CORREGIDOR BARRELS (CROCKETT & HEARN) REMOVED TO MANILA
Jun 19, 2022 21:15:16 GMT 8
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Post by EXO on Jun 19, 2022 21:15:16 GMT 8
DENR SAVES TREE
In furtherance of Pres. Magsaysay's gazetted Executive Order of August 16, 1954 ("DECLARING CORREGIDOR AND BATAAN NATIONAL SHRINES, OPENING THEM TO THE PUBLIC AND MAKING THEM ACCESSIBLE AS TOURIST ATTRACTIONS AND SCENES OF POPULAR PILGRIMAGES, AND CREATING A COMMISSION FOR THEIR DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE") the Department of the Environment and National Resources has saved a tree recently on Corregidor.
Maybe even two!
This was accomplished by removing two barrels from well-maintained places of public display on the tourism-starved island of Corregidor. In happier times, these barrels drew the attention of large numbers of tourists to Corregidor, which is a National Shrine.
One of the barrels stripped from Corregidor for placement near an artificial beach built to feature DENR's triumphs in cleaning up Manila Bay, was featured in the retaking of Corregidor when it featured in a night action for which a U.S. Paratrooper was awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor.
The Department had been dabbling in Tourism lately, so as to publicise its success in cleaning up Manila Bay. It might have been easier and more noteworthy had members of the Department gone swimming in Manila Bay, however the fecal coliform count is still too high for swimming.
In 2019, the fecal coliform bacterial content of Manila Bay hit 1.9 Billion Most Probable Number. In December 2020, DENR reported that in the Baywalk area, fecal coliform was reduced to 2,211,833 most probable number per 100 milliliters (MPN/100ml), compared to 5,666,213 MPN/100ml in 2019. On 18 Feb 2021the DENR announced that water samples taken on Feb. 8 from 21 stations surrounding the Manila Bay have shown significantly lower fecal coliform from the annual average of 7.16 million most probable number per 100 milliliters (mpn/100ml) in 2020 to only 4.87 million mpn/100ml at present.
How it is that a beach of white dolomite sand shipped in from a quarry near Cebu signifies a triumphal campaign against the negligence of heads of barangays and mayors supposedly responsible for the implementation of environmental laws, remains to be seen. That's a good question, and I have no answer to it. A few convictions for negligence might have been better and cheaper. Similarly, the opening of several sewage treatment plants might have sent the message that public monies are better spent on waste water treatment plants than in building tourist fads.
Heck, I don't even know if Metro Manila has any overall plan on how to deal with the tremendous waste they generate daily. If they haven't got one, they sure are leaving it a little late. Having worked in the waste industry for a decade or so, I am not without ideas.
Fecal coliform bacterial counts do not reflect the significant weight of plastic waste and other non-putrescible garbage which floats across Manila Bay and is washed up on Corregidor's shores every day.