Pangasinan: A total of 501 families or 1,717 individuals in Pangasinan are staying in evacuation centers as of Tuesday morning, based on monitoring by the Pangasinan Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO).
According to Philippines News Agency, the evacuees are in Agno, Bani, Burgos, Mabini, Lingayen, Aguilar, Bugallon, Labrador, Binmalay, Mangatarem, Calasiao, Sta. Barbara, Alcala towns, and the cities of Alaminos and Dagupan. Ron Maegan Equila, team leader of the PDRRMO emergency operations center, stated in a phone interview on Tuesday, "Yesterday, we experienced heavy rains. The situation here in the province of Pangasinan is that our lands and rivers are silted. With the heavy rains, floodwaters in residential areas continue to rise."
A team from the PDRRMO was deployed in Mangatarem to assist in the ongoing evacuation of residents. Equila mentioned that the provincial government, local government units, and the national government continue to provide relief packs to the affected families. Based on their monitoring, 51 barangays from 10 municipalities and one city out of the 48 localities are still experiencing flooding. Of the total number, 17 barangays are in Calasiao, 11 in Mangatarem, and six each in Lingayen and Bani.
The Marusay River in Calasiao is at spilling level, while the Sinocalan River in Sta. Barbara is above critical level, and Pantal River in Dagupan City is at critical level as of 5 a.m. on Tuesday. Equila stated, "We are in blue alert status since the typhoon and still not decreasing to white alert even though we are not experiencing weather disturbances aside from the southwest monsoon. That means our augmentation teams will remain."
The partial cost of damage to agriculture and fishery sectors in the province is estimated at PHP262.9 million, with PHP1.8 million in livestock. The partial cost of damage to infrastructure is PHP175 million, based on reports from LGUs consolidated by the PDRRMO as of Tuesday. Equila noted that most of the damage to agriculture is on rice, corn, and high-value commercial crops. Damage to infrastructure includes provincial roads and road dikes; the Provincial Engineering Office is still consolidating and validating the reports.