Monterrey, NL. The CEO of the National Water Comission, Germán Martínez Santoyo, made a supervision visit to the construction of the Libertad dam, which is located in the limits of Montemorelos and Linares. The estimated date to complete the work will be in December of this year.
“We made a supervision visit to the works that are being carried out in Linares with federal and state budget and that should be completed in December,” the official commented on his Twitter account.
He assured that the federal government will continue to support Monterey to face the crisis that he experienced in 2022 due to a deficit of surface water.
As will be recalled in February, the state government declared that the three dams in the state were running out of Water.
However, the most difficult moment of the water crisis in the state it was lived on June 19 when the doctorate that goes from the El Cuchillo dam to the Metropolitan area of Monterrey was broken, leaving a supply of 6,000 liters per second, when the demand is greater than 16,000 liters per second.
The Dam The Knife It is among the 10 largest reservoirs in the North of the country, with a capacity to store 1,123 million cubic meters. In February 2022 it had 603.8 million cubic meters, that is, it was 53.77% filled.
However, when the Cerro Prieto and La Boca dams dried up, due to the lack of rain, El Cuchillo dropped to 46.39% in the month of June and with the aforementioned leak it was 39.80% filled.
Germán Martinez said in another tweet that Liberty Dam It is part of the comprehensive plan of the government of Mexico so that the Metropolitan area of Monterrey has sufficient infrastructure to store and supply surface drinking water to the population of this important region of the country.”
It is worth mentioning that in the expenditure budget for 2023, the government of Nuevo Leon It estimated resources of 2,178 million pesos for the construction of the El Cuchillo II Aqueduct and 1,118 million pesos for the Libertad Dam.
