The Segura basin (CHS) has initiated the construction of a pass circuit will allow provisionally restore the water supply through the main channel of the left bank of the Tagus-Segura postrasvase, which has been interrupted since the early last week by a landslide that has collapsed a tunnel of this infrastructure under Ulea saw.
To save the shipping channel blockade is to build an alternative diversion of about 500 meters long that will pump water from the river Segura to the aqueduct, once the damaged tunnel Ulea.
The extracted water of the river from the dam will boost the Gorgo (Ulea) by two bombs of 630 kw each, which are currently in other facilities of the CHS and already are being removed to his impending transfer.
The pass circuit will save a drop of about 30 meters from the river Segura and the shipping channel and drive the water through two pipes of 1,200 mm in diameter, which pass through lands whose assignment has been processed and the Guildhall Ulea as announced today the mayor of the town, Victor Manuel Lopez, the CHS, during a meeting at the headquarters of the basin organization.
The tunnel of the Tajo-Segura failed, located in the municipality of Ulea downstream of the weir of eyes, has a length of 3.4 kilometers and five meters in diameter, and is the start of the main channel of the left bank of postrasvase Tajo-Segura.
Source: CHS