CITY OF MALOLOS, Bulacan — Ipo Dam has terminated its water spilling operations on Saturday morning (Oct. 26).
Josephine Salazar, Central Luzon regional director of the National Irrigation Administration (NIA), in her statament confirmed that as of 9 a.m. on Saturday, the water spilling operation of Ipo Dam has been stopped.
“The local inflow to Bustos Dam coming from its upstream river was monitored at 64 cubic meter per second (CMS) of water,” Salazar said.
As these developed, Bustos Dam’s Sluice Gates 1 and 2 were closed at 10 a.m. with its water elevation at 16.91 meter while its Sluice Gate 3 remains raised at three meters that releases 64 CMS of water on its downstream river system before flowing out to the Manila Bay
On the other hand, Angat Dam’s water elevation improves by more than a meter on Saturday morning.
According to ret. Col. Manuel Lukban, chief, Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office of Bulacan, records from PDRRMO showed that the dam’s water elevation as of 11 a.m. on Saturday was at 201.70 meter, Ipo Dam at 100.36 meter and Bustos Dam at 16.91 meter.
“Angat Dam’s water level is 8.30 meters below its 210-meter normal high water elevation for the rainy season or 10.30 meters below its normal high water elevation of 212 meter for the dry season,” Lukban said.
As these developed, the water elevation of Ipo Dam has gone down to 100.36 meter as against its spilling level of 101.00 meter while Bustos Dam water level has gone down to 16.91 meter as against its 17.35-meter spilling level.
Ipo and Bustos Dams have been conducting preemptive release of water due to heavy rains dumped by Severe Tropical Storm Kristine in the last several days.
Angat Dam provides more than 90 percent of Metro Manila’s raw water needs and supply additional hydropower energy to the Luzon Grid and supplies irrigation water to around 25,000 hectares of irrigated ricelands in Bulacan and parts of Pampanga. (UnliNews Online)
