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LA PLATA DAM

 

 

LOCATION AND DESCRIPTION


This dam this located like a three miles to the south of the town of Toa Alta. It is arrived at the same one by Highway PR-167 from Bayamón. The Lake is formed by a concrete dam of 131 feet of height on the La Plata River. Its normal capacity is 33,000 acre feet with the closed floodgates. The Lake covers an area with 820 acres. At the moment the Lake has maximum depths of around 100 feet and one length of seven miles.

 

USE AND HISTORY

The dam that forms the dam was constructed in the 1974 for the Puerto Rico Sewer and Water Supply Authority by the company Citra-Dep of Spie Batignolles. The water that nourishes this lake catches in a river basin of 186 miles square. The waters of the Lake are used solely for domestic consumption of the metropolitan area.

   
   
   

 

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