miércoles, 11 de marzo de 2020

Alto Piura water and hydropower project is relaunched


After 2 years of paralysis, the Regional Government of Piura and the administration of the Alto Piura Irrigation and Hydropower Project (PEIHAP) have re-launched preparations to resume the work, which consists of irrigating 50,000 hectares, including new lands and improving irrigation. To do this, it will be transferred from the Huancabamba river (from the western slope) to the Rio Piura, on the Pacific side (coast). Alto Piura is one of the projects with the greatest momentum of the pending implementation, together with projects such as Chavimochic III, Majes - Siguas II and Chinecas (see post).
The project also includes the generation of up to 300 megawatts of electric power (with two hydroelectric plants: Gramadal and Cashapite), in addition to the construction of 4 reservoirs and all the irrigation infrastructure in the lower area of the Piura river, recalls a Gestión  note ( 9.3.20) and PEIHAP's own information. The project is located near the port of Bayovar, a natural outlet for the bioceanic corridors, such as the Brazil-Peru North Railway-Bioceanic Connection Project, promoted by the living forces of the northern and eastern regions Peruvians and the Brazilian states of Acre, Rondonia, Mato Groso, and Manaus. The Regional Government of Piura plans, in this perspective, to convert Bayovar into a megaport
Component I of the Project consists of the drilling of a 13-kilometer trans-Andean tunnel for water conduction (and the adjoining embrasure dam), the same that, already in an advance of almost 20%, started in 2016 and was suspended in 2018, when the contracted company Obrainsa - Astaldi fell into suspension of payments.
March 10, 2020

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