan floodway should be dredged and declogged.

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