CABANATUAN CITY - The National Irrigation Administration is pushing for the immediate rehabilitation of “dead waterways” as part of a two-point measure to mitigate the effect to crops of releasing water from Pantabangan Dam in eastern Nueva Ecija.
Engineer Antonio Nangel, operations manager of the NIA-Upper Pampanga River Integrated Irrigation System, said that part of the water released from Pantabangan Dam would be channeled trough the Peñaranda River Irrigation System for irrigation purposes.
In his recommendation, Nangel also pushed for the rehabilitation of the so-called Patay na Ilog, a tributary of the Upper Pampanga River in Barangay Vega, Bongabon, Nueva Ecija. The rehabilitation, he added, will lessen the pressure on the Pampanga River.
This after NIA personnel talked with barangay officials in Barangay Vega who told them that the release of water had caused damages to crops in Baranggay Vega, Bongabon, prompted the recommendation, Nangel explained.
Irrigation authorities decided to open the spillway of Pantabangan Dam when the water elevation rose to 220.8 meters, nearing the automatic spilling level, due to heavy water inflows brought by Typhoon Queenie. -Armand M. Galang
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