Lake Chapala to benefit as work starts on new dam
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- Published on Friday, 07 June 2013 15:41
- Written by Michael Forbes
Jalisco Governor Aristoteles Sandoval and National Water Commission (CNA) Director David Korenfeld signed an agreement Thursday to construct the Purgatorio Dam on the Verde River, a project that could eventually satisfy almost two-thirds of thirsty metro-area Guadalajara’s potable water needs.
Located midway between Ixtlahuacan del Rio and Zapotlanejo, the 30-meter curtain dam will have a capacity to hold 3.5 million cubic meters of water. The estimated cost of the dam and its corresponding hydraulic pumping system is 6.8 billion pesos (85 million dollars) and it has a targeted finishing date of 2016. The state government has agreed to provide 50 percent of the funding of the dam.
The cost is around one-third of the cost of the project Purgatorio has replaced: the polemic Arcediano Dam that was planned for the Santiago River (just after its convergence with the Verde) to the north of Guadalajara. This project was shelved in 2009.
Purgatorio was first suggested in 1992 and rejected because business leaders believed it would cost way too much to pump water from the dam some 15 miles to the metropolitan area of Guadalajara.
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