Comments on: of typhoons and dams 2

By: Mike H

Mike H — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:38:41 +0000

Erap-para-sa-mahirap signed papers to accelerate the Laiban dam.
http://pcij.org/resources/laiban-02-chronology.pdf

By: girbaudz

girbaudz — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 04:15:26 +0000

wow! terrific insight ma’am! what a beautiful post. yes, i agree. i couldn’t have said as much in my own post. http://girbaudz.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/typhoon-ondoy/.

however, about elmot’s comment on Laiban Dam, the proponent was Sen. Jovito Salonga either as the PCGG chair or during his second wind at Senate. Sen. Salonga was asking for 100-Billion pesos for the project. Small money if converted to dollars these-a-days. I wonder what the Irrevocable Bank Payment Orders stated in those days? Who were to get the commissions? Hmmm… it might seem, if elmot is right, the names in the IBPOs have changed, no? Never has the extent of corruption really changed…

By: elmot

elmot — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:02:41 +0000

eh, hihirit pa nga ng Laiban Dam eh, last hooray ikaw nga ehehhe!

By: angela

angela — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:21:28 +0000

yes, they keep saying that water released from dams didn’t cause the floods in marikina. so, but, where did all that water go kung overflowing na rin ang bulacan waterways from ondoy’s rains? overland, di ba, to seek its own level. and kung overflowing na rin ang marikina river, and floodways, drains, creeks, esteros were all clogged, then dumagdag lang all that water to the flood kaya tumaas nang ganoon and kung saan saan nakarating. it’s not as if bulacan is walled in and water from the angat and magat dam just flowed down into bulacan and was contained therein.

really, i’d love to be proven wrong about this. but it seems to me that officials are just on denial / damage-control mode.

By: Mike H

Mike H — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:41:47 +0000

blackshama and one of the UP-diliman scientists should be able to determine (using water-flow mathematics) how much water flow would be needed to make the Marikina river rise by an additional 10 meters.

Napocor officials claim that their water-release did not cause any flooding. The Provident Village flooding was Ondoy.

http://ph.politicalarena.com/presidential-elections/news/angat-dam-water-didn-t-cause-flashfloods

Magat Dam and Angat Dam released at different times, they also say.

By: angela

angela — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:01:40 +0000

hey mike h ;) but rivers were swollen na and overflowing. so the streets turned into rivers too.

By: Mike H

Mike H — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:32:14 +0000

The Manila Times article’s claim that Quezon City was flooded by the waters released from the dams has no merit. Just look at the maps and it will be evident that the released water flowed into the rivers, not up onto Katipunan avenue.

By: manuelbuencamino

manuelbuencamino — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:18:50 +0000

At bajo sita bumaba sa pwesto meron pang isang dam na gagawin, huling hirit ika nga