Bustos Dam spills water, Angat and Ipo Dam’s water level slightly increase
Mon Lazaro July 23, 2024 at 08:13 PM
CITY OF MALOLOS — Angat, Ipo, and Bustos water levels have risen Tuesday morning, with the latter spilling excess water.
Records from the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Office of Bulacan showed that the water elevation of Angat Dam as of 8:00 am yesterday (July 23) was 177.48 meters, Ipo Dam at 100.93 meters, and Bustos Dam at 17.41 meters.
Bustos Dam has reached its spilling level of 17.35 meters and has released excess water through its sluice gates, said Josephine Salazar, National Irrigation Administration regional director of Central Luzon.
On the other hand, Francis Clara, chief of the water control and coordinating unit of Bustos Dam, confirmed that Sluice Gates 1 and 2 were each raised yesterday morning by 1.5 meters and have been releasing a total of 78 cubic meters of water into the downstream river system.
As a result, the 177.48-meter water elevation of Angat Dam slightly rose by 0.53 meters compared to the previous level of 176.95 meters. This is still 2.52 meters below its minimum operating level of 180 meters and 34.52 meters below its normal high water level of 212 meters.
Meanwhile, the 100.93-meter water level of Ipo Dam yesterday was 1.08 meters higher compared to its previous day’s elevation of 99.85 meters, just 0.07 meters below its spilling level.
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