Conagua confirms the beginning of the transfer of the El Cuchillo dam to the Marte R. Gómez dam

Monterrey, NL. At 12 noon this Sunday, November 27, the National Water Commission (With water) began the transfer of 200 million cubic meters from the dam The knife to the reservoir Martha. R. Gómez in Tamaulipas, a volume that guarantees drinking water for the Monterrey Metropolitan Area while supporting Irrigation District 026.

To the date, The knife It has a volume of 756,450 million cubic meters, with a storage capacity of 67.35%. With the transfer, there will be a storage of 556.45 million cubic meters, and a filling of 48.55% of the total reservoir, which is 1,123 million cubic meters.

It is worth mentioning that The knife is the largest dam New Lion and ranks 9th. Place among the largest reservoirs in the country, its daily average extraction is 5,000 cubic meters per second.

In turn, the prey Marta R. Gómez presented this morning a storage of 388.519 million cubic meters, that is to say that it is at 49.70% of a reservoir capacity of 781.70 million cubic meters, so with the transfer, the reservoir will store 75.28% of its capacity, according to to the data of the daily storage report of the National Water Commission.

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According to what was announced last Friday, November 24, by the general director of the Conagua, Germán A. Martínez Santoyo, this Sunday at 12 noon the Rio Bravo Basin Organization (OCRB) began the transfer of the El Cuchillo dam, located in the state of Nuevo León, on Marte R. Gómez, in Tamaulipas,” said the agency’s statement.

The former, after the Hydraulic Works Operation Technical Committee approved in its session 1570, on November 22, the transfer of a volume of 200 million cubic meters.

The director of the Rio Bravo Basin Organization, Luis Carlos Alatorre Cejudo, specified that after the transfer, the El Cuchillo dam will have a storage of 556 million cubic meters, which guarantees the supply of the metropolitan area and supports the irrigation district 026 Lower San Juan River.

However, “the correct administration of water in the La Boca and Cerro Prieto dams is crucial to sustain levels that allow prolonging its use until the rainfall that could occur in mid-2023,” warned Alatorre Cejudo.

In turn, the general director of the Tamaulipas State Water Commission, Raúl Quiroga Álvarez, commented to local media that 210 cubic meters of water per second are being sent to the Marte R. Gómez dam, for which the transfer of the 100% between 11 and 18 days.

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