Village dams are to 90% its capacity.

AN ESTIMATED VOLUME STORED 9.700.000 CUBIC METERS.

The Community of Irrigators of La Aldea de San Nicolás estimated ninety percent, approximately, water reserves available in the reservoirs of the Girl Caidero, The Parralillo or Siberio, which equates to a 275.000 hours of water.

Before the imminent start of the present harvest, water reserves Village guarantee the availability of the liquid component of the present campaign, after having consumed just over ten percent of the capacity of the dams in the previous season.

Was late last January when the three dams overflowed due to the contribution of the winter rains, In addition, He allowed the recovery of underground aquifers and sea arrival at a flow rate He had filled another dam.

President of the Community of Irrigators, Juan José de el Pino, drew Agroaldea What “He is having had the fourth dam, Jump of the Dog, it also would have brimmed, but we also regret that have not been executed buildups of dams Siberio and Parralillo”.

Salto dam of the dog is the only work of its kind that the Island Water Council is planning to implement in its program of waterworks. However, “Thirteen years after the formalities and procedures were initiated for construction, We recently got: inclusion in the budget of the Convention with the State Hydraulic Works, also within the Water Infrastructure Plan de Canarias, but what is its implementation has not yet been achieved”, Del Pino said.

The Community of Irrigators of La Aldea de San Nicolás is immersed in the work of try to get reduce losses to the minimum possible. It is clear that against evaporation effect that occurs in dams is impossible to do anything, but what can be done in pipes and ducts is primary objective, He explained the President.

Juan Jose Pino reported that the cheapest water in the Canary Islands is managed by the Community of Irrigators of La Aldea de San Nicolás, because on the price of the same single management and administration gravel.