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Caliraya Dam is an embankment dam located in the town of Lumban province of Laguna, in the Sierra Madre Mountain Range of the Philippines.The reservoir created by the dam, Lake Caliraya, initially supplied one of the oldest hydroelectric plants in the Philippines, and later became a popular recreational area for numerous water sports and fishing.
Lake Caliraya was created after the construction of Caliraya Dam, an embankment dam started in 1939 by US Army Corps of Engineers Chief in the Philippines, Lieutenant Colonel (later Major General) Hugh J. Casey, with the approval of Philippine Commonwealth President Manuel L. Quezon.
Caliraya Dam is an embankment dam located in the town of Lumban province of Laguna, in the Sierra Madre Mountain Range of the Philippines. The reservoir created by the dam, Lake Caliraya, initially supplied one of the oldest hydroelectric plants in the Philippines, and later became a recreational area for water sports and fishing.
The lake was created when Lumot Dam, an embankment dam, was constructed damming the Lumot River, creating an auxiliary water reservoir for Lake Caliraya as part of the Kalayaan Pumped-Storage Hydroelectric Plant. [1] The waters between the two lakes are conveyed by a 2.3 kilometres (1.4 mi) penstock. [2]
The dam was constructed across Lumot River creating a reservoir now known as Lumot Lake or Sierra Lake. Lumot Lake provides additional water through a Bell-mouth spillway and tunnel to Caliraya Lake , which in turn serves as the upper reservoir for the Kalayaan Pumped-Storage Hydroelectric Plant.
English: Caliraya-Lumot Watershed Reservation Proclaimed Pres. Proc. 573 Caliraya and Lumot Reservoir Forest Reserve on NIC Plan Executive Order No. 224 Lumot, Cavinti, Laguna Silangan, Talaongan, Cavinti, Laguna along the Cavinti-Caliraya Zigzag Road (Kanluran & Silangan, Talaongan-Lumot) of the Cavinti-Caliraya Road Kanluran, Talaongan, Cavinti, Laguna from the Lumban-Caliraya Road 8,310 L.M ...
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