Diverting Gugu water seen to address floods

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO–Diverting the water of Gugu River back to the Pasig-Potrero River is seen as the ultimate solution to save the towns of Minalin, Sto. Tomas, Bacolor and this city from floods.

This was gleaned in a multi-sector meeting held on Tuesday to address the flooding that occurred in the province during two consecutive rainy seasons.
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in Region 3 vowed to divert the water flow in the upper stream of Gugu River to prevent flooding in the towns surrounding the San Fernando-Sto. Tomas-Minalin tail dike of the multi-million-peso FVR Megadike.

Antonio Molano, Jr., regional director of DPWH-3, said there is also a need to dredge the Labuan, Camachile – Ventura and Dalan Pari Rivers at the downstream as a medium-term solution to the problem of dike breaching caused by the swelling of water in the Gugu River.

DPWH assured the mayors of the riverside localities that the department is “a strong partner of the local government units in saving the people from any danger through the rehabilitation, restoration of the tail dike, re-channelling of water flows and dredging of the silted portions of the riverbed.”
“Magkakampi po tayo sa laban na ito, hindi po tayo magkalaban,” Molano told the mayors.

Relative to this, Molano said the Mount Pinatubo Emergency (MPE) will concentrate in the dredging of Labuan, Camachile-Ventura and Dalan Pari creeks starting from Pasac in the Sasmuan side and the diversion of the water flow to Pasig-Potrero, upstream of the Gugu transverse dike using a P637-million fund.

Heavy siltation upstream of the Megadike impeded water from flowing through its original route and instead take the Gugu River.
Molano added that the DPWH regional office will work on the heightening, widening and concrete armoring of the existing tail dike plus the restoration of the breached and eroded sections of the same dike using the P139-million fund approved by the department.

The water of Gugu is drained to the Dalan Pari creek, another creek beside the tail dike. The nearness of several creeks to the tail dike is said to cause the scouring and breaching of the anti-lahar structure.

Dalan Pari creek is supposed to flow out to the Sasmuan River through the Labuan River but this is also heavily silted.
Massive flooding hit this city and the towns of Minalin, Sto. Tomas, Macabebe and Masantol due to tremendous amounts of water coming from the Porac River flowing through the Megadike and towards the Gugu River further downstream.

Floodwater was trapped in the tail dike, creating a virtual dam because it cannot exit towards the Sasmuan River via the Labuan River.
As a result, the water overtopped, scoured and breached the tail dike pouring massive volume of water towards the affected towns.

Pampanga Fourth District Rep. Juan Pablo Rimpy Bondoc said the solutions to flooding caused by waters coming from Porac and Gugu creeks are the dredging of the Third River; maintenance of the Dalan Pari Creek to Labuan River; and redirection of the flow of water upstream in Porac into the Pasig-Potrero River and away from Gugu Creek.

City of San Fernando Mayor Edwin Santiago, on the other hand, wants the full rehabilitation of the Gugu dike and construction of concrete armoring in both of its embankments.

Minalin Mayor Edgardo Flores, for his part, wants the DPWH to assure them that the available funds allocated for the said projects are enough to finish the project before next year’s rainy season.

“It’s ideal to request for additional funds as early as now to make sure that everything is in place rather than requesting for it in the future when rains and floodwaters are here again. We are expressing this to let you feel that we are serious to save our town. And we don’t want to finger point or blame anyone in the end,” Flores added.

Mayor Jomar Hizon of Bacolor expressed alarm that the heightening of the tail dike will threaten the safety of the people of Barangay Cabalantian and the rest of the villages in his town.

He said if the tail dike is raised by two meters, it will impound water as high as 10 feet, which will be life threatening to the villages nearby.
“The town of Bacolor and its people had already suffered too much in the past and we do not want it to happen again. I am appealing to DPWH, please revisit and make a full study on this before working on it,” he said.

Hizon quoted Article 637 of the Civil Code saying, “Lower estates are obliged to receive the waters, which naturally and without the intervention of man descend from the higher estates, as well as the stones or earth which they carry with them. The owner of the lower estate cannot construct works which will impede this easement; neither can the owner of the higher estate make works which will increase the burden.”

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