Tunnel construction of the 12.2 Billion Kaliwa Dam project has officially already started.
The Kaliwa Dam Project is a 60-meter-high dam, 100 meter riverbed elevation, and a reservoir surface area of 291 hectares, with full supply level volume of 57 million cubic meters.
It also includes a 27.7-kilometer raw water conveyance tunnel traversing from the dam's location to Teresa, Rizal.
The 291 hectare project is within Barangay Pagsangahan, General Nakar and Barangay Magsaysay, Infanta, both in Quezon province.
It will traverse the provinces of Quezon and Rizal and is seen to deliver 600 million liters of water per day to the capital region and nearby provinces, reducing dependence on Angat Dam in Bulacan.
According to the Environment department's Environmental and Management Bureau (EMB), a total of 1,465 households in Quezon and Rizal will be affected by the construction of the Kaliwa Dam. It will also "indirectly impact" 56 IP households and place around 284 more "at risk of flooding and other effects of possible dam failure or dam break,
Kailua Dam though is expected to provide a longer term solution to the water supply issues of Metro Manila.
The project costs P12.2 billion of which 85 percent will be funded by China via official development assistance and the remaining 15 percent by the Philippine government.communities in General Naka, Quezon and Tanay Rizal, as well as at the Kaliwa Watershed Forest Reserve.
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