TUBA, Benguet – Thousands of residents in several villagers here are now up in arms against the Baguio City government for its failure to avert the continuous garbage avalanche from the 5.2-hectare Irisan open dumpsite that has been flowing down their communities during the onslaught of Typhoon “Pepeng” which is aggravated by Typhoon Quedan.

For the past several days, the affected villagers disclosed that tons of garbage from the Irisan dumpsite have been flowing down their respective agricultural lands, river systems, and even on their roads which have resulted in their inconvenience.

Instead of helping the residents clean up their roads from the garbage that was washed down their areas of jurisdiction, the residents of Tadiangan and Nangalisan barangays here which are located just below the Irisan dumpsite claimed the city government did not even bother to send their garbage trucks and their streetsweepers to help clean up their roads and their river systems from the tons of garbage that have flowed down their places.

Since the Baguio City government started to use the Irisan dumpsite as a transfer station for the solid waste being hauled to the engineered sanitary landfill in Capas, Tarlac, several tons of garbage have been washed down to the low-lying communities of Tadiangan and Nangalisan which have resulted in inconveniences among the villagers.