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Angat Dam is located within the Angat Watershed Forest Reserve in Barangay San Lorenzo (Hilltop), Norzagaray, Bulacan.It supplies potable water to Metro Manila and powers a hydro-electric power plant.
The Angat Watershed was first gazetted on July 26, 1904, as the Angat River Reserve through Executive Order No. 33 signed by Civil Governor Luke Edward Wright.It set aside the Angat River in the municipality of Norzagaray bordering Mounts Salacot, Balugan and Sulip in the Sierra Madre range and including the Bulagao and Bitbit creeks for purposes of the development of water power from the ...
Ipo Dam is a concrete water reservoir gravity dam found in the Philippines. The dam is located about 7.5 kilometres downstream of the Angat Dam within the Angat Watershed Forest Reserve in Norzagaray, Bulacan. It was a part of the Angat-Ipo-La Mesa water system. Its normal level is 101 m.
English: The Angat Watershed Forest Reserve houses the Angat Dam which supplies 98% of Metro Manila's water supply. The exact location in the photo is in the municipality of Norzagaray, Bulacan. The exact location in the photo is in the municipality of Norzagaray, Bulacan.
Norzagaray, officially the Municipality of Norzagaray (Tagalog: Bayan ng Norzagaray), is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 136,064 people. [4] It is the location of Angat Dam which sits on the lower realms of the Sierra Madre Mountain range.
The catchment or basin area of the river is 1,085 square kilometres (419 sq mi) located in the Angat Watershed Forest Reserve. [1] Angat River snakes through the municipalities of Doña Remedios Trinidad, Norzagaray, Angat, Bustos, San Rafael, Baliwag, Plaridel formerly "Quingua", Pulilan, Calumpit, Paombong, and Hagonoy. [2]
Bulacan lies in the southern portion of the fertile plains of Central Luzon. The area is drained by the Angat and Pampanga rivers. The Sierra Madre mountain range forms the highlands of Bulacan in the east and is a protected area known as the Angat Watershed Forest Reserve. Angat Lake, which was formed by the Angat Dam is located in that area ...
Manila Water gets its water from Angat Dam at the Angat River in Norzagaray, Bulacan, which is 38 meters (125 ft) north of Metro Manila. [11] It is a rockfill dam with a spillway equipped with three gates at a spilling level of 217 meters (712 ft).