first quarter of 2025, citing that some irrigation components may not be completed yet this year.
He previously revealed that they asked for a time extension due to the challenges brought by the weather condition and the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID)-19 pandemic. The original timetable for completion of the project was December 2023, including irrigation dams, flood control systems, and hydropower plants in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th districts of the province.
The construction activities for JRMP II commenced on April 10, 2019, few months before the COVID-19 pandemic that affected movements of people and goods globally.
Meanwhile, during the meeting of the Infrastructure Development Committee (IDC) of the Regional Development Council on July 31, JRMP II Project Management Office Manager Jonel Borres reported that the physical accomplishment of the project is already at 68.56 percent as of July 2023.
Borres said that the Alibunan River Catch Dam and Jalaur Afterbay Dam, which will provide irrigation water to farmlands in Zone 1 of the project and regulate water from the impounding dam to the High Line Canal once operational, are already considered “substantially completed.”
He also noted that the construction of the Jalaur High Dam, which will serve as an impounding dam with an estimated capacity of 250.70 million cubic meters for irrigation and bulk water supply once completed, is “nearing substantial completion” as it already reached 99 meters out of its structural height of 109 meters.
