Lawyer Jaime Estrabillo, one of the affected property owners in the area, wrote Mayor Eduardo Guerrero seeking assistance for the immediate reinforcement of the endangered portions of the 400-meter barangay road.
In another letter to the mayor, Rufino Cervantes noted that “during the recent typhoons which brought heavy rains, the barangay road leading to our properties was partly eaten up by the wayward flow of a local creek.”
“We are worried that if this problem is not attended to, more erosion will occur and destroy altogether the road and thus deprive us of our only access to our properties,” he said.
He noted that “while the road is still passable, we feed that the road which is about six meters high from the creek, has become so dangerous that our lives are at stake whenever we negotiate it.”
The municipal government was reported to have sent to the site some concrete pipes reportedly to be laid along the side of the barangay road and filled up with solid so as to serve as fortification. So far, however, the pipes have not been installed as planned.
