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- Control commission also detected heavy machinery that is paralyzed due to lack of driversThe Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR) alerted the National Water Authority (ANA) of the risk of erosion of the material used in the cleaning and clearing of certain areas of the Tumbes River, which are in charge of the Local Water Authority (ALA) of Tumbes, as well as the risk of overflows due to a series of deficiencies in said works due to the occurrence of an increase in the rivers flow due to extreme hydrometeorological phenomena, such as the arrival of the El Nino phenomenon.
According to the Control Visit Report No. 003-2026-OCI/5740-SVC, whose evaluation period was from February 13 to 20, 2026, five interventions are scheduled to be carried out in the Tumbes region, of which one corresponds to the work of cleaning, clearing and forming a dam with rockfill on the left bank of the Tumbes River, located in the Pechichal sector in the district of San Jacinto, in the province of Tumbes.
The works were going to have an extension of 2.80 kilometers, with an investment of S/ 6,519,503.08 and a completion period of two months and one week. However, the control commission determined, after carrying out a field visit, that the cleaning, clearing and formation of the dike with rockfill work is not being carried out according to the corresponding reference sheet (FTR-CB-PREV Ndeg 01026-2025-ANA-AAA.JZ-ALA.T).
The auditors verified that in the intervened sector there was a dike with pre-existing rockfill that was not noted in the preparation of the reference sheet and on it loan material is being placed on the slopes, which is being profiled with an excavator, while the loan material on the crown is compacted with the passage of the machinery, which does not correspond to the formation of a dike.
Another alerted fact is that the formation of the aforementioned dam, according to the schedule of activities, was to be completed on February 12, 2026; but, on the date of the visit (February 16) it was still pending to complete 380 linear meters and execute another 800 linear meters, giving a total of 1.18 kilometers.
Paralyzed machinery
The Comptrollers report indicates that the ALA Tumbes has six units of heavy machinery, three dump trucks and three front-end loaders, which are paralyzed due to the lack of personnel hired for their operation. For this reason, the control commission was able to show that they are stored in the facilities of the Tumpis Experimental Center. In addition, in the aforementioned experimental center, a tanker truck was verified for clearing and cleaning activities that does not have complete documentation.
Said machinery was to be used in the cleaning, clearing and formation of banks (curtains of compacted earth to capture rainwater) with material from the bed of the Tumbes River in the La Inverna sector, in the Pampas de Hospital district of the province of Tumbes.
The control commission warns that the Tumbes River has a considerable flow that can even increase due to extreme hydrometeorological phenomena, such as El Nino, and that there is no necessary personnel to operate the dump trucks and heavy machinery available, which makes cleaning and clearing the Tumbes River channel impossible to date.
For this reason, the Comptrollers Office considers it necessary for the ANA to evaluate the actions to be carried out so that the river does not overflow and cause flooding on the right bank towards the Pampas sector of the Hospital, affecting the population and agricultural land located in critical areas of the Tumbes River.
Lima, March 13, 2026
Communications Management
PRESS RELEASE Ndeg 253-2026-CG/GCOM
