BAGUIO CITY – Another typhoon is expected to hit Luzon this weekend and the city is in full alert.

The city is now addressing fears of another collapse at the Irisan Dump Facility to ensure the safety of nearby residents.

Members of the City Engineers Office (CEO) and City Environment and Parks and management Office (CEPMO) has completed covering the top most portion of the exposed trash at the Irisan Controlled Dump Facility here.

The cover is a thick tarpaulin canvas which would reduce and prevent the infiltration of water into the innate garbage for stabilization purposes.

CEPMO head Cordelia lacsamana said, 'volume of rain water from the typhoon might cause the remaining garbage not yet stabilized to slide down'.

'We need to cover a large area of the garbage to prevent water from seeping in, this is part of the remedial measures we have discussed with the DENR', she said.

Some personnel of the CEO and CEPMO have also started clearing mud and trash to ascertain that the drainage system of the facility will not be compromised.

Authorities believe the abnormal volume of water which directly sipped through the facility might have triggered the retaining wall to collapse.

'We are in the process of stabilizing critical slopes to avoid erosion during typhoons, I think there is another one coming', Lacsamana said.

Sand bags are also being placed in critical areas of the embankments.

Meanwhile, Mayor Mauricio Domogan said the clearing of remaining garbage which spilled is still on-going and has asked the Punong Barangaysof Asin and the neighboring Tuba Municipality to provide the list of volunteers who are helping in the clearing operations.

Domogan said the list of names is needed so 'job orders' can be prepared.

Domogan also said he is happy that majority of the barangays of the city are complying with waste segregation at source.

'The ERS machines are now being used in its full capacity because of the increase of the biodegradable wastes which we are collecting', he said.

'We still have a lot to do, I have already sent personnel of the City Engineers office to assess other damages, we will do everything we can to help', he added.