ANGELES CITY – Owners of tourism establisments here and a school are cramming to save what’s left of their properties already damaged and still threatened by erosion at the Balibago creek.
In a meeting at the office of Balibago Barangay Captain Rodelio “Tony” Mamac on Wednesday night, representatives and owners of at least six establishments, including the Systems Plus College (SPC), have yet to decide on the “engineering plan” to save a total combined asset of about P500 million.
The other affected firms are Koala Hotel, Marble Inn, Balibago Village Motel, Swagman Hotel and Garden Dine Restaurant, the latest establishment affected by erosion reportedly triggered by huge volume of water coming from the Clark Freeport and SM Clark in Balibago.
The SM managment, in a statement released by its public relations department, assured its cooperation to whatever the proposed project will be to solve the problem at the creek.
Mamac, for his part, stressed to the businessmen that “time and not just nature is against them and an immediate solution is needed.”
Engineers of SPC and Swagman and Engr. Willy Manalili of the Provincial Engineering Office (PEO) proposed different plans to save properties at Diamond Subdivision where most of the affected establishments are located.
Engr. Ric Balatbat of Swagman urged the use of container vans to armor the eroding portion of the creek near their respective establishment. He added that “such plan cost about P625,000 per area.”
Engr. Chito Mungcal of the SPC said they should “divert or spread the flow of water as the immediate solution.” He added that other plans requiring construction work may be useless because “time is the great thing to consider.”
“Who knows in the next three days or even tommorow we will have no more property to save as rains are prevelant nowadays,” said Mungcal. He disclosed that the Jao family who owns SPC wants to save their four-storey building amounting to about P30 million. At least two buildings and some one hectare of land of the SPC had been destroyed since the erosion started on June 18.
Manalili, an engineering consulant who was invited by Mungcal, said “let the water flow and not fight it.” He urged to cement the areas where the water passes.
Manalili cited the case in Clark where there is no flood because water passes freely “on clean and cemented water ways.”
But Mamac and the owners agreed that funding is the problem for the flood control project.
Mamac said he would ask DPWH Sec. Hermogenes Edbane jr. to fund “whatever project is viable to save Balibago.”
In a meeting at the office of Balibago Barangay Captain Rodelio “Tony” Mamac on Wednesday night, representatives and owners of at least six establishments, including the Systems Plus College (SPC), have yet to decide on the “engineering plan” to save a total combined asset of about P500 million.
The other affected firms are Koala Hotel, Marble Inn, Balibago Village Motel, Swagman Hotel and Garden Dine Restaurant, the latest establishment affected by erosion reportedly triggered by huge volume of water coming from the Clark Freeport and SM Clark in Balibago.
The SM managment, in a statement released by its public relations department, assured its cooperation to whatever the proposed project will be to solve the problem at the creek.
Mamac, for his part, stressed to the businessmen that “time and not just nature is against them and an immediate solution is needed.”
Engineers of SPC and Swagman and Engr. Willy Manalili of the Provincial Engineering Office (PEO) proposed different plans to save properties at Diamond Subdivision where most of the affected establishments are located.
Engr. Ric Balatbat of Swagman urged the use of container vans to armor the eroding portion of the creek near their respective establishment. He added that “such plan cost about P625,000 per area.”
Engr. Chito Mungcal of the SPC said they should “divert or spread the flow of water as the immediate solution.” He added that other plans requiring construction work may be useless because “time is the great thing to consider.”
“Who knows in the next three days or even tommorow we will have no more property to save as rains are prevelant nowadays,” said Mungcal. He disclosed that the Jao family who owns SPC wants to save their four-storey building amounting to about P30 million. At least two buildings and some one hectare of land of the SPC had been destroyed since the erosion started on June 18.
Manalili, an engineering consulant who was invited by Mungcal, said “let the water flow and not fight it.” He urged to cement the areas where the water passes.
Manalili cited the case in Clark where there is no flood because water passes freely “on clean and cemented water ways.”
But Mamac and the owners agreed that funding is the problem for the flood control project.
Mamac said he would ask DPWH Sec. Hermogenes Edbane jr. to fund “whatever project is viable to save Balibago.”
