{"id":34386,"date":"2014-12-07T19:50:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T11:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=34386"},"modified":"2014-12-07T21:28:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T13:28:51","slug":"marinduque-official-fears-mine-dams-collapse-from-rubys-heavy-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/07\/marinduque-official-fears-mine-dams-collapse-from-rubys-heavy-rains\/","title":{"rendered":"Marinduque official fears mine dams collapse from Ruby\u2019s heavy rains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/hagupit-ruby1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34345\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/hagupit-ruby1.jpg\" alt=\"hagupit ruby\" width=\"960\" height=\"737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/hagupit-ruby1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/hagupit-ruby1-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/hagupit-ruby1-900x690.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LUCENA CITY, Philippines\u2013 An official of Marinduque\u2019s provincial disaster committee has voiced his apprehensions of a possible collapse of abandoned mine dams of now inactive Marcopper Mining Corporation should the area be inundated by the intense rainfall expected from Typhoon Ruby (Hagupit.)<\/p>\n<p>Eleuterio Raza, provincial disaster risk reduction management council officer-in-charge, told reporters on Sunday morning that he and his team are \u201cclosely monitoring the condition of Tapian pit, Makulapnit and Maguila-guila dams,\u201d for fears that heavy rains from Ruby could cause the abandoned dams to cave in, as these could no longer hold more water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe weather forecast predicts strong rains along Ruby\u2019s path. Marinduque will be surely hit,\u201d Raza said.<\/p>\n<p>Raza said that should a dam break, there would be catastrophic flooding in the towns of Mogpog and Boac.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe already have evacuated 1,500 residents in low lying areas particularly along riverbanks and coastlines since Saturday. Most of them have voluntarily evacuated,\u201d the official noted.<\/p>\n<p>He added that several rescue teams from the Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council were also poised to respond to emergencies that may arise in the event that a dam should collapse.<\/p>\n<p>The mines were abandoned when Marcopper ceased operations in 1996, after an environmentally disastrous accident; in which the plug of the Tapian pit gave way and released roughly 200 million tons of toxic materials into the Boac river.<\/p>\n<p>The mines have since been in active and have been left un-rehabilitated for decades now.<\/p>\n<p>In 1996, shortly after the spill, Makulapnit and Maguila-guila were both declared by the United States Geological Services to be in \u201cimminent danger of collapsing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUCENA CITY, Philippines\u2013 An official of Marinduque\u2019s provincial disaster committee has voiced his apprehensions of a possible collapse of abandoned &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":34345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34386","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=34386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}