Irrigation for eight towns seen in December 2018
THE Agno River Irrigation System Extension Project (ARISEP) expected to be completed in December 2018, will benefit more than 10,000 farmers in eight towns tilling 12,984 hectares of land in Pangasinan.
This was revealed by Ceferino Sta. Ana, project manager of ARISEP, a major irrigation project in Pangasinan, when he briefed participants to the Irrigation Stakeholders Summit at CSI Stadia in Dagupan City last Wednesday afternoon.
ARISEP, started in May 2015, is already 51 percent complete, and is expected
provide to year-round irrigation to rice lands in seven towns, namely, Natividad, San Nicolas, San Quintin, Sta. Maria, Tayug, Balungao, Umingan and Rosales.
He said the P2.6 billion ARISEP is Phase II of the Agno River Integrated Irrigation Project (ARIIP). (Phase I is already servicing irrigation requirements of some 18,000 hectares in eastern and central Pangasinan).
The project consists of rehabilitation and restoration of existing old irrigation line canals and construction of new canals.
Source of water for both Phases I and II of ARIIP is the San Roque Dam, the highest rock-filled dam in southeast Asia and the second highest in the whole of Asia. (Leonardo Micua)
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