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East-West Water Transfer Benefits Agriculture and the Population

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Trasvase Este Oeste
 
The East-West water Transfer that is being built in the province of Holguín shows progress in its different phases of construction, while the benefits reported extend to larger agricultural areas and the Holguín population, mainly.
 
Executives of this great hydraulic work confirmed on Wednesday to the delegates to the National Meeting of Sugar Patrimony, with headquarters until Friday in the city of Holguín that the construction of the transfer advances according to the plan, while investments exceed 80 million pesos so far this year.
 
That amount offers the real possibilities of completing by the end of December the 95 million pesos allocated for the different works, mainly the construction of canals and tunnels, which allow the water transfer from the Mayarí dam, starting point of the extraordinary hydraulic work, towards smaller reservoirs.

Currently, the transfer extends for about 28 kilometers from the main dam, which reservoir capacity is of 350 million cubic meters with a network that shows increasing security and guarantees progressively dispose of the volumes of water demanded for agriculture and supply to the population.
 
This hydraulic network mainly benefits sugar cane plantations of the municipalities of Cueto and Báguano, and rice and tobacco areas of the Mayarí integral agricultural company.

Lauriano Ferrer Chong, deputy director of the engineering services company Trasvase, in charge of the construction of this work, said to the ACN that brigades are already working on the third stage of the six included in the project.

Leobel Pérez Hernández, president of the National Sugar Heritage Commission, valued the contributions that can be achieved in the sugarcane production of the country based on the benefits offered by the Transfer in the cultivation of this line.