The General Directorate of Water, under the Ministry of Equipment and Water said Tuesday that the reservoirs of large dams located in the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region have reached more than 904 million m3.
A report from the Directorate showed that the reservoirs of these dams, whose capacity exceeds 1.721 billion m3, have reached, to date, 904.24 million m3, representing a filling rate of 47.33%.
These dams recorded water inflows of approximately 50.95 million m3 over 3 days, following the heavy rains that fell in recent days in the various prefectures and provinces of the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region, increasing from 853.29 million m3 (a filling rate of 44.67%) to 904.24 million m3 between March 8 and 11.
Five dams in the Loukkos hydraulic basin recorded a filling rate of more than 70%, which include Oued El Makhazine dam, the largest dam in the region, which reached a filling rate of approximately 72.82%, or 490 million m3, the Acharif Al Idrissi dam (82.99%/100.96 million m3), the Chefchaouen dam (98.39%/12.05 million m3), the Smir dam (74.85%/29.16 million m3) and the Nakhla dam (82.95%/3.49 million m3).
The report also notes that four dams in the basin recorded a filling rate varying between 30 and 70%, namely the Tangier Méditerranée dam which showed a filling rate of 65.41%, or 14.4 million m3, the El Kharroub dam (50.37%/95.06 million m3), the Ibn Battouta dam (38.6%/11.24 million m3) and the Moulay El Hassan Ben El Mahdi dam (46.35%/10.86 million m3).
The filling rate of the other dams in the basin was less than 30%. These are the April 9 dam, which recorded a filling rate of 20.88%, or 62.64 million m3, the Dar Khrofa dam (14.76%/70.9 million m3), the Abdelkrim Al Khattabi dam (25.04%/2.95 million m3), and the Joumoua dam (10.95%/0.56 million m3).
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