Baguio City on alert due to erosion incidents – BusinessWorld Online
BAGUIO CITY — Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong urged barangay local governments here to be on alert for unsanctioned land development or excavations.
This comes as 19 incidents of soil erosion were recorded during the past three days, four of which were huge landslides.
Though these erosion incidents were not life-threatening, Mr. Magalong said, they monitored partially damaged houses, uprooted trees, and a sinkhole in one of the city’s 128 barangays.
On Sunday, a huge boulder rolled down from the mountaintop along Barangay Camp 7, pinning down a dog, dog cage and a car.
As a result of the monitored soil erosion around the city, four families were evacuated to safer ground.
Mayor Magalong said it is fortunate that there were no human fatalities but pinned the blame on unsanctioned land developments around the city that prompted these accidents.
Mr. Magalong cited an unsanctioned land development by an owner in a barangay here where two houses were compromised when continuous rains soaked the soil on the slope.
For the past three days, the city has received a huge 300mm volume of rainwater that added to the rainwater volume that doused Baguio City even a month before “Crising.” — Artemio A. Dumlao