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- Comptrollers Office indicates that the situation affects 660 families in the towns of Huamburque and El PorvenirApurimac.- The Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR) reported to the Provincial Municipality of Chincheros various irregularities in the preparation and updating of the technical file of the sanitation project for the population centers of Huamburque and El Porvenir, a work that with a budget of S/ 11,840,171 was intended to benefit 660 families, but which due to the deficiencies detected has been abandoned since December 2025.
The project consisted of the improvement and expansion of the drinking water system, the installation of the sewage system and a wastewater treatment plant.
In the Subsequent Official Action Report No. 019-2026-2-2681-AOP, developed from April 24 to May 18, 2026, it is noted that the municipality granted the contract and signed a contract with a consortium for the reformulation and updating of the technical file for an amount of S/ 148,437. The document was approved in May 2022 despite the fact that it had important deficiencies.
The Comptrollers Office showed that the construction consultant made a serious error by ignoring the terms of reference of his own contract by not recording the real number of beneficiary population, leaving 137 families that needed water and drainage out of the project. This oversight was noticed by the community members themselves in 2024.
Worse still, the work did not have serious environmental studies, because they assured that the impact on groundwater would be minimal because the water table was more than four meters deep; without any specialist verifying that the land where the treatment plant would be built contained springs of clean water that supply the entire community.
The situation became evident when, during the execution of the work, two water sources were found very close to the future Wastewater Treatment Plant in the El Porvenir sector. This discovery raised environmental alarms about the risk of contamination and the residents themselves and their authorities demanded the stoppage of the work, fearing that their springs would end up contaminated with wastewater.
Although these events were officially recorded by those responsible in the work log in November 2024; Neither the municipality nor the contractor have provided a solution until today, leaving the work completely abandoned and the families still without a response.
The subsequent ex officio action report was notified to the Chincheros mayors office so that it could adopt the actions, within the scope of its powers, to address or overcome the events with indications of irregularities and, if applicable, arrange for the demarcation of responsibilities. The document is available in the Control Service Report Search.
Apurimac, June 11, 2026
Communications Management
PRESS RELEASE Ndeg 592-2026-CG/GCOM
