Laguna Expressway Dike project is ‘dangerous’ – Geologist

A project to build a “Laguna Lakeshore Expressway Dike” (LLED) east of the shoreline from Bicutan to Los Baños, also meant to protect Metro Manila from lake floods, is very dangerous, according to a geologist at the Manila Observatory. Geologist Kelvin Rodolfo, writes that if a large earthquake on the West Marikina Valley Fault ruptures the planned expressway-dike, ‘Metro Manila would be flooded catastrophically.’ He also says if the project is constructed and protects Metro Manila from lake-water floods, people living elsewhere along the lake will suffer, simply because the flood water will have to go somewhere. Rodolfo is Senior Research Fellow at Manila Observatory and Professor Emeritus of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In the article below, he notes that the first phase of the Expressway Dike project, from Bicutan to Calamba is already “proceeding with alarming rapidity.” Contracts are to be awarded this April.

Read Kelvin Rodolfo’s article: The dangerous Laguna Lakeshore Expressway Dike