LOÍZA DAM

This dam is also well-known popularly like Carraízo. This located within you limit of the San Antonio District of Caguas, the Jagua District de Gurabo and the Carraízo Districts and the Gloria de High Trujillo. It is arrived at the same one by highway PR-175 from Trujillo Alto or Caguas. Also by highway PR-941 of Gurabo. The Lake is formed by a concrete dam of 98 feet of height on the River Grande de Loíza. Its original capacity until the top of its 23,500 floodgates is of acre feet, covering an area with 713 acres. The normal surface of the Lake is on 134.95 feet on the level of the sea. The waters that catch come from a river basin of 207.6 miles square. The maximum depth is of some 60 feet and has eight miles in length.

The concrete dam with radial floodgates was constructed for the Authority of Aqueducts and Sewage systems between the 1952 and 1954. The waters of the dam are used for the domestic consumption of the metropolitan area. In the 1976 the height of the radial floodgates was increased 1.00 meter to reach the present elevation of the lake. Also three small floodgates settled to him type scale to be able to have the vegetation and floating sweepings. In the 2003 is finished the eight floodgates and controls rehabilitation.