Saturday, January 10, 2015
Chilefarms, Nogales, Chile
The excavators have spent the past six days enlarging the major farm reservoir (tranque). By Saturday morning, their work is complete.
Heavy equipment operators check facts and figures with Ricardo and farm manager José Pablo
Tomorrow, water held in reservoirs in Los Andes to the north will be released into the Aconcagua River. As the river meanders through this valley, it will flow into a myriad of smaller canals throughout the valley providing farms with water to irrigate their crops. The water release is a weekly event, begins Sunday and continues for between 24 and 36 hours.
Ricardo says he pays an annual fee to the local water agency to access water as one of these canals passes through Chilefarms.
The new portal into the canal was finished Thursday. Don Pedro will lift the gate into the reservoir when the canal begins to fill tomorrow around noon.
By tomorrow afternoon, the canal bed that runs through Chilefarms, now bone dry, will be filled with water.
Saturday night, Susaan surveys the new reservoir (tranque). Tomorrow is a major test of the new reservoir and the newly constructed gateway into it (visible in the reservoir bank at right of photo above).
Photos by Paul A. Tamburello, Jr.
Didn't know you possessed supervisory engineer credentials. Must be paying you quite the sum to have traveled such a long distance. Maybe I should have contacted you to oversee my pool construction which took months longer than estimated.
Posted by: Jeff | January 15, 2015 at 02:38 PM
Well room and board is a princely sum for me. The only credential i have is curiosity. Luckily my hosts Ricardo and Susaan have lots of answers. If i built your pool the way Chilean government constructs roadways, it would last into the next century!
Posted by: Paul A. Tamburello, Jr. aka pt at large | January 15, 2015 at 04:09 PM
Looking good!
Posted by: Gerard M. McMahon | January 15, 2015 at 04:18 PM