Project
Alto Aragon Irrigation System
- Client:
- Confederación Hidrográfica del Ebro
- Date:
- 2008-2010
- Location:
- Aragón, Spain
- Services:
- Planning and Consultancy
- Engineering Design
- Key disciplines:
- Water and Environment
- Flood Engineering
- Hydrology and Hydraulic
- Irrigation Systems
- Mechanical and Electrical
- O&M Manuals
- Open Canals
- Renewal and Upgrade
“Riegos del Alto Aragón” irrigation system, with its 175,000 hectares, is the largest irrigation scheme in the European Union. However, upon the centenary of its creation (1915), there are still issues remaining to be resolved. This study included an extensive compilation and thorough compendium of all works, studies and projects carried out in the Gállego-Cinca inter-basin area; Integrated Water Resources Management of the Gallego-Cinca inter-basin areas, covered area size = 14.230 km2. A series of proposals (for new infrastructures and management) have been made to resolve existing problems, setting out the origin, need and fitness as compared to other possibilities analysed in the past.
The project includes considerations of an energy and environmental nature. An operation simulation model has also been made (resources/demands balance), as well as a hydraulic study of the Monegros canal (90 km), and a detailed design for the modernization of a specific section of 14km.