The Inumet assured that the rainfall has accumulated 92.8 mm and it is not ruled out that the flow will continue to increase.
The water crisis seems to finally give up with the Santa Lucía river, which managed to reach 100% of its capacity thanks to the heavy rains last week, from the Uruguayan Institute of Meteorology (Inumet) ensured that the accumulated Severine Pass is 81.6 mm, while that of St. Lucia 84.8mm.
Last week’s rainfall has accumulated 92.8 mm, a value that, according to the latest report on rainfall prospects for the Santa Lucia and Rio de la Plata basins from Inumet, managed to reach a value that reaches 100% of normal for this period, using as a reference the climatology of 1981-2010”.
“Specifically, on the Paso Severino dam it rained 81.6 mm and on Santa Lucía (near Aguas Corrientes) it rained 84.8 mm,” the report states, which also predicts that the rainfall of the last few hours will increase even more. plus the records of the basins.
Good news for water
According to the latest report of Presidency, that relieves this information from the declaration of the water emergency, the level of the main dam that supplies the capital and its surroundings reached 34,823,580 cubic meters, 4 million cubic meters more than the previous report.
On a day in which the daily consumption of the population was 508,985 cubic meters, all the pumping lines reached the records prior to the drought, being very far from the maximums allowed by the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) 720 mg/l for chlorides and 440 mg/l for sodium.
In this salinity improvement framework, pumping line 4 presented 13 mg/l of chloride and 10 mg/l of sodium, while line 5 presented 12 mg/l of chloride and 10 mg/l of sodium and line 6 exhibited 13 mg/l and 10 mg/l, respectively.
Source: Ambito
