I should like to share with you an interesting video, about a Reservoir, in the North of Spain. I think it is one of the best things made by Franco, because, thanks to the Reservoirs, we can drink water, when there is drought in Spain, and we can irrigate our fields, every year. If you want to watch this video, please click on the link below:
http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/espana-a-ras-de-cielo/espana-ras-cielo-presa-grado/2067170/
Voice in off (Francis Lorenzo, the presenter of the program “Spain from sky”): “Our adventure continues 50 km, downstream, in the reservoir of El Grado, where the blue color of the Zinca becomes more intense ...... When it was built, more than forty years ago, it was intended to change the lives of the inhabitants of the Alto Aragon”
Voice in off (in the NO-DO): “The Minister reaches the head of the reservoir of El Grado, who, with the Medium one, immediately upstream, is scheduled for the regulation of hydrahulic resources of the Zinca. From the twenty-five km, which will take the Channel of the Zinca, are already completed the first five. From it, 8 ditches, that irrigate 12,000 hectares, are derived, which, together with other sections, add up to more than one hundred thousand”
Francis: “The construction of this dam spent over 11 years; to find out more about this work, we will meet Ramón Latorre, a man who worked in its construction”
Ramon Latorre (Practical Technician): “As the dam progressed, more people came to work, there were more jobs ... ..., it came a time --I think it was the summer of 66--, when it was made concrete during 24 hours, ie there were three shifts of people, working 24 hours .... And that was when more work there was… , because I am reckoning that we were around 1000 persons, working here. The Alto Aragon was an area of dry land, with very little rainfall, crops were bad and what it intended, and it has been achieved, it is to transform a semi-desert area into a fertile and irrigation area. Right now, they are dominating and irrigating 150,000 hectares”
Francis: “Thanks to this work of Engineering, today you can irrigate almost all of the province of Huesca, where now fruits and vegetables are grown”
Well, I hope that you have liked this post.
Until my next post, kind regards,
Luis.
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