Alqueva: Despite the heavy rain, the largest reservoir of Europe away from full filling.


The rain that has fallen in the last days, motivated by depression “Elsa”, It is far from lead to Alqueva, the largest reservoir of Europe, stay away from full filling.

Despite the bad weather that has plagued Portugal in the last 48 hours, in the face of depression "Elsa", the Alentejo region is one where it has been raining less what makes the Bayou Alqueva Dam, Europe's largest, is far from able to achieve maximum filling capacity.

According to the updated data for Lidador News (LN) the Enterprise Development and Infrastructure of Alqueva (EDIA), to 09,00 hours of Friday had a filling quota 145,33 meters and a volume of water stored 2.754,01 hectometres (hm3), far from the maximum capacity has been reached for the first time in 12 January 2010.

According to the data of EDIA, the Alqueva water storage capacity is 4.150 hm 3, which corresponds to the level of full quota of 152 meters. in the last 48 hours, since depression "Elsa" began to plague the country, the quota rose in Alqueva 21 cm and stored 5,37 hectometres.

Font edia told LN that "the Guadiana Basin is one where less has been raining, hence it is not expected the Alqueva filling ", adding that "the land is now flooded and when the water begins to drain, You can reach the reservoir. Also on the side of Spain it has not rained and there is no opening of dams or reservoirs ", finished.

The last time the Alqueva dam filled in the fullness was in early 2014, but not having done edia discharges into the bed of the River Guadiana. The last did that this happened was in 2013, when they were dumped thousands of cubic hectometres of water for the "Grande do Sul Rio".

To better understand the little that has been raining in Alentejo, enough to see that among 17 and 19 December the accumulated rainfall is 19.2 mm, rain fell mainly during the day Thursday. In the accumulated of weeks between 11 and 17 December and 13 and 19 of the month, the difference is 26,8 mm.

Also on Dam Pedrogão, located on the river Guadiana, Vidigueira the municipality and performs the counter-dam function alqueva, which enables the hydroelectric plant can operate reversibly, the total filling scenario is also a mirage.

With a storage capacity of 106 hectometres, It is with a volume of 91,49 hm3 and its current quota is filling 83,85 meters to a maximum of 84,8 meters.

Teixeira Correia

(journalist)


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