📋 Tender Overview
On Thursday, June 19 of this year, the Puna Laqueque Community will sign the purchase and sale of the land with the Peblt - MidagriThe Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri), through the Special Binational Project Lago Titicaca (PEBLT), will close a fundamental stage for the construction of the Huacchani dam: the physical-legal sanitation of the land necessary for its execution. This process will culminate on June 19 with the subscription of the minutes and the purchase authorization in the community of Puna Laqueque, located in the district of whose whose province of Sandia.
The Executive Director of Peblt, Guido Antonio Villanueva Zuniga, informed that this action is part of the project: Recovery of the middle and low basin of the Rio Grande, affected by mining pollution in the department of Puno, which contemplates as one of its main components the construction of the Huacchani dam, in addition to other environmental remediation actions. The budget for these interventions exceeds 100 million soles.
As part of the sanitation process, the PEBLT has already completed the acquisition of nine lands in the communities of Picotani, Puna Ayllu, Canu Canu, as well as properties belonging to families in the area. The last purchase will be made in the community of Puna Laqueque, which will complete the acquisition of the total required land, which together total more than 614 thousand hectares.
Once this stage is finished, the elaboration of the technical file will begin, a step prior to the execution of the project, whose main objective is to mitigate the impact of mining pollution in the Ramis and large rivers basins.
The director of the Peblt, Guido Antonio Villanueva, reiterated his commitment to continue promoting remediation projects in the areas affected by mining, as well as the prompt construction of the Huacchani dam, a key infrastructure for the environmental recovery of the Puno region.
