Monterrey, NL. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, accompanied by the governor of Nuevo León, Samuel García Sepúlveda, supervised the progress of the work on the El Cuchillo II dam aqueductand it is expected that the first stage will be ready in June and conclude in August or September of this year.
“We are making progress, and according to the opinion of the technicians and the companies, we are going to be able to finish a first stage (of the aqueduct) by June, which will allow us to face a possible water shortage in the urban area and two or three months later the work would finish,” López Obrador said this Saturday.
“We are also evaluating the work on the Libertad Dam, so that this year the problem of water supply will be solved, not for one or two years, but for 8 to 10 years in the future, they are already working on a project to medium and long term for the water supply”, assured the federal president.
He aqueduct It will provide an additional 5,000 liters of water per second to the Monterrey metropolitan area, and consists of building 100 kilometers of 84-inch steel pipe.
As will be remembered, on May 15, 2022, Governor Samuel García announced the Master Plan to Guarantee Nuevo León’s Water until 2050in which the construction of the El Cuchillo II dam aqueductdue to the water crisis that was experienced in the state, due to the lack of water.
In September 2022, the construction of the second El Cuchillo dam aqueductlocated 120 kilometers east of Monterrey.
The estimated investment for the construction of the aforementioned aqueduct amounts to 15,700 million pesos, in which the federal and state governments and possibly the municipalities will participate; and will leave a spill of 30,458 million pesos, detailed in August 2022, Roberto Macías Quintanilla, president of the Mexican Chamber of the Construction Industry (CMIC), Nuevo León delegation.
In the supervision carried out in the pumping plant number 4, were present Juan Ignacio Barragán, director of Water and Drainage of Monterrey; Germán Arturo Martínez Santoyo, general director of the National Water Commission (With water).
As well as Luis Carlos Alatorre Cejudo, general director of the Rio Bravo Basin Organization; Máximo Vedoya, CEO Global Ternium and president of Caintra Nuevo León; federal and state officials and businessmen.
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