Angat water level improves further
Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 09:04:07 +0000
The southwest monsoon or “habagat” enhanced by tropical depression “Egay” brought significant improvement in the water level of Angat Dam yesterday.
Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration monitoring as of yesterday disclosed that the water level at Angat Dam has increased to 159.85 meters or 1.21 meters above the 158.64 meters last Sunday.
Since the Angat Dam reached its 160-meter critical level last June 22, the National Water Resources Board has implemented a lower water allocation for Metro Manila’s domestic needs, which affected the availability of tap water in many areas in Metro Manila and parts of Cavite and Rizal.
“For now allocation is still maintained at 36 cms (cubic meter per second) considering the (water) level is still below the critical,” NWRB Executive Director Sevillo David Jr. said. “We have to monitor if there is a steady increase in the elevation before we make any adjustments in the allocation,” he added.
Angat Dam’s water level started to gradually increase last Sunday, amid the enhancement of the habagat that brought varying rainfall intensities over a large portion of Luzon in the past few days.
Egay remained almost stationary over the Philippine Sea at noon yesterday. While it is still not expected to make landfall in any part of the country, its outer cloud band will bring stormy weather over the tip of Northern Luzon, PAGASA said.
Tropical cyclone warning Signal No. 1 has been raised over Batanes and Babuyan Group of Islands as Egay moves generally northwest. It was 195 kilometers east-northeast of Aparri, Cagayan or 205 kms east of Calayan, Cagayan around 10 a.m. yesterday. (Ellalyn V. Ruiz)