{"id":54740,"date":"2015-07-08T17:09:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T09:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=54740"},"modified":"2015-07-08T17:09:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T09:09:47","slug":"la-mesa-dam-placed-on-red-alert-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/08\/la-mesa-dam-placed-on-red-alert-status\/","title":{"rendered":"La Mesa Dam placed on &#8216;red alert&#8217; status"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_54775\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54775\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/la-mesa-dam-wikimapia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54775\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/la-mesa-dam-wikimapia.jpg\" alt=\"La Mesa Dam Watershed (Wikimapia)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/la-mesa-dam-wikimapia.jpg 500w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/la-mesa-dam-wikimapia-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">La Mesa Dam Watershed (Wikimapia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said on Wednesday that the La Mesa Dam in Novaliches, Quezon City has been placed on &#8220;red alert&#8221; status due to heavy rains experienced for the past few days.<\/p>\n<p>In a radio interview, PAGASA Hydrologist Richard Orendain said, &#8220;We&#8217;re monitoring the La Mesa Dam which is in red alert status.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He noted the water level of the dam has reached 79.59 meters, slowly nearing the 80.15-meter spilling level.<\/p>\n<p>Residents in low-lying areas along the path of the Tullahan River, which emanates from the La Mesa Dam, are advised to take the necessary precaution.<\/p>\n<p>Tullahan River traverses several barangays in Novaliches, Quezon City and Caloocan, Valenzuela City and Malabon City before emptying at the Manila Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Angat Dam in Norzagaray, Bulacan, on the other hand, has an improved water level at 169.62 meters, but is still far from its normal operating level of 180 meters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) said on Wednesday that the La Mesa Dam in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":54775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95,9072],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","category-weather","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54740","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=54740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}