| Work Detail |
With the diversion of the San Juan River, the construction of the Tambolar Dam begins. To give rise to the works of the dam it was necessary to divert the runoff of the river, to dry the place where the hydroelectric complex will settle. The commencement of the first stage of construction of the El Tambolar Hydroelectric Complex took place with the diversion of the waters of the San Juan River, a work that is being carried out within the framework of the Multipurpose Energy Utilization Plan undertaken by the Province. The El Tambolar Hydropower Project is located on the San Juan River, near the town of Pachaco, 18.8 kilometers upstream from the Los Caracoles dam, and promises to make the most of the flow, adding 70 new megawatts to the Province and the National Interconnected System, among other benefits. Continuing, Uñac added that the bidding for the project was achieved with a “super competitive price; It is one of the best-priced works in the entire national context, with few being developed. Also to value what has meant from that moment to date what has been traveled, what has been built, to be able to reach this important day, ”he reflected. During his speech, he highlighted the joint work with the EPSE and the effort of all workers to overcome the challenges that allowed today to start one of the most important milestones in provincial infrastructure. More about the project El Tambolar Multipurpose Development is a mega-hydraulic project that will enable the creation of new jobs, services, more reservoir capacity to manage our most precious asset and more energy for approximately one hundred thousand family homes. In turn, it will also allow increasing the degree of regulation of the San Juan River; it will reduce the increasing risks of droughts and floods associated with the increased uncertainty arising from global climate change; it will expand the cultivated area and improve the productivity of the land that is currently in production through stored water. The future dam will also create new jobs during its second construction phase and will generate jobs during its operations phase through the incorporation of recreational and tourism-related activities. This first stage of the work, imposing due to its characteristics, will have 2 independent tunnels with a portal section 6.40 meters x 6.80 meters and 6.00 meters x 6.00 meters in diameter with entrances at different elevations, a dam and a reservoir with a total reservoir volume of 605,000 million liters , spillway, main organ for the evacuation of surpluses from the dam, spillway of 111.60 meters, power house, turbines, generators of 41.20 (MVA) of power, 2 transformers of 42 (MVA) of power, transformer station and high voltage line in 132 kV that will allow to inject the generated energy to the Argentine Interconnected System, as some of the samples of the high technology applied to the complex. |
