Mayors Who Damned San Roque Dam Were Joking, Right?
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan—Angry mayors Monday called for the decommissioning of the San Roque Dam , fearing its location near a fault line raised the possibility that it could collapse during an earthquake and wipe out Pangasinan province. (Source: Inquirer.Net ) Mayors of Pangasinan actually thought it was cool to damn the San Roque dam. As an ordinary citizen who studied land and water resources engineering in college, I could not help but wonder how the San Roque dam was built in the first place . . . if the mayors' claim was correct: that the dam was built on a fault line!