Espino: San Roque Dam not a threat today
NOT even the next typhoon expected to hit the province will precipitate the release of a huge volume of water from the San Roque Dam.
Gov. Amado Espino Jr made this assurance based on the updates he has been receiving regularly from officials of the dam.
He said San Roque Dam is holding despite the fact that one gate each of the Ambuklao Dam in Bokod, Benguet; and the Binga Dam in Itogon, Benguet in the Upper Agno River Basin is open by one meter each.
The governor, who just arrived from a week-long official trip to China to confer with potential investors, took the opportunity to point out the benefit of the flood component of the dam.
“Just imagine if we have no San Roque…the water from 271 meters above sea level would have all flowed down to Pangasinan,” he said.
He pointed out that the flood being experienced in Dagupan City and 14 other towns of Pangasinan was not caused by San Roque Dam but from surrounding mountains in Pangasinan and in neighboring provinces.
As of Friday, the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management reported that some barangays in the following towns are still flooded, namely, Asingan, Balungao, Bayambang, Bolinao, Bugallon, Calasiao, Mangatarem, Rosales, San Nicolas, Sison, Sta. Barbara and Tayug.
The flooding in Sta. Barbara, Calasiao and Dagupan is traditionally caused by the swelling of the Sinocalan River which draws its water from the San Jose River in Urdaneta, the Tagamosing River in Binalonan which is connected to the Mt. Ampucao watershed in Tuba, Benguet.
The flooding in other areas is caused by excess rainwater from mountains in the east and west that flow into the Agno and Bued rivers before exiting to the Lingayen Gulf.
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