📋 Tender Overview
Regional Government and the PECH are working on the construction of structures that protect the mother canalTo ensure drinking water service to around 600 thousand inhabitants of the population of Trujillo and its districts, which are supplied with water resources from the Drinking Water Treatment Plant (PTAP), a facility managed by the CHAVIMOCHIC Special Project (PECH), the La Libertad Regional Government, through PECH, is advancing with the construction of 7 canoes that are located along the vulnerable areas of the CHAVIMOCHIC Mother Canal. These areas were affected by past weather events and affected water production in our PTAP, stated the PECH manager.
These works have been carried out at the express direction of the La Libertad Regional Government, who have indicated that all preventive measures be taken in the face of the announced rains, and that they serve to mitigate the effects or possible damage that could be caused by landslides or runoff to the Chavimochic mother canal, the structure that carries water from the Santa River to the PTAP, the official added.
The investment in the construction of the 7 canoes amounts to the sum of 7.4 million soles, and as recalled in the events of 2017 and 2023, these structures did not exist that will now prevent runoff or landslides from filling the mother canal, therefore leaving the PTAP without the supply of raw water, which is the facility that subjects it to physical and chemical processes and delivers it to the city of Trujillo completely. purified, suitable for human consumption.
ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION WAS NORMALIZED IN VIRU
After the Viru hydroelectric plant, located in the San Jose Camp (Viu), suffered a mishap, specialized technical personnel from the PECH started up one of the affected turbines and is now generating 1.2 MW, adding to the national interconnected system, they have managed to restore electrical service to the 1,591 users of the PECH. Prioritization is being given to meeting the energy demand of the population and we are rationalizing the companies in the area, stated the PECH manager. He indicated that they are close to putting another of the affected turbines into operation.
