THE USE OF SPONGES TO TRANSFER FLOOD WATERS TO THE
UNDERGROUND SEWAGE SYSTEMS
Areola, Clapano, Geopano, Miquiabas, Muñasque
Rationale
Flood mitigation reduces the
overall risk of flood damage to the
structure and also reduces the severity of
flood damage when it occurs. Examples
of community mitigation may include
planning and zoning, floodplain
management, discouraging development
in high-risk flood areas, or providing
outreach and education. Structural
stabilization measures include levees,
bridges, floodplains, reservoirs, among
numerous other sources. The goal of
environmental mitigation programs
is to divert water from citizens and
communities.
Each year, a large part of the state
is hit by flooding. Due to flooding, crops
and houses are flooded, health issues are
severe, and the status of the community
is affected. Options and opportunities for
jobs and employment decline and multi-
challenges make societies highly
vulnerable.
To better deal with floods and
their changing characters, one way to do
this is to build people's adaptive
capacities by increasing their awareness,
knowledge base, mitigation, and ability to
make a living through the selection of
appropriate crops and techniques. This is
essential, but it is just as much a
challenge.
Objectives
This study on flood seeks to attain the
following objectives:
 To propose a new plan to
lessen direct losses and
intangible losses. In flood-prone
areas, even though there have
been other mitigation plans,
people still get injured, go missing
and die. Due to this inevitable
hazard effect, if not improved,
psychological challenges such as
anxiety, worry, depression, and
trauma are in line. (Ambowang,
2019).
 To propose a new alleviation
of the destruction of human-
made structures near
seashores. In the Philippines,
there does not seem to be that
many mitigation plans for utility
services, local businesses,
revenue, expenses connected to
the provision of assistance, and
lodging. The most common
mitigations are other than radios,
Tv's, and flood level alerts via SMS
(Natividad, J.G, Mendez, J.M,
2018), which are basically for
human safety. The only known
mitigation to lessen indirect losses
is a dam (Project Highlights: Metro
Manila Flood Management, n.d)
and sewerage (MMDA_MISS. n.d). 
Description of the plan
The mitigation plans our group
created is a reference to both the
sponge city from China and the
underground tunnel of Japan. The
project is a water drainage system
that has the purpose of mitigating the
 flood. The water running off from the wetlands and rivers while the rainfall and
surface of the city is channeled storm periods occur.
through drains and canals into a
sponge. The sponge will then absorb Fang, X., Gong, Y., Li, J., Li, X., & Wang,
the collected water and release it into W. (2016). Case Studies of the
underground water drainage. The Sponge City Program in China. World
water that is being released will be led Environmental and Water Resources
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tube attached to the columns 10.1061/9780784479858.031. Retrieved
underground will lead the water to a from
container where the accumulated https://www.businessinsider.com/china-
floodwaters will then be then carried is-building-sponge-cities-that-absorb-
into the sea through a pipe leading water-2017-11
from the underground drainage
Zhang, Yu. (2017). Sponge City Theory
system to the body of water if it gets
and its Application in Landscape.
full. In this way, the floodwater will be
World Construction. 6. 29.
put on a process of cycle, causing less
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to no damage to the structures above
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the underground, such as the city.
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What is more, not only will the sponge
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act as alternate drainage, it would
prevent trashes that normal drainage Ortiz, D. A. (2018, November 29). The
would welcome, thus avoiding underground cathedral protecting
unnecessary cleaning priority. Tokyo from floods. Retrieved from
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RESOURCES
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The inspiration for this idea comes protecting-tokyo-from-floods
from China. In the year 2015, the country
APPENDICES
launched the Sponge City Initiative
wherein the main goal was to soak up
floodwaters. This unique engineering
marvel was implemented in 30 different
cities. The country hopes that the
rainwater absorb can be reused for future
use.

Another inspiration for this idea comes Digital Representation of the Plan
from Japan, which is the Metropolitan
Area Outer Underground Discharge
Channel. Located in Tokyo, the flood
mitigation is an enormous water tank that
crowns Tokyo's defenses against flooding,
where 500-tonne pillars supporting the
ceiling. It is the world's biggest hidden
floodwater diversion facility hidden 22
Structural Representation
meters underground, intended to
alleviate the flooding of significant city