• Submitted by: Luis Manuel Mazorra
• Business and Economy
• 03 / 08 / 2012

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It was concluded Lebrije repair the dam located in Sancti Spiritus, which took more than ten years failed in its shade. This project also included construction of a new spillway.

The newspaper Escambray Spiritus, in digital, reports that already started moving earth, by a brigade of Achievement Steering Group of Companies, and then blow the dam spillway of the second spillway to ensure the overall safety of the dam.

In this last phase, the rotary-intervene requires builders territory, who also laborarán a 800-meter road linking the bridge over the spillway with this work first and the road to Jatibonico, municipality where the reservoir is located.

Manuel Diaz Riverol, deputy representative of the Water Resources Investment, told AIN said before that in 2010 and 2011 in four wells were completed Lebrije relief, a bridge that provides access to curtain in the event of disruption and a vial of exploitation.

For on completion of construction tasks, the reservoir that supplies water to the population of Jatibonico and various agricultural crops, will be able to receive 82 million cubic meters of water for which it was designed, he said.

Since June 2002, when heavy rains occurred in this region damaged the curtain of the dam and forced the evacuation of thousands of people, prevention remains Lebrije hydrology.

The province of Sancti Spiritus, the largest water storage capacity in Cuba, has nine dams that can hold together a thousand 200 million cubic meters.