DALUPIRIP POBLACION, ITOGON, BENGUET. At left, a postcard-perfect scene of the Agno River as it winds through the hills of Itogon, Benguet before exiting to the Pangasinan lowlands. The main village of barangay Dalupirip, as well as still extensive ricefields and gardens, can be seen on the flood valley.

The San Roque Dam has not physically displaced the community itself, but hundreds of peasants are bound to lose their sources of livelihood such as gold panning, fishing grounds, pastureland, orchards and ricefields, as these will soon be inundated by the dam reservoir's waters and buried in silt due to the sediment-control checks dams built along the Agno River and its tributaries.