Hydraulics
LOS NOGALES
CÓRDOBA
Los Nogales is a buttress dam on the Jesús María river designed for underground river flow storage and utilization.
The power obtained through the installation of two vertical axis Francis type urbines was 130 MW
PROJECT
Los Nogales buttress dam, Jesus Maria.
CLIENT
Dirección Provincial de Hidráulica del Ministerio de Obras Públicas de la Provincia de Córdoba
DESCRIPTION OF WORKS
Building a buttress screen (buttress dam) on the Jesus Maria river, for lifting and exploiting underground water flow for the irrigation of 10,000 hectares in the area of Colonia Caroya.
The waters of the Jesús María river, near the confluence of the Ascochinga and Santa Catalina rivers, seep through the groundwater table, forming an underground river
The Provincial Water Directorate of the Ministry of Public Works of the Province of Córdoba, designed this project which aimed to build a non-permeable screen near Los Nogales, near the City of Jesús María to prevent groundwater run-off and allow for this to be captured and stored in a reservoir.
The screen was built by consolidating and waterproofing the flood barriers, including cement materials and waterproofing elements inserted using medium and high pressure injection techniques.
