2 Tarlac towns face more floods

CAMP AQUINO, Tarlac — The northern Tarlac towns of Paniqui and Moncada remain vulnerable to more floods, an aerial survey made by the Armed Forces’ Northern Luzon Command yesterday showed.

The Tarlac River continues to flow into the breached portion of the earth dike in Barangay Colibang—bang, Paniqui town. The village and neighboring barangays in Moncada are still flooded.

Vast ricefields in the two towns and in neighboring Camiling and in Bayambang, Pangasinan are still under water, the survey showed. The same goes for wide areas in Pampanga.

Farther north, the San Roque Dam, the second largest in Asia, was still releasing excess water into the lower section of Panga—sinan’s Agno River.

Tarlac first district Rep. Gilbert Teodoro Jr. has asked the Department of Public Works and Highways to give priority to the repair of the more than 700 meter long earth dike in Barangay Colibangbang which floodwaters washed away last Aug. 27.