Dagupan City still flooded days after onslaught of ‘Lawin’

DAGUPAN CITY, Pangasinan: Three days after the onslaught of super Typhoon Lawin, the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CDRRMC) in this city is still on red alert as water from up than 10 barangay (villages).

Being the catch basin of all water from upstream of the Sinocalan River, Dagupan City catches all the water cascading from the upland in case of heavy rains and typhoons before ending in the Lingayen Gulf, according to CDRRMC Of

10 villages close to the Sinocalan River are still underwater in Dagupan, the reason that some 92 families evacuated prior to the typhoon’s arrival still remain at the Dagupan People’s Astrodome, the remaining evacuation center in the city still open.

- rangay Lasip, Chico, Bacayao Sur, Bacayao Norte, Bacayao Sur, Lasip Grande, Pogo Grande, Lucap, part of Pantal, part of Mayombo, Barangay 2 and 3 and part of Barangay 1.

City on a man-made river channel and culvert built by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) - waters from Banaoang, Calasiao to Dagupan City instead of the water

Most of the evacuees staying at People’s Astrodome come from in Barangay Malued, Lasip Grande, Lasip Chico, Bacayao Sur and Bacayao Norte.

Meanwhile, water level at San Roque dam along the Agno river in San Manuel town at 6:00 a.m. on Sunday stood at 285.98 meters above sea level, higher than the dam’s high water level of 280 masl.

The last open gate of the dam, Gate 3B, was closed at 10 a.m. of Binga dam in Itogon, Benguet, are still open by 2.5 meters and four gates of Ambuklao dam, opened by two meters.

Corporation (NPC) said it had ordered must-run mode for turbines of San Roque in order to bring down the big volume of water still impounded at the dam’s reservoir.

This means that only water coming from the turbines of the power plant is being discharged by the dam downstream.