Las Piñas is Drinking Their Own Garbage
I’ve been passing by the coastal road from Las Piñas almost everyday. I’ve been kuligliging there for years now. I just noticed that after you passed by Zapote, you’ll see the landfill there (yep, another “smokey mountain” but without the smoke… yet!). You’ll know when you’re there if you start smelling rotten/foul odors that would make you puke.
If you’re not familiar with and what Coastal road is, it is a reclaimed highway that connects Manila/Pasay to Cavite province and Las Piñas City. Reclaimed — so it means it is used to be part of Manila Bay. And if you go there right now, its west-side is the filthy Manila Bay and the east-side are our poor people squatting the area.
Now back to the landfill, a few meters away from it is the now-closed incinerator facility (it’s closed because of the Clean-Air Act). The landfill sits on top of another reclaimed area and at its side is a river going to the Manila Bay. I don’t know if it is still active as i have not seen any garbage trucks there at the time i am passing by. If the landfill is there for quite a while, it must be decomposing now and its stinking chemicals are now sipping down the land and to the river going to Manila Bay.
As you know, Las Piñas don’t rely on MWSS for its water supply. It gets its water from deep wells. Yes, deep wells… those area underground that contains vast supply of water. Which for all we know gets its source from Manila Bay by means of series of natural filtration by soil minerals underneath… yes, from the Manila Bay that this landfill has been polluting and sipping its deadly chemicals… yes, it passes through them first… must have been mixing their chemicals with Las Piñas’ water supply underground. For all we know…
Las Piñas has been drinking its own garbage!!!
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