By Nash Maulana via FB Post
A Mall soon to rise in Cotabato City
Facts:
1) The proposed mall's preconstruction preparation site is an area that largely sits on a swampy wetland inundated by the Lawasa Maguindanao (Maguindanao Creek) which drains from an inner rainwater catch basin at the core of the Tantawan or the Pedro Colina Hill.
2) The Creek has a historical Value. It is an essential part of an Amity Treaty between Maguindanao Sultan Qudratullah Untong and Governor-General Narciso Claveria who was in Mindanao in 1845;
3) The creek is part of an entire system of a geological formation evolving in ages which when altered technically may pose peril of flashfloods upon the neighborhood;
4) It is highly recommended that the team of experts involved in that construction project be backed up by river and flood control engineers, so as to more appropriately address that kind of a challenge in the modern-day development endeavors.
Overlooking the area, a volume of water looks stagnant and its mass being pushed by an ongoing earth-filling against the back firewall of an adjacent hospital.
The construction managers should not be treating that as a mere wetland that when earth-filled and elevated would dry up permanently. They should not be treating that as a mere drainage.
In fact, both bank-sides of that kind of a waterway in big cities are rip-rapped all throughout.
In all huge vertical construction projects that we see, concerns on drainage occupy a big part of the site preparation works. We don't see that kind of preparation in this case.
Lawas a Maguindanao is an underground river as it drains water cascading from the hilltop by an elevated catch-basin to the hill’s underground—thence onto Kakar Creek and Matampay River to the southeast, and to Manday River toward northwest (via the Spring). Remember a drowning incident in Thailand three years ago? That inner body of water they call a cave lake where the young adventurists drowned is actually a catch basin--similar to what is inside the Bagua Cave and the Labuana Samal in the Kabalukan Hills in Rajah Buayan, Maguindanao.
These Kutawato Waterways are also mentioned in the treatises of Dr. Najeeb Saleeby, the Syrian physician commissioned by the American Colonial Administration to document on the Moro Law, History and Religion in 1901.
A similar example of such geological phenomenon is the Bakat Creek (Locally, Lawas a Bakat) which also drains water from the Kabalukan hilltop via an elevated cave catch basin called Labuana Samal in Barangay Masulot, Rajah Buayan, Maguindanao.
If they disregard the historical value of the creek, then they should consider the geological facts and how a huge volume of water inundates like marsh that part of Dapdap down areas bounded by the Bormaheco drive towards the southeast.
The NDC Campus may also become unsafe to such a probability in natural phenomena. Who would have thought that Venice (a premier city of a First World Country) would be under water because some structural engineering plans have overlooked geological facts (CTTO). See the second photo. We learn our lessons hard from past floods.
Postscript: A Trivia. PC Hill is Pedro Colina, meaning the Hill of Pedro (nicknamed “rock in the New Testament). It was not known as to who the “Pedro” is being referred to in this landmark name. But Spain being Catholic, some oral historians suspect that it refers to the Disciple Peter as mentioned in a biblical passage, thus: “Now I say to you that you are Peter (which means 'rock'), and upon this rock I will build my church, and all the powers of hell will not conquer it.” (Matthew 16:18). In that sense, Pedro Colina (hill in Spanish) means “Rock Hill.”
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