{"id":226357,"date":"2019-08-10T22:48:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-11T02:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=226357"},"modified":"2019-08-10T22:48:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T02:48:59","slug":"angat-dam-water-level-may-normalize-this-month-pagasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/08\/10\/angat-dam-water-level-may-normalize-this-month-pagasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Angat Dam water level may normalize this month: PAGASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_211654\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-211654\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AngatDam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-211654\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AngatDam.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AngatDam.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AngatDam-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AngatDam-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AngatDam-20x15.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-211654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Angat Dam, in Norzagaray, Bulacan, Philippines (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=41616154\">Photo By Nikbert16 at English Wikipedia &#8211; Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., CC BY 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Angat Dam&#8217;s water level may reach the 180-meter minimum operating level (MOL) as Luzon is expected to experience more rain, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>PAGASA hydrologist Richard Orendain said the continuous rain can increase the volume of water in the reservoir.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA daily average rise of 0.30 meter to 0.40 meter can bring Angat\u2019s water level to the MOL by this month\u2019s end,\u201d he said, taking into\u00a0account the 36 cubic meters per second water allocation of the dam for Metro Manila.<\/p>\n<p>Orendain said tropical cyclones (TCs), low-pressure areas, the southwest monsoon (habagat) and thunderstorms can still bring\u00a0rain to Luzon including the watershed hosting Angat.<\/p>\n<p>Angat Dam supply for irrigation, power generation, and Metro Manila\u2019s water needs.<\/p>\n<p>The government earlier suspended the release of Angat water for irrigation, if its water level dips, to ensure a\u00a0continuous water supply for Metro Manila.<\/p>\n<p>This year, Angat Dam\u2019s water dipped below the MOL due to El Ni\u00f1o phenomenon or the prolonged dry spell.<\/p>\n<p>For August, PAGASA has forecast two to four TCs in the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR), one of which became Typhoon Hanna (international name Lekima).<\/p>\n<p>PAGASA reported that Angat\u2019s 6 a.m. water level on Saturday was at 172.31 meters, which is 1.43 meters higher than the 170.88 meters elevation 24 hours earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Orendain said \u2018Hanna\u2019, which exited the PAR, helped Angat recover by enhancing &#8220;habagat,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if TCs don\u2019t landfall, these weather systems can still enable &#8220;habagat&#8221; to bring more rain,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Angat Dam&#8217;s water level may reach the 180-meter minimum operating level (MOL) as Luzon is expected to experience more &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":211654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-catherine-teves","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226358,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226357\/revisions\/226358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}