Lima, Peru � A Brazilian consortium constructing a dam in Southern Brazil has come up with a plan to repair the damage that led to a failure in the structure�s diversion tunnels that led to the draining of the facility�s reservoir in June.
The $523.9-million Campos Novos Dam was slated to go fully on-line this month but on June 20, two of three gates on a diversion tunnel built to divert the flow of the Canoas River failed. Officials now estimate more than 1 billion cubic meters of water from the reservoir flowed downstream and was captured by the reservoir for another recently built dam.