How shallow is this river?

Can you believe how shallow this is? He's  almost in the middle of the river but it's   barely 20 inches deep! it's incredible. Good  morning everyone, we're back in Marikina City,   where they're doing dredging of the river,  widening also, to try and reduce flooding   in the future. Now this long arm backhoe  is owned and operated by Marikina City   but in the background there you'll see some  MMDA equipment and the same thing over there,   you'll see some MMDA equipment on some kind of  floater. And they've been doing this every day.   There's also DPWH further along the river.  A lot of people aren't hearing about this,   they're not seeing it in the news, so we're  doing our best to try and bring this to you   and show you that something really is being  done. Now i'm thinking this might be better   if they had some kind of floating platform  where they can place the dirt. But either way,   they just make piles like this and then they pull  it out using this one. So it's quite easy. But of   course this is not MMDAs primary duty,, dredging  rivers. This is really more under the DPWH   and the DENR. But since MMDA have some equipment,  they have some personnel, they're trying to help   out however they can. And we're now back in the  other area that's been managed primarily by DPWH   and you'll see they've been very very busy,  they've pulled a lot of soil out of the river. So this truck's full they'll be moving it  out and hopefully switching another one   like i said they do have a lot more  equipment than mmda because this kind of   job really falls under their responsibility under  their jurisdiction there's a guy going around the   truck just to make sure there's no soil near  the edges because if soil lands on the road   it becomes very slippery it's so so dangerous for  motorcycles even cars we've seen accidents before   and you may remember in a previous video i  showed how they were planting this giant bamboo   and there was this trunk over here that was naked  but look at it now it's got these offshoots which   are huge unbelievable it grew so fast so yeah  this is one of the efforts to reinforce the   easements or the river banks over here you'll see  one of the markings that was put out by the dnr   and that shows where the river bank should  be and that's what the dbwh had been digging   up to so they left marcus all along the river  and then they're trying to match that so it's   not just dredging in the middle but it's also  widening back to its original what it should be   the whip it looks like they're flattening this  area out perhaps this will be their access way for   the amphibious excavators that go in the middle of  the river and then do the dredging that's a little   bit sad to see so many plastic bottles and other  waste in the water actually this is something i   wanted to tackle try to do a clean up but now this  isn't a good time because there's so much digging   going on you see they've really done a lot of work  here maybe in the future once they finish this   now unfortunately i don't have a drone but i'm  sure you can see if you follow all my videos   about this area they've really done a lot of work  and i hope they can continue at this pace because   then the job will be finished much faster although  there will never be an end to this because there   should always be ongoing efforts you have to  dredge it regularly you have to make sure no one   builds property where they're not meant  to you know it really has to be an ongoing   effort after these operations this equipment  from the dpwh just makes the job look so easy   the machine is not breaking a sweat at all look  at the way you can just pick off so much dirt   straight out of the water straight out  of the riverbank and dumps it amazing you

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Length: 4min 28sec (268 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 07 2021