SMC extracts 3 million metric tons of silt, solid waste in several Bulacan river systems
Mon Lazaro May 6, 2024 at 03:49 PM
CITY OF MALOLOS — San Miguel Corporation (SMC) has announced that it has already extracted three million metric tons of silt and solid waste from over 50 kilometers (km) of river system in Bulacan.
The river clean-up projects of SMC has also extracted another three million tons of silts and solid wastes from various river systems in and around Metro Manila for a total of six million metric tons.
The 50 kilometers river clean-up projects of SMC in Bulacan include those that slice through the cities and towns of Meycauayan, Obando, Bulakan, Bocaue, Marilao, Balagtas and Guiguinto.
The company enumerated that the Bulacan rivers that were already cleared of silt and waste include the Taliptip-Maycapiz-Bambang rivers, with a length of 10 km; Meycauayan River from Manila Bay up to NLEX, 12 kms.; Mailad to Bocaue/Sta. Maria River, 8.5 kms.; Guiguinto River up to NLEX, 9.6 kms.; Marilao River, also upstream to NLEX, 4.8 kms; and, Balagtas River, 2.5 kms.
Clean-up is ongoing in Pamarawan river in Malolos, which is also the site of SMC’s 40-hectare biodiversity area for migratory shorebirds, where the initiative has so far covered 1.8 kms of the total 8.9 kms, SMC added.
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