{"id":28045,"date":"2014-10-07T02:26:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T18:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=28045"},"modified":"2014-10-07T02:26:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T18:26:15","slug":"mmda-to-de-clog-creek-near-katipunan-to-prevent-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/07\/mmda-to-de-clog-creek-near-katipunan-to-prevent-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"MMDA to de-clog creek near Katipunan to prevent floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14268\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14268\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/MMDA-Francis-Tolentino-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14268\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/MMDA-Francis-Tolentino-2.jpg\" alt=\"MMDA Chairman Atty. Francis Tolentino. Photo courtesy of MMDA's official Facebook page.\" width=\"960\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/MMDA-Francis-Tolentino-2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/MMDA-Francis-Tolentino-2-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MMDA Chairman Atty. Francis Tolentino. Photo courtesy of MMDA&#8217;s official Facebook page.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; To prevent flooding along Katipunan Avenue in Quezon City, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) announced on Monday plans to de-clog the creek near the area.<\/p>\n<p>Emma Quiambao, MMDA flood control chief, said that the stretch of Katipunan Avenue in Quezon City is included now in the agency&#8217;s list of flood-prone areas in the metropolis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSa Katipunan po, binabaha na rin po \u2018yun, at \u2018yan po ay papuntang (Barangay) Duyan-Duyan, papuntang Lagarian at bagsak po niyan ay sa San Juan River (Katipunan also gets flooded going to Barangay Duyan-Duyan to Lagarian then to San Juan River),\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n<p>She said the agency was able to identify 20 flood-prone areas including Espa\u00f1a Boulevard, P. Burgos-Manila City Hall, R. Papa-Rizal Avenue, and Osme\u00f1a Highway in Manila; Don Bosco, South Superhighway, EDSA Megamall, Pasong Tamo Magallanes tunnel and Buendia in Makati City; C5 Bagong Ilog in Pasig City; West Service Road near Merville in Para\u00f1aque City; East Service Road near Sales St. in Muntinlupa City; North Avenue-Trinoma, NLEX Balintawak, Biak na Bato, EDSA Santolan, and Katipunan Avenue in Quezon City; Macapagal Avenue in Pasay City; and C5 BCDA in Taguig City.<\/p>\n<p>Quiambao said they are planning to de-clog the creeks near Katipunan in the coming days to prevent flooding around the area.<\/p>\n<p>She said most inlets and drainage systems in Metro Manila get clogged by dried leaves, garbage, and silt.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the MMDA deployed 350 personnel after evening rains flooded some parts of Metro Manila that stranded motorists and passengers.<\/p>\n<p>The MMDA has also prepositioned mobile pumps and vacuum trucks along Espa\u00f1a Boulevard, Santolan, Katipunan, and EDSA Megamall in preparation for flooding.<\/p>\n<p>MMDA\u2019s flood control center prepositioned 12 mobile pumps and three dewatering trucks in critical areas and also placed around six military trucks on standby to ferry stranded passengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; To prevent flooding along Katipunan Avenue in Quezon City, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) announced on Monday &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":14268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}