Peru Water Tunnel Project
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Peru water tunnel project. Odebrecht begins water transfer to northern peru. Palacios is the director of the olmos irrigation project an ambitious and until it starts in 2014 unproven vision with a 500 million price tag. Two thousand meters under the andean range south americas deepest aqueduct carries water that will.
It will be completed by years end and will irrigate approximately 150000 hectares of land 375000 acres and generate up to 600 mw of electricity. The water was transferred via the trans andean tunnel for the first time on february 21 after the autonomous water authority aaa delivered the licenses. 19 aug 2017 getting fresh water to perus desert capital is no easy task.
The olmos trans andean tunnel has been more than 100 years in the making with several attempts made in the 1950s using drill and blast techniques. The tunnel more than 20 km 12 mi long in total transfers water from the huancabamba river on the eastern side of the andes to drought ridden areas on the pacific ocean watershed via a tunnel bored through the continental divide. Major tunnel project below andes to provide irrigation to southern desert area november 10 2017 fruit could soon be grown in a desert area in southern peru covering nearly 40000 hectares thanks to a huge tunnel due to be constructed below the andes mountain range.
When completed the project will help produce 4000 gigawatt hours of electricity per year and transfer water from the cajamarca region west to lambayeque near olmos for the reclamation and irrigation of 43500 hectares of farmland. It has included drilling a 12 mile tunnel. The greatest feature and engineering challenge of.
A massive engineering project is underway in peru to divert water from east of the andes to irrigate crops in the countrys arid west. The limon dam part of the olmos transandino project is an under construction multi purpose concrete face rock fill embankment dam on the huancabamba river in northwestern peru located to the south of guabal. The tunnel is part of the olmos tinajones hydroelectric irrigation project and will divert water from the huancabamba river of perus cajamarca region to the neighboring region of lambayeque.
Lima relies on a vast network of concrete tunnels to transport water originating in lakes in the andes mountains to the. Palacios is the director of the olmos irrigation project an ambitious and until it starts in 2014 unproven vision with a 500 million price tag.