Wawa Dam, also known as Montalban Dam,[1] is a gravity dam constructed over the Marikina River in the municipality of Rodriguez, Rizal, Philippines.[2] The slightly arched dam is situated in the 360-metre (1,180 ft) high Montalban Gorge or Wawa Gorge,[3] a water gap in the Sierra Madre Mountains, east of Manila.
Scenery in June 2013
Construction of the dam began in 1904, and it became operational in 1909, during the American colonial era, to provide the water needs for Manila.[4][5][6]
During World War II, Wawa Dam became the focal point of the battle between the US Army's XI Corps and the Imperial Japanese Army's Shimbu Group. The engagement, also known as the Battle of Wawa Dam saw the opposing sides in a seesaw battle along the Montalban-Antipolo hills from March to May 1945.
Wawa Dam used to be the only source of water for Manila until Angat Dam was built and Wawa was abandoned in 1968.[7] Due to insufficiency of water supply for Metro Manila, there was a strong clamor to reuse the dam.[8] The dam and surrounding area is currently protected as part of the Pamitinan Protected Landscape.
The dam is also part of an urban legend called the "River Dam Lady", where Pandora, the soul of a woman who drowned there, drowns people, with firstborn males said to be the usual targets.
^Philippine Commission (1912). "Annual Reports of the U.S. War Department 1912, Vol. IV". Government Printing Office, Washington.
^"Final List of Watersheds Supporting 140 River Irrigation Systems of the NIA" Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, pg. 5. Green Army Network. Retrieved on August 15, 2012.
^"Wawa Gorge". Google Maps. Retrieved on August 15, 2012.
^Layug, Benjamin (September 13, 2018). "Legend, history and adventure converge in Wawa | Benjamin Layug". BusinessMirror. Business Mirror. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
^Philippine Commission (1908) "Report of the Philippine Commission to the Secretary of War 1908, Part 1". Government Printing Office, Washington.
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