No to Obando Landfill

Obando, just like the other towns of Bulacan, has two pronounced seasons: dry and wet season. The wet season is from May to October and the dry season is from November to April. The rainfall of the wet season accounts for about 80% of the annual rainfall, which is due to west monsoons and typhoons. Currently  the major problem of our town is the Obando Landfill. The recently approved Obando Landfill converting 44.4 hectares of Salambao River to a garbage dump. A waste and pollution watchdog has appealed to Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Ramon Paje to intervene in the proposed construction of a waste landfill facility in Obando, Bulacan, citing the proximity of the waste facility to Manila Bay.

Once implemented, the following problems of Obando will never be resolved:

           Heavy flooding during rainy seasons

• River pollution caused by the Tanza, Navotas dumpsite. In 2002, under the leadership of Mayor Nesty Joaquin, the Sangguniang Bayan of Obando, Bulacan passed a controversial resolution allowing all the Phileco (Philippine Ecology Systems Corp.) barges that contains tons of Metro Manila's garbage to pass the river of Obando and dumped it in a river-turned "controlled" dumpsite facility in Tanza, Navotas which is only 1 km away from Obando. Mass actions followed but local officials failed to stop the dumping up to this date. Studies showed that the operation of the dump was polluting the river and had caused several diseases among residents, mostly old folks, women and children.

NO! to Obando Landfill!

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A Year Older

This was an overdue post but I still want to say THANK YOU to two of my best buddies who gave me flowers and our favorite Claudette’s cloud nine cake on my birthday. Just like in the past years I never treated my birthday as a special one, I just want to relax and excuse myself from cooking and doing household chores. It’s really an ordinary day because I was never greeted at home; I have a few FB friends who greeted me on my exact birthday because I did not broadcast the day of my birthday. Though I was somewhat emotional during my birthdays I’m still thankful to our God Almighty for giving me and my family a good health and a good life.

Typhoon Falcon

After three days of continuous rains, our town was greatly affected by destructive flood caused by heavy rains and from the excess water from Ipo dam which said to have released water as early as Friday morning. Pagasa said typhoon Falcon has already left Philippine area of responsibility but terrible weather (heavy rains) still continues. Here are some of the flooded streets in Obando.