MMDA’s Romando Artes is quoted as having described the dolomite beach in Roxas Boulevard as a cause for the slow release of floodwaters from Malate, and rightly so. I wonder why his predecessors inb the previous administration never bothered to caution DENR’s Roy Cimatu from his monumental folly. Ostensibly in compliance with a Supreme Court decision during GMA’s time mandating the restoration of our beautiful bay to its pristine condition, DENR’s Cimatu under the previous administration poured crushed dolomite from the mountains of Cebu into the bay’s periphery, about one kilometer long and twenty meters wide.

Banayo, L. (2025, July 21). Recovering Manila Bay [Opinion]. Manila Standard, p. A5.