(UPDATES) TWO major Luzon dams — La Mesa Dam in Quezon City and Ipo Dam in Norzagaray, Bulacan — have breached their spilling levels due to incessant rains spawned by Storm Enteng and the enhanced southwest monsoon (habagat).

Operators opened one floodgate of the Ipo Dam in a bid to control the release of excess water in minimum amounts at 0.9 cubic meters per second, Nathaniel Servando, Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) administrator, told The Manila Times (TMT) on Wednesday.

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