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This dam is located in the municipality of Villalba, like
two miles to the south of that town, immediately waters
above of Guayabal Reservoir. Highway PR-150, between
Villalba and Coamo, happens over the structure. The capacity
of dam of this dam is of 55,888 acre-feet at the level of
541 feet SNPM. It has approximately four miles in length and
150 feet of maximum depth. It has a drainage area of only
21.94 miles square.
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The
construction of Toa Vaca Dam was completed in the 1972. Same
the most important link of a development of multiple uses
for the optimal use of waters of run-off of the Coamo, Toa
Vaca and Jacaguas rivers in the south and those of the
heights of the rivers Manatí and Arecibo, to the north of
the Divisoria. Due to that, this dam and dams was
constructed with capacity much greater than the necessary
one for its drainage area. From his construction in the
1972, never it has arrived at the overflowing level (541
feet). Recently it reached the highest elevation to than it
has never arrived (530 feet). |
