Burnham Park’s Update

Well, well, it’s faster than I thought.  The Burnham Park Lake is now being flooded to be ready to serve the public.  Yah, I went there this afternoon(January 25) to see what’s happening and I was amazed the renovation and cleaning of the mud was all done.  In fact Three days ago, I intentionally passed by very early in the morning, and I saw three backhoes working together to remove the mountain of mud they scraped from the floor of the lake.  Two backhoes were pushing the mud near to the third backhoe who was loading it into a dump truck.

I was thinking that it may take them about a month to finish everything, but barely a week passed and they are now putting water in the lake.  Then I remember, they triple to finish everything and be ready for the coming celebration of the Panagbenga this month of February.

To give you a better view and clearer picture of what is happening I took some images of the lake and around the park to give a wider picture of preparation the city of Baguio is doing to prepare the park for the coming 2013 Panagbenga.

Figure 1.  Non-stop machine working                              

       

This is my kid who went to visit the lake a week ago.













Figure 2.  Water pipes ready to bring water to the lake

These water pipes are connected to the water district outlets and are ready to bring water to the lake.














                                                                                              Figure 3. 


One of the pipes is already working to fill up the lake with water.














Figure 4.  I wonder how many hours needed to completely fill up the lake

                                          Figure 5.  Testing the waters

One of the boatmen with boating business at the lake maneuvers his

 boat 

Figure 6.  The victim

While everyone must be happy about the renovation and uplifting of the lake, these fishes must have seen something was fishy about the project even before it was started - they knew they will never live to benefit from it.










                                                                                       Figure 7.  One side only parking?

Nope.  These jeepneys are caught in a traffic jam.

                                                                                                                                                                          












Figure 8.  Please, fall in line                                                                              

Jeepneys queue due to traffic from end to end.

Figure  9.  Machine and human workers busy working

Men preparing the road to be ready, I believe, for the fast coming Panagbenga. Is this a caused for the traffic jam? I think it contributed but it's not the major reason.










Figure 10.  Another angle view of the lake

Figure  11.  G-d blesses you men for making our park's road better

Figure  12.  Oooopppsss, please, throw your garbage on the proper place

 

Figure  13.  Should I repeat what it says

Figure 14.  Businessmen are busy?

                                                                                                       Figure 15.  Emergency numbers

Figure 16.  People in the park

People love parks, but, I can't guess how many cares.