PANTABANGAN—National Irrigation Administration chief Antonio Nangel said 80 mini-hydro power plants are lined up in NIA-managed irrigation systems.
In Bulacan, Angat dam will undergo rehabilitation following the allocation of P5.7 billion said administrator Gerry Esquivel of the Manila Water and Sewerage System.
Governor Wilfredo Sy-Alvarado said he was informed about the approval of the Department of Budget and Management to enable bidding of the three-year repair of the reservoir.
As designed, the min-hydros would produce 40 megawatts to ease the power deficit while before the water is channeled to farms.
The agency identified 26 possible sites in Luzon, 8 in Nueva Ecija alone, two in Visayas and four in Mindanao for a combined output of 15,214 KW.
“If it can be done in Japan, it can also be done in the Philippines where the same elevation of irrigation canals abounds,” Nangel said.
Earlier, Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala was joined by Nangel in a drive to grow 250,000 fruit trees in the watershed of the Pantabangan Dam system.
“ We have started planting 150,000 trees but mostly double in this water shed of Masiway dam,” he told Manila Standard, noting a target of a million trees by 2015.
The launching was joined by Nueva Ecija Vice Gov, Jose Garcia Padiernos, Llanera town Mayor Lorna Mae Vero, Engr. Josephine Salazar of NIA-UPPRIS along with division engineers Santos Viernes,. Lito Mangunay,. Joe Ariel Domingo, Carlito Gapasin, and Engr. Eugenio Conde.
Nangel said the project is part of the administration’s National Greening Program. With Orlan L. Mauricio
(Published in the Manila Standard Today newspaper on /2012/June/14) source
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