I Part. Project for the Atazar Canal

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  • Emilio López de Berges y de los Santos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/ic.1967.v19.i188.4097

Abstract


The Atazar Canal helps to supply Madrid with water, from the rivers Lozoya, Jarama and Sorbe. The section which operates at present starts at the Torrelaguna dam and finishes at the El Goloso reservoir. Later a further section will be added, from the Atazar dam, on the Lozoya river, to link up with the control dam at Torrelaguna. The canal capacity is 16 m3/sec, and it is 43.47 km long. It has a slope of 4/10.000. The cross section is similar to that of the Jarama canal, already built. There are interconnections between this canal and the Canal Alto, which previously supplied the high and medium part of Madrid. To overcome the ground unevenness 5 syphons have been built, the most important of which is the Colmenar Goloso syphon, which is 10.88 km in length. Construction commenced on December 10, 1962, and water reached Madrid on June 15th, 1966. The initial budget for this project was 1,500 million pesetas.

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Published

1967-03-31

How to Cite

López de Berges y de los Santos, E. (1967). I Part. Project for the Atazar Canal. Informes De La Construcción, 19(188), 93–111. https://doi.org/10.3989/ic.1967.v19.i188.4097

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