Detalhes do Projeto

CRASTO DAM AND IRRIGATION NETWORK

Client: Direcção Regional de Agricultura de Trás-os-Montes
Location: Valpaços – Portugal
Conclusion Year: 1992

Dam

Reinforced concrete dam of thick cross-sectional profile with vertical upstream face and the downstream face coutoured by a parabolical surface with no flood-gates.

Length: 35 m
Crest height above the river-bed: 2.90 m
Crest height above the foundation: 7.90 m

Irrigation Network

Main system: channel with 4370 m, 800 m being of pression duct, following the perimeter along the left bank.
Secondary system: channel with 1290 m, 297 being of pression duct on the right bank.