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The dumpsite was reopened weeks later by then-Quezon City Mayor Ismael Mathay Jr. to avert an epidemic in the city due to uncollected garbage caused by the closure. [6]The landslide prompted the passage of Republic Act No. 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, [7] which mandates the closure of open dumpsites in the Philippines by 2004 and controlled dumpsites by 2006.
When Smokey Mountain closed in 1995, many scavengers migrated to the Payatas dumpsite, where another scavenging community arose. [3] A landslide at the Payatas dump in 2000 killed over two hundred scavengers. [3] As of 2007, approximately 80,000 people lived at the Payatas dump. [3] The Payatas dumpsite itself closed in 2017. [10] [11]
The Payatas dumpsite, also known as the Payatas Controlled Disposal Facility (PCDF), is a former garbage dump in the barangay of the same name in Quezon City, Metro Manila, the Philippines. Originally established in the 1970s, [ 1 ] the former open dumpsite was home to scavengers who migrated to the area after the closure of the Smokey Mountain ...
The population of Payatas is notoriously difficult to estimate. The official 2010 census states the population at almost 120,000 people, but an academic source suggests that the real population is closer to 500,000. [3] In the year 2000, a landslide at the Payatas dump killed over three hundred scavengers. This official figure, though, is also ...
On 21 July 2000 a garbage mound at the Payatas Sanitary Landfill collapsed and slid through the barangay of Payatas outside Quezon City, Philippines, which resulted in the deaths of over 300 people. The tragedy resulted in the Philippine Congress banning all open-air garbage dumps throughout the country. [ 9 ]
Payatas was part of San Mateo, Rizal until it was ceded to Quezon City in 1949. [4]On July 4, 1974, pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 86 [5] as amended Presidential Decree No. 86-A, [6] portion of the community known as ZONE 108 – Commonwealth in Quezon City, which is not a barrio but, having sufficient population and definite jurisdiction, organized itself into a barangay known as ...
Cherry Hills subdivision was home to hundreds of families paying-off low cost, concrete houses.The subdivision was owned and developed by Tirso Santillan, president of Philippine-Japan Solidarity (Philjas) Corporation, which had previously been given a contract by the Housing and Land Use Regulatory Board (HLURB) to develop the area by 1992 but was given an extension of up to March 1999 due to ...
[1] [2] The three were survivors of the Payatas garbage slide tragedy of July 2000. [3] Although the paper boats never reached the palace, the activity, organized by an urban poor group, caught the attention of Arroyo. [1] The story of the boys moved the newly installed president, who presented them during her first State of the Nation Address ...