Urgent interventions to allow irrigation of 16000 hectares of cultivation following the 2005 drought problem
Customer:
Spanish Government (by Bombas Ercole Marelli)
Place:
Aragon (Huesca), Spain
Year:
2005
Description of works:
- no. 24 electric-pumps (+3 as reserve) each with capacity 1000 l/s, head 3 m, power 55 kW
Nominal characteristics
Total plants capacity: 27000 l/s - 27 mc/s
Head: 3 m
Total installed power: 1485 kW
Particular notes
The supply of the electric pumps constituted an urgency, to face the Spanish water crisis of 2005. Through a series of pumping stations in series, the course of a river was inverted with the aim of guaranteeing the irrigation supply for the upstream
areas.
