Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Pantabangan Dam is an earth-fill embankment dam on the Pampanga River located in Pantabangan in Nueva Ecija province of the Philippines. The multi-purpose dam provides water for irrigation and hydroelectric power generation while its reservoir, Pantabangan Lake, affords flood control. The reservoir is considered one of the largest in Southeast ...
Residents were relocated to higher ground overlooking the vast reservoir, which became the new Pantabangan town center. Before the expansion of the dam through the Casecnan Project in the 1990s, the belfry of the 18th century church resurfaced from the dam's summer low water level. During drought in 1983, some areas of the old town emerged. [6]
The multi-purpose dam is situated at the confluence of Pampanga River's two headwaters, namely the Pantabangan and Carranglan Rivers in the municipality of Pantabangan. [1] It stretches above the dam site for 21 kilometres (13 mi) to where Carranglan River originates in the Caraballo on the north, and for 18 kilometres (11 mi) to where ...
It functions as an irrigation, a hydroelectric power generation, and a flood control dam of Nueva Ecija. The dam's reservoir, Pantabangan Lake, is among the largest in Southeast Asia and is noted for its cleanliness. The dam's hydroelectric facility comprises two 60 MW turbines, contributing significantly to the region's power supply.
Pantabangan Dam; Pasa Dam; Pulangi Dam; San Roque Dam; Wawa Dam; ... (the largest earth-filled dam in the world and also the largest by structural volume) Rawal Dam ...
At the higher sections of the basin, dams — especially the Pantabangan Dam in Pantabangan, Nueva Ecija — provide irrigation for farms in the province of Nueva Ecija. At the lower sections of the basin, where the Pampanga delta lies, the Pampanga River system divides into small branches, crisscrossed with fishponds to form a network of ...
Casecnan Irrigation and Hydroelectric Plant is a dam diverting water from the Casecnan and Taan Rivers to the Pantabangan Reservoir through a 26-kilometre (16 mi) long tunnel located near Pantabangan and Muñoz in Nueva Ecija province of the Philippines.
Pantabangan Dam (1977); Cost: $20.74 million (done) Angat Dam (1967); Cost: $82 million (done) Ambuklao Dam (1956); Cost: $66 million (done) References