This is in reaction to what happened to floods in Taguig caused by Habagat, where officials blamed and sacked the persons in charge of the pumping station for failure to replenish fuel for continuous draining to Laguna lake.
Even when the pump operates non-stop, still water would inundate Taguig. Why? Consider the design capacity of the pumps. Most pumping stations were designed with a probability period of 10 years. But the rains we are experiencing nowadays are far more than the capacity of the pumping stations. Ondoy has 120 year probability for a day rainfall. Habagat might be 50 year for a day rainfall.
So how can a pump with 3 cu.m. /sec capacity or so drain the floods in Taguig to a desirable level with such magnitude of rainfall.
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