By JORDEENE
SHEEX LAGARE on
The P275-million
rehabilitation of San Roque dam on the Agno River in Pangasinan has been
completed three months ahead of schedule, state-controlled National Power Corp.
(Napocor) said on Friday.
Napocor said they
managed to rehabilitate the 200-meter-tall, 1.2-kilometer long embankment dam
in the last quarter of 2017.
Napocor commenced the
rehabilitation project after seeing traces of erosion at the base of the dam’s
spillway. This was said to be caused by scouring and aggravated by extreme
typhoons that struck the dam, including Typhoon Ineng (international name:
Goni) and Typhoon Lando (international name: Koppu) in 2015.
Napocor-PSALM and San
Roque Power Corp. (SRPC), which operates the 435-megawatt (MW) San Roque power
plant, split the total cost of the rehabilitation project.
Both Napocor-PSALM and
SRPC conducted separate inspections and assessments to ensure the satisfactory
condition and integrity of San Roque dam.
“The rehabilitation
project was immediately bid out and implemented in January of last year to
avoid further erosion and increased rehab cost,” Napocor President and Chief
Executive Officer Pio Benavidez said.
The San Roque
Multi-purpose Project was constructed in 1995 under a Build-Operate-Transfer
(BOT) program, which was designed to aid the country in terms of power
generation, irrigation, flood control, and water quality improvement.
Under the implementing
rules and regulations of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001
(EPIRA), Napocor and PSALM shall remain responsible for the dam structure and
all other structures necessary for its reliable operation.
Furthermore, the two
state-run entities have an operation and maintenance agreement with private
operators of the power plants to cover the dam structures.
Napocor is commissioned
by the law to provide generation and associated power delivery systems in
missionary areas or islands and communities that are connected to the main transmission
grid, among others.
It operates 275 power
facilities in 190 municipalities across 34 provinces in the archipelago.
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