Water in Angat Dam continues to recede
MALOLOS, Philippines —The water level in Angat Dam has continued to drop.
Records from the Bulacan provincial disaster risk reduction and management office show that as of 8 a.m. yesterday, the water level was at 183.51 meters or only 3.51 meters above its minimum operating level.
The dam‘s normal high water level is 212 meters.
Sevillo David Jr., executive director of the National Water Resources Board (NWRB), had earlier said the dam’s irrigation and power generation allocations would be suspended once the water level drops to the minimum operating mark of 180 meters.
Josephine Salazar, National Irrigation Administration-Central Luzon regional director, said the NWRB has not suspended Angat Dam’s irrigation allocation for rice fields in Bulacan and parts of Pampanga.
Salazar said the NWRB had projected that the dam’s water level would continue to recede until August.
Angat supplies 90 percent of Metro Manila’s water requirement. It also provides water to irrigate some 28,000 hectares of farmland in Central Luzon.
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