This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Hibapress
The filling rate of the Oued El Makhazine dam reached 100%on Monday, bringing the number of fully -filled dams to four from the Loukkos (Abhl) hydraulic basin agency.
According to the daily report of the General Directorate of Hydraulic Engineering under the Ministry of Equipment and Water, the filling rate of Oued El Makhazine, Charif Al Idrissi, Chefchaouen and Nakhla dams reached 100%, thanks to recent precipitation.
The total water deductions from the main dams of the agency thus reached 1,172.66 million cubic meters (M3), an average filling rate of approximately 61.38%.
The water deductions from the Oued El Makhazine dam, the largest dam in the Tangier-Tétouan-Al Hoceima region, reached around 672.86 million m3, while they amounted to 121.65 million m3 at the Charif Al Idrissi dam, 12.24 million m3 at the Chefchaouen dam and 4.21 million m3 at the Nakhla barrage.
In addition, the filling rate of four other dams exceeds 50%. These are the Tangier-Méditerranée dam (15.27 million m3, or 69.33%), the SMIR dam (30.28 million m3, or 77.74%), the Kharroub dam (103.63 million m3, or 54.91%) and the Moulay El Hassan Ben El Mehdi dam (12.02 million m3, or 51.31%).
In addition, the filling rate of the remaining dams of the ABHL is less than 50%. The Ibn Batouta dam recorded a 48.53%filling rate/14.14 million m3, followed by the Mohamed Ben Abdelkrim Al Khattabi dam (35.37%/4.17 million m3), the Joumoua dam (24.82%/1.28 million m3), Dar Khrofa dam (23.25%/111.66 million M3), and the April 9 dam (23.08%/ 69.25 million m3).
