This aerial picture was taken sometime in November, 2007, on a sunny day and for weeks it has not rained in Cagayan de Oro City and Talakag, Bukidnon area. It has been observed by those near the river banks that this situation has been that muddy for many years now. The river is virtually dead and has affected the nearby shores of Barangay Bulua and Bayabas. No swimming or crawling creature can possibly survive in this muck of a river. Contrast that to the picture below and surely one shudders at the thought that this could happen to this site also..That area to the west is where a bible camp is located which stands to be ruined or ruined already. The last time, I dived there with Engr. Derecho, I already noticed a 4-inch deep mud in the vicinity in front of the bible camp and also in the east portion of the river, along the Bulua shore up to the canal drainage of NHA Kauswagan, where once in the late 70s, as a marine biology student we did our plankton survey. Fresh catch of fishes were abundant and the air was as still smog-free then..
It seems that the culprit for this is the activity upstream of Iponan River where gold mining is on-going..Maybe, the local government can do something about this?
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