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Urugua-i

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Urugua-i completed
Urugua-i completed

Particulars

Owner: unknown

Designer: Bechtel/Grupo Constructor (reviewed by ICONAS)

Contractor: Sideco American, SADE, IECSA and IMPSA J.V. (Grupo Constructor)

Statistics

Type: Gravity

Purpose(s): Hydropower

Reservoir capacity: 1175 m3x106

Height: 77 metres

Length: 687 metres

Volume of RCC: 590 m3x103

Total volume: 626 m3x103

Construction Dates

Start of Project: 10/85 (October 1985)

Start of RCC: 04/88 (April 1988)

End of RCC: 04/89 (April 1989)

End of Project: /89 ( 1989)

Country: Argentina

River: Urugua-i

DMS Co-ordinates: 25˚52'33.08"S, 54˚33'28.56"W

DD Co-ordinates: -25.875856, -54.557934

Facings

Upstream

SlopeType
VerticalTraditional concrete against precast concrete panels with geomembrane

Downstream

SlopeType
0.80Unformed face of RCC

Spillway

SlopeType
0.80Traditional concrete against formwork

Placement

Layers (mm)Lifts (mm)
400400

Cementitious material

Cement (kg/m3)
60
Pozzolan (kg/m3)Pozzolan Type
0No pozzolan used  -