List of rivers and estuaries in Metro Manila

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Metro Manila, Philippines, is located in the hydraulically complex Pasig RiverLaguna de BayManila Bay watershed, which includes more than thirty tributaries within the urban area. The following list is sorted by name, with a brief description of each.
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Pasig River seen from Jones Bridge.

An elevated LRT above the Marikina River.

Manggahan Floodway, an artificial channel draining into the Laguna de Bay.

Name

Description

Alabang River

Drains water from Alabang (up to Ayala Alabang Village and Festival Supermall). Dumps water

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Description into Laguna de Bay via Pasong Diablo River.

Batasan River

Drains water from Malabon and Navotas. Dumps water to Tanza River which leads to Manila Bay via Tangos River.

Bayanan Creek

Drains water from Muntinlupa. Dumps water into Laguna de Bay.

Canal de la Reina

Drains water from Manila as far as Tayuman Street, Claro M. Recto Avenue, and Binondo. Ends in Binondo and there is a floodgate orpumping station in that end at Muelle de Binondo. Dumps water into Pasig River at its southern tip. Dumps water into Manila Bay via Estero de Vitas in its northern tip.

Dampalit River

Drains water from Malabon and Navotas and dumps it to Tangos River.

Estero de Aviles

Estero de Binondo

Estero de Maypad

Drains water from Manila, Navotas and Caloocan. Dumps water to Navotas River.

Estero de Paco Drains Paco and Pandacan. Leads to Pasig River.

Estero de Pandacan

Drains Pandacan and Paco. Dumps water into Pasig River.

Estero de Sampaloc

Estero de San

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Description

Estero de Sunog Apog

Drains water from Manila. Dumps water to Manila Bay via Estero de Vitas.

Estero de UliUli

Estero de Tripa de Gallina

Drains water from Manila (Paco and San Andres), Makati as far as Forbes Park and Fort Bonifacio and then through Buendia Ave in Makati and Pasay (including Bangkal and Don Bosco Makati) and then in Paraaque. Dumps water into Manila Bay via the Paraaque River at an intersection near western side of the NAIA runway.

Estero de Quiapo

Estero de Valencia

Estero de Vitas

Drains water from Manila (as far as Tayuman). Dumps water directly to Manila Bay.

Laguna River

Major channel. Drains water from Makati, Pateros and Taguig. Dumps water into Laguna de Bay.

Las Pias River

Major channel. Drains water from Las Pias and dumps it directly to Manila Bay.

Magdaong River

Drains water from Muntinlupa. Dumps water into Laguna de Bay.

Marikina River

Major channel. Drains water from Marikina, Cainta, Rodriguez, San Mateo and Antipolo in Rizal. as well as some parts of Quezon City. It leads to Pasig River.

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Description

Major channel. Drains water from Marilao, Meycauayan and as far as the northwestern side of the La Mesa Dam area. Two other rivers, the Meycuayan River and Polo River that drains Malabon Marilao River and Valenzuela dump their water here. Another great rivers, the Santa Maria River and Balagtas River meet up with the Marilao River in the Obando area before reaching Manila Bay.

Maytunas Creek

Drains Mandaluyong and San Juan. Dumps water into San Juan River.

Meycauayan River

Major channel. Drains water from Valenzuela and Meycauayan in Bulacan. Dumps water into Manila Bay via Marilao River.

Muzon River

Drains water from Malabon and Bulacan. Dumps water to Manila Bay via the entrance of Marilao River in Bulacan.

Navotas River

Major channel. Drains water from Navotas, Caloocan and Manila. Intersects with Tullahan River at the middle. Dumps water directly to Manila Bay (southern end) and to Tangos River (northern end).

Paraaque River

Major channel. Drains Paraaque, Pasay and Manila areas. Dumps water directly into Manila Bay.

Pasig River

Major channel. Drains water from Laguna de Bay and Marikina River, and also Quezon City, Makati, Mandaluyong, Manila and San Juan (including San Juan River). Dumps water directly to Manila Bay.

Pasong Diablo Drains water from Alabang, Muntinlupa. Dumps water into Laguna de Bay. River

Pateros River

Major channel. Drains water from Pateros and Makati area (Guadalupe and Fort Bonifacio). Dumps most of its water into Laguna de Bay via Laguna River at its southeastern tip. Dumps some of its water into Pasig River in Guadalupe.

Poblacion River

Drains water from Muntinlupa (Poblacion). Dumps water into Laguna de Bay.

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Description

Polo River

Drains water from Malabon, Valenzuela and Bulacan. Dumps water directly to Manila Bay.

San Juan River

Major channel. Drains water from Quezon City (including Tandang Sora and as far as Sauyo and Fairview), San Juan and Manila. Dumps water into Pasig River.

Sucat River

Major channel. Drains water from Paraaque and Muntinlupa. Dumps water into Laguna de Bay.

Taguig River

Tangos River

Drains water from Navotas. Dumps water directly to Manila Bay.

Tanza River

Drains water from Navotas. Connects with Dampalit River. Dumps water to Tangos River.

Tullahan River

Major channel. Drains water from La Mesa Dam, as well as the northern part of Quezon City, Valenzuela, Novaliches, Malabon and Navotas. Mouth is at Navotas.

Tunasan River Drains water from Muntinlupa. Dumps water into Laguna de Bay.

Zapote River

Major channel. Drains water from Las Pias and parts of Bacoor, Cavite. Dumps water into Manila Bay directly.

WATER TREATMENT PLANTS

West Zone water supply is processed at the La Mesa Treatment Plants 1 and 2 in Novaliches, Quezon City. La Mesa Treatment Plant 1 is a conventional-type plant with a maximum design capacity of 1500 MLD designed by American company Camp, Dresser and Mckee. Fully operational since March 31, 1983, the plant initially started operations in March 1982 for only 300 MLD.

The La Mesa Treatment Plant 2 was commissioned in 1995. It is a plant of the pulsator-type that has a design capacity of 900 MLD with an allowable overload of 990 MLD. It was designed by Degrmont, a French company recognized as a world specialist in water treatment plants. Both treatment plants are ISO 9001:2000-certified, establishing that Maynilads water treatment process meets global standards for Quality Management. Maynilad's Putatan treatment plant is the first water treatment facility that taps into Laguna Lake, the largest lake in the country and the third largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia, as an alternative water source to Angat Dam. It is the largest membrane-based water treatment plant in the Philippines, and is also the first of its kind in the country to use large-scale microfiltration and reverse osmosis. The state-of-the-art treatment plant uses a multi-stage process of Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF), Microfiltration, Reverse Osmosis and Chlorination to ensure that the water from Laguna Lake passes the Department of Health (DOH)-issued Philippine National Standards for Drinking Water (PNSDW).

SEWAGE AND SEPTAGE TREATMENT PLANTS

Central Manila Sewerage System. Maynilad operates the Central Manila Sewerage System, which serves 70% of the city of Manila. The system covers part of Tondo, Sampaloc, Pandacan, Binondo, Sta. Cruz, Quiapo, San Miguel, Intramuros, Ermita, Malate, Paco, and Port Area. The system consists of sewer lines, lift stations, pumping plant, bar screens, grit removal, aeration plants and other appurtenances. These collect, convey, treat and dispose wastewater discharges from Maynilad customers to a final disposal site which is 3.9 kilometers off the seashore of Manila Bay. Dagat-Dagatan Sewage Treatment Plant. Another wastewater facility operated by Maynilad is the Dagat-Dagatan Sewage Treatment Plant (STP). The STPs service area covers around 332.12 hectares of residential, institutional, commercial, and industrial establishments within Navotas, Malabon and Caloocan City. The facility consists of a collection system, interceptor, screen chamber, wet well, pumping station, aeration ponds, facultative ponds and polishing ponds. Wastewater generated by customers is collected and treated before discharge to Maypajo Creek. Dagat-Dagatan Septage Treatment Plant. Maynilad also operates a 450 CMD (cubic meters per day) Septage Treatment Plant inside the Dagat-dagatan STP compound. Septage collected by the companys desludging trucks is brought to this plant for treatment. The Dagat-dagatan sewage and septage treatment plant is the first facility of its kind in the Asia Pacific region to receive an Integrated Management System (IMS) certification for quality, environment, health and safety.

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If you live in most cities you are hooked into a sewer system, if you are in a developed nation everything goes to a water treatment plant. My cities water treatment plant has a screen that pulls out any solids and sends them to the landfill. Human stools are often liquefied by the time they get to the facility, so they go into the treatment plant where the liquid is infused with microorganisms that eat all biological matter, so that would be all the human waste. It takes about 24 hours and about a mile of tanks to aerate and allow the microorganisms to do their work. By the time they reach the end the water looks clear. The water is put into a still tank that allows the microorganisms that now have nothing to eat to die off and settle to the bottom. The final step is to kill any remaining bacteria, some cities use chemicals but mine uses ultraviolet light, the water at this point is almost clean enough to drink, but it is pumped into our park irrigation system or back into the streams. Other options, in many undeveloped nations raw sewage is pumped directly into the rivers and lakes. If you live in a rural area you may be on a septic system which is a big underground tank that stores all the sewage water, lets all the solids settle to the bottom and the liquid leaches out onto the surrounding land.