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Sumag River Diversion Project

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192:. This resulted to a complete stoppage of operation of UATP as boulders, logs, and mud clogged the tunnel. It took 3.5 months to declog the tunnel while Metro Manila experienced a 30% drop in supply of water. MWSS sought a permanent solution, and this resulted to the Umiray-Angat Transbasin Rehabilitation Project (UATRP). 202:
In 2014, the SRDP finally commenced and the objective was to connect the Sumag River with the existing UATP. The P717 million contract was awarded by MWSS and Maynilad to Cavite Ideal International Construction and Development. The project has been beset with delays and a suspension because of a
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system diverts waters from the Sumag River, a tributary of the Umiray River, east of the Angat Basin. The SRDP is forecasted to add 188 mld to the existing 777.6 mld capacity of the UATP.
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Studies for the UATRP began in 2013 and on December 28, 2015 the MWSS released the Notice of Award to A.M. Oreta Construction. However, work has been stalled by the
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The UATP was completed in June 2000, but on November 29, 2004, the tunnel and its facilities were severely damaged because of the effects of
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incident resulting to the deaths of six workers and surveyors in 2016. In November 2019, President
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providing a support last July 2020. As of March 2021, the project is 71.29% complete.
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Project Completion Report on the Umiray-Angat Transbasin Project
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Unidad Nacional para la Gestión del Riesgo de Desastres
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reservoir. The 600 meter long and 2.50 meter diameter
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Coordinates
14°56′11″N 121°20′50″E / 14.93639°N 121.34722°E / 14.93639; 121.34722
General Nakar
Quezon
Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System
Umiray-Angat Transbasin Project
Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System
Angat Dam
tunnel
aqueduct
Typhoon Unding
Local Government Unit
flash-flooding
Rodrigo Duterte
Danilo Suarez
Aqueduct (water supply)
Hydroelectricity
"EDCOP"
Project Completion Report on the Umiray-Angat Transbasin Project
"Impact Evaluation Study on Public-Private Partnership the case of Angat Water Supply Optimization Project and the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System"


"MWSS - Sumag River Diversion Project"


"MWSS Annual Report 2017"
"Lesson Learned from the Extreme Natural Disaster"
"Maynilad signs project contract for additional water supply"
"1 dead, 5 missing in Sumag tunnel flash flood in Quezon"
"Quezon water supply project restarts after four-year suspension"

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