Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima dams exceed 41% filling rate

The General Direction of Hydraulics, affiliated with the Equipement and Water Ministry, has reported that the large dams in the Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima (TTA) region have reached a filling rate of over 41%.

According to a TTA report, the reservoirs of these dams, which have a capacity of over 1.721 billion m3, stood at 710.67 million m3 up to February 13, representing a fill rate of 41.28%.

In the Loukkos area, reservoirs at the Oued El Makhazine dam (Larache province), the largest dam in the region, reached 406.3 million m3, a fill rate of around 60.4%, compared with 558 million m3 during the same period a year earlier (82.9%), while reservoirs at the Dar Khrofa dam stood at 71.9 million m3 (15%), compared with 162.3 million m3 a year earlier (33.8%).

Reservoirs at the 9 avril dam (Tangier-Assilah prefecture) were filled to 41.2 million m3 (13.7%), compared with 58.9 million m3 (19.6%) a year earlier, while the Ibn Battouta dam was filled to 30.7% (8.9 million m3), compared with 17.4 million m3 (59.6) a year earlier.

The Moulay El Hassan Ben El Mahdi dam in the province of Fahs-Anjra reached a fill rate of 50.5% (11.8 million m3), while the Tanger Méditerranée dam in the province of Fahs-Anjra reached a fill rate of 75.5% (16.6 million m3).

In the province of Tétouan, the Nakhla dam reached a filling rate of 100% (4.2 million m3), while the Acharif Al Idrissi dam reached a filling rate of 86.1% (104.8 million m3), compared with 100% during the same period last year (121.6 million m3).

In the M’diq-Fnideq prefecture, the Smir dam recorded a fill rate of 78% (30.4 million m3), while the Chefchaouen dam recorded a fill rate of 94.8% (11.6 million m3). In the province of Al Hoceima, reservoirs at the Abdelkrim Al Khattabi dam reached 2.3 million m3, representing a fill rate of 19.6%, while the Jomoua dam (0.5 million m3) had a fill rate of 8.8%.