Joggers, strollers visit controversial Manila Bay 'white sand' project site

Several joggers, random visitors taking their morning walk gather at the view deck of the controversial white sand project in Manila Bay early Saturday morning.

In a post in its Twitter account, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources said that its "beach nourishment" project has continued.

LOOK: Onlookers flock at the Manila Bay early Saturday morning as the DENR continues with its beach nourishment project. #ManilaBayRehabilitation pic.twitter.com/TwRvNR2feT

— ???? (@DENROfficial) September 11, 2020

On Friday, members of some environmental groups and individual advocates, staged a protest rally against the white sand project, dumping some 500 tons of artificial sand from crushed dolomite boulders from Cebu.

Friday's protesters said they are opposed to the nearly P400 million "aesthetic surgery" being done by the DENR on the bay, adding that natural rehabilitation would be more preferable.

The white sand layering on a portion of the Manila Bay shoreline along Roxas Boulevard is only a part of the P397.8-million Manila Baywalk cleanup plan by the DENR.

Kilos-protesta kontra dolomite dumping, isinasagawa sa Manila Bay @gmanews @UnangHirit pic.twitter.com/1hiy7qqu2r

— Bam Alegre (@BamAlegre_) September 10, 2020

—LBG, GMA News