Itaipu Expands Water Flow After Rain and Monitors Areas Near the River Paraná
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Itaipu Vertedour releases water volume 7 times higher than the average flow of the Falls Itaipu Hydroelectric Plant, in Foz do Iguaçu, in western Paraná, is releasing about 10.7 million litres of water per second, volume equivalent to seven times the average flow of the Iguaçu Falls. According to Itaipu Binational, six canisters remain open to control the level of the reservoir after the heavy rains that have reached the region. ☰ Follow the G1 …
The rains higher than expected in the contributing basins raised the level of the river and led to the opening of a second channel of the dam landfill. In Ciudad del Este, some 170 families from the San Rafael neighborhood were already evacuated, while emergency teams maintain monitoring in the coastal areas.
Intense rains raise the level of the Paraná River and Itaipu widens the discharge of the landfill. Civil Defense monitors areas of risk. Read in the Paraná Tribune.
Itaipu Binational opened the second (central) stream of landfill on Tuesday (13). In the morning, the flow was 10.7 million liters of water per second, the equivalent of only 17.2% of the maximum operating capacity of the landfill (62.2 million liters per second)
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