Amata

Particulars

Owner: unknown

Designer: Comisión Federal de Electricidad

Contractor: Desarrollo Canoras/Inmobiliaria Canoras JV

Purpose(s): Irrigation

Reservoir capacity: 14 m³x10⁶

Height: 30 metres

Length: 218 metres

Volume of RCC: 42 m³x10³

Total volume: 60 m³x10³

Start of Project: 11/03 (November 2003)

Start of RCC: 11/04 (November 2004)

End of RCC: 04/05 (April 2005)

End of Project: 06/05 (June 2005)

Country: Mexico

DMS Co-ordinates: 24˚30'39.73"N, 106˚55'29.76"W

DD Co-ordinates: 24.511036, -106.924934

Slope	Type
Vertical	RCC against precast concrete panels with geomembrane
1.00

Slope	Type
1.00	RCC against formwork [stepped face]

Slope	Type
1.00	Reinforced conventional concrete cast after RCC placement

Layers (mm)	Lifts (mm)
300	300

Cement (kg/m³)
120

Pozzolan (kg/m³)	Pozzolan Type
0	No pozzolan used -