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Case Study : Olmos Diversion Project for Transforming Peru


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1 Student of B.Tech., Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Instrumentation and Control Department, Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering, New Delhi - 110 063, India
2 Associate Professor, Department of Instrumentation and Control, Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering, New Delhi - 110 063, India

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This project consists of a dam and a tunnel. The main aim of this project was to transport water from Cajamarca region to the Lambayeque region near Olmos. This transported water would make irrigation possible on 1,07,000 acres of arid farmland. The west and east regions of Peru separated by Andes mountains which are 7,000 ft high suffer two different extreme conditions. The west suffers a year long annual drought whereas, the East is flooded for most of the year. The only way out is to somehow transport the water from the flooded region to the fertile but dry farmlands to the west comprising of Peru’s 70% population. The project engineers faced major problems while on a seismically active site with plenty of earthquakes, landslides, and mudslides. Let us see how Peru made it possible.

Keywords

Entrepreneurship, Dam, Flooding, Tunnel.

Manuscript Received: March 18, 2020; Revised: April 17, 2020; Accepted: April 24, 2020.

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Authors

Aaryan Sharma
Student of B.Tech., Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Instrumentation and Control Department, Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering, New Delhi - 110 063, India
Arvind Rehalia
Associate Professor, Department of Instrumentation and Control, Bharati Vidyapeeth’s College of Engineering, New Delhi - 110 063, India

Abstract


This project consists of a dam and a tunnel. The main aim of this project was to transport water from Cajamarca region to the Lambayeque region near Olmos. This transported water would make irrigation possible on 1,07,000 acres of arid farmland. The west and east regions of Peru separated by Andes mountains which are 7,000 ft high suffer two different extreme conditions. The west suffers a year long annual drought whereas, the East is flooded for most of the year. The only way out is to somehow transport the water from the flooded region to the fertile but dry farmlands to the west comprising of Peru’s 70% population. The project engineers faced major problems while on a seismically active site with plenty of earthquakes, landslides, and mudslides. Let us see how Peru made it possible.

Keywords


Entrepreneurship, Dam, Flooding, Tunnel.

Manuscript Received: March 18, 2020; Revised: April 17, 2020; Accepted: April 24, 2020.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17010/ijce%2F2020%2Fv3i1%2F152721