Pinalito

Particulars

Owner: unknown

Designer: PCE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Contractor: Constructora Norberto Odebrecht, Brazil

Purpose(s): Hydropower

Reservoir capacity: 4 m³x10⁶

Height: 52 metres

Length: 210 metres

Volume of RCC: 73 m³x10³

Total volume: 100 m³x10³

Start of Project: 09/04 (September 2004)

Start of RCC: 11/05 (November 2005)

End of RCC: 03/07 (March 2007)

End of Project: —/08 (— 2008)

River: Tireo

DMS Co-ordinates: 18˚54'59.05"N, 70˚37'32.53"W

DD Co-ordinates: 18.916403, -70.625702

Slope	Type
Vertical	Traditional concrete against formwork

Slope	Type
0.80	Traditional concrete against formwork [stepped face]

Slope	Type
0.80	Reinforced conventional concrete cast after RCC placement

Layers (mm)	Lifts (mm)
300	300

Cement (kg/m³)
98

Pozzolan (kg/m³)	Pozzolan Type
8	Natural pozzolan (ASTM Class N)