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Does Anyone Know the Name of this Dam?

wiltonh - 6-28-2015 at 07:08 PM

It is located a few miles North of the Cabo Airport.



There are more pictures located here:

http://windsurf.mediaforte.com/Baja/Dam.html

gnukid - 6-28-2015 at 07:25 PM

Presa San Lazaro?

wiltonh - 6-28-2015 at 07:37 PM

No this is a new dam that is just being built. It is further North than Presa San Lazaro.

AKgringo - 6-28-2015 at 07:49 PM

Does any one know if the dam is designed for water storage, or if it is primarily a flood control project?

Other than the spillway and flood gates, I don't see any construction that looks like it is designed to deliver water to a system.

gnukid - 6-28-2015 at 08:19 PM

Presa La Palma?

Suspenden construcción de la Presa La Palma
http://noticabos.org/2015/04/13/presa-la-palma-2/

wiltonh - 6-28-2015 at 09:51 PM

I show the coordinates for Presa La Palma as follows:

Latitude/Longitude:
N 30° 43' 0.01" W 108° 15' 0.00" (30.71667, -108.25000)

The dam I visited is located at the following:

Latitude/Longitude:
N 23° 15' 12.98" W 109° 49' 33.79"

The gates were still open when we were there so no water had collected.

There was some construction on the back side of the dam which does not show up in the pictures I took. It looked like they were pouring concrete on some sort of structure that was located at the North end on the down stream side. We did not go down to see what they were doing.






[Edited on 6-29-2015 by wiltonh]

[Edited on 6-29-2015 by wiltonh]

gnukid - 6-28-2015 at 10:36 PM

The coordinates you give looks like the Presa La Palma, an incomplete dam, it is on the arroyo. Use google earth...

N 23° 15' 12.98" W 109° 49' 33.79"

(Many places have similar names in mexico)

[Edited on 6-29-2015 by gnukid]

wiltonh - 6-29-2015 at 08:17 AM

You might be right as it is incomplete. When I looked it up in Google, here is what I found.

Presa La Palma
Location:
2 Km from El Cuervo
Chihuahua
Mexico
Time Zone:
America/Chihuahua UTC/GMT-07:00 (DST +01:00)
Latitude/Longitude:
N 30° 43' 0.01" W 108° 15' 0.00" (30.71667, -108.25000)

If you locate that on a map, it is on the mainland. Maybe there are two dams by the same name, one in Baja and one up near the US border. I know that many city names are reused but never thought about them doing the same thing for Dam names.

David K - 6-29-2015 at 08:36 AM

Quote: Originally posted by wiltonh  
I show the coordinates for Presa La Palma as follows:

Latitude/Longitude:
N 30° 43' 0.01" W 108° 15' 0.00" (30.71667, -108.25000)

The dam I visited is located at the following:

Latitude/Longitude:
N 23° 15' 12.98" W 109° 49' 33.79"

The gates were still open when we were there so no water had collected.

There was some construction on the back side of the dam which does not show up in the pictures I took. It looked like they were pouring concrete on some sort of structure that was located at the North end on the down stream side. We did not go down to see what they were doing.



Right there where you said it was, on Google Earth too, Nov., 2014 image. On Arroyo la Palma and Cañon el Cajon, per the 2009 Almanac Map 22, S2.



Arroyo la Palma dam.jpg - 181kB

Gulliver - 6-29-2015 at 05:43 PM

Now if we can only get a dam like that for Mulege!!!

Interesting that the dam names are Presa (predator). There is a rancho named La Presa 45 miles up a jeep road N.W. of Mulege. Nice folks. I stop there when I'm riding my motorcycle in the hills. The first time I stopped I asked the farm wife if this was La Presa she smiled and said, "Lagarto solamente." (Nothing but lizards). True.

rts551 - 6-29-2015 at 05:53 PM

cool. a dam with no water.

woody with a view - 6-29-2015 at 06:05 PM

it's name is God.

gnukid - 6-29-2015 at 08:01 PM

The article states that the Dam was funded under Calderon in 2012 but had not recieved the promised payments for 3 weeks from CONAGUA so they stopped work in April 2015. Though the Dam could be able to collect water now, protect the land and people from flood damage and replenish the aquifer with coming rainy season and the additional distribution will be built when money arrives from the Mexican Government.

http://noticabos.org/2015/04/13/presa-la-palma-2/



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wiltonh - 6-30-2015 at 08:43 AM

The day we visited, there were lots of people working. They have a concrete plant about 1/4 mile up stream from the dam and people and trucks were there also.

It appeared that the top part of the South end was all that needed to be finished. One of my pictures shows concrete forms with a man working on them.

There was another crew working on the down stream side near the base but we could not see what they were doing.

There are two roads into the dam. One comes in from the East and it will all be flooded along with the concrete plant. The other comes in from the North West and it will always be above the high water mark.

David K - 6-30-2015 at 08:50 AM

Quote: Originally posted by gnukid  
The article states that the Dam was funded under Calderon in 2012 but had not recieved the promised payments for 3 weeks from CONAGUA so they stopped work in April 2015. Though the Dam could be able to collect water now, protect the land and people from flood damage and replenish the aquifer with coming rainy season and the additional distribution will be built when money arrives from the Mexican Government.

http://noticabos.org/2015/04/13/presa-la-palma-2/



[Edited on 6-30-2015 by gnukid]


Thanks for the link... !

Not to highjack your thread

durrelllrobert - 6-30-2015 at 10:34 AM

..but since the dam has been located I wanted to ask if anyone knows the location of Sonova beach? I keep hearing Mexicans saying Sonova beach hoy en día es muy caliente, and I'd like to check it out :biggrin:

gnukid - 6-30-2015 at 10:50 AM

Quote: Originally posted by durrelllrobert  
..but since the dam has been located I wanted to ask if anyone knows the location of Sonova beach? I keep hearing Mexicans saying Sonova beach hoy en día es muy caliente, and I'd like to check it out :biggrin:


Muy circa de Playa Cabrona