Angat Dam (Tagalog: [aŋˈɡat]) is a concrete water reservoir embankment hydroelectric dam that supplies

Metro Manila and nearby provinces with water. It was a part of the Angat-Ipo-La Mesa water system. The
reservoir supplies about 90 percent of raw water requirements for Metro Manila through the facilities of
the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System and it irrigates about 28,000 hectares of farmland in
the provinces of Bulacan and Pampanga.

Description

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 dam is 131 meters high and impounds water from the Angat River that subsequently created the
Angat Lake.

Angat Dam has a normal high water level of 210 meters, according to the Philippine Atmospheric,
Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa).

It has three gates opening a total of 1.5 meters to gradually release water that had accumulated due to
incessant rains during typhoons.

In comparison, Ipo Dam, located downstream of Angat Dam, has three gates and 100.8 meters as its
normal high water level (NHWL). Ambuklao Dam on the other hand, has two gates with NHWL at 752
meters. Binga Dam which sits downstream from Ambuklao has three gates and NHWL at 575 meters.
San Roque Dam, which was receiving water from Ambuklao and Binga, has NHWL at 280 meters.[2]

Angat Dam supplies potable water and energy to Metro Manila and nearby areas. Tourists also visit the
dam for fishing, boating and hunting.[3]

In the early 1990s, the Philippine government and Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System
studied tapping the Umiray River basin in General Nakar, Quezon as an additional source for the Angat
Dam Reservoir, as the growing population of Metro Manila pushed the demand for potable water up. This
has led to the Umiray-Angat Transbasin Project (UATP), which began in July 1995 completed in June
2000 with a total cost of PhP 4 billion. The UATP involved constructing a 13 km 4.3 meter diameter
diversion tunnel which channeled the headwaters of Umiray River at its intake point to Macua, in Doña
Remedios Trinidad, Bulacan, providing additional of 300 mld to the Angat Dam Reservoir.[4][5][6]

As of 2010, Angat Dam is providing 4,000 million liters a day (mld) out of a demand of 4,395 mld, and this
is to grow to 5.054 mld in 2015, and 4,680 mld in 2020. Successive administration have already pushed
for additional sources, such as the Laiban Dam, Kaliwa Dam, and Kanan Dam.[7]