MANILA, Philippines — If National Irrigation Administration (NIA) administrator Ricardo Visaya were to be asked, the discharge of water from Magat Dam was not the “major cause” of the flooding in Cagayan amid Typhoon Ulysses.
During the joint hearing of the House committee on agriculture and food and the committee on North Luzon growth quadrangle, Visaya presented a matrix which shows previous weather events that hit Cagayan.
In the said presentation, Visaya said that during Typhoon Emong in May 2009, Magat Dam’s maximum water discharge was at 8,068 cubic meters per second (cms), with the water level at Buntun Bridge in Tuguegarao reaching 9.82 meters.
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