Vaca

Particulars

Owner: unknown

Designer: Gilbert-Green & Associates Inc., Canada

Contractor: SinoHydro Corporation (11th Construction Bureau)

Purpose(s): Hydropower

Reservoir capacity: 12 m³x10⁶

Height: 70 metres

Length: 225 metres

Volume of RCC: 200 m³x10³

Total volume: 220 m³x10³

Start of Project: 02/07 (February 2007)

Start of RCC: 02/08 (February 2008)

End of RCC: 10/09 (October 2009)

End of Project: 12/11 (December 2011)

Country: Belize

River: Marcal

DMS Co-ordinates: 17˚01'7.81"N, 89˚03'24.62"W

DD Co-ordinates: 17.018835, -89.056839

Slope	Type
0.20	Traditional concrete against formwork

Slope	Type
0.75	RCC against formwork (GEVR/GE-RCC) [stepped face]

Slope	Type
0.75	Reinforced conventional concrete cast after RCC placement

Layers (mm)	Lifts (mm)
300	3000

Cement (kg/m³)
94

Pozzolan (kg/m³)	Pozzolan Type
31	Low-lime flyash (ASTM Class F)