{"id":276885,"date":"2020-11-28T04:12:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T09:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=276885"},"modified":"2020-11-28T04:12:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T09:12:36","slug":"full-capacity-magat-dam-ops-possible-by-end-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/11\/28\/full-capacity-magat-dam-ops-possible-by-end-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Full-capacity Magat Dam ops possible by end-December"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_200556\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-200556\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1200px-Magat_dam_and_sign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-200556\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1200px-Magat_dam_and_sign.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1200px-Magat_dam_and_sign.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1200px-Magat_dam_and_sign-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1200px-Magat_dam_and_sign-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1200px-Magat_dam_and_sign-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-200556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The dam&#8217;s end-December water level may be almost at the 193 meters normal-high water level, Richard Orendain, hydrologist of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said on Friday. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=9932101\">Photo By Handtell &#8211; Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Magat Dam will likely be nearly filled with water by the end of the year, enabling the facility to operate at full capacity.<\/p>\n<p>The dam&#8217;s end-December water level may be almost at the 193 meters normal-high water level, Richard Orendain, hydrologist of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We expect Magat to have a lot of water,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>PAGASA reported Magat&#8217;s 6 a.m. water level on Friday at 189.34 meters, only 3.66 meters below the normal high.<\/p>\n<p>The dam was releasing excess water at the time, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The release of excess water aims to ensure the dam\u2019s structural integrity.<\/p>\n<p>Expected rainfall in the basin where Magat Dam is would help further raise its high water level, Orendain said, adding that for December, PAGASA forecast 240 mm. of rainfall over the Magat basin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s a lot of rain,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Magat Dam will likely be nearly filled with water by the end of the year, enabling the facility to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":200556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276885","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\/276885","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=276885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276886,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276885\/revisions\/276886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}