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| Angat Dam |
MALOLOS
CITY—Planned cloud seeding operations over Angat Dam is likely to be
implemented on the first week of May to avert possible water shortage in Metro
Manila, the National Power Corporation (Napocor) said..
This
came as water elevation at the Angat Dam dropped to 183.97 meters above sea
level (masl) at 6AM on Saturday, April 26.
The
said water elevation is less than four meters before it drop to crit5ical 180
masl.
Gladys
Cruz-Sta. Rita, president of the Napocor said that they are now finalizing
memorandum of agreements (MOA) and contracts now.
While
she did not disclose who are the parties involved in the MOA and contract,
Engineer Rodolfo German, the general manager of the Angat River Hydroelectric
Power Plant (Arhepp) said the Napocor is now coordinating with the Department
of Agriculture (DA).
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| Engineer German |
DA
is the mother agency of the Bureau of Soils and Water Management (BSWM) that
usually takes the lead in cloud seeding operations over Angat Dam that supplies
97 percent of Metro Manila’s potable water requirement.
Cloud
seeding operations is usually conducted when water elevation at the Angat Dam
nears the critical 180 masl and when rainy season is still far.
It
is mean to secure water requirement for about 13-Million population of the
metropolis.
Earlier,
German told PromdiNews that since January, rain hardly fall over the 53,000
hectares Angat watershed. Dino
Balabo
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