Pafos Press 28 December 2024
The senior Executive Engineer of the Water Development Department, Gianna Oikonomidou, spoke about the situation at the dams on Sigma's Mesimeri and Kati Broadcast.
As he explained, the inflow of water in the last four days amounted to 1.6 million cubic meters of water, with the largest inflow observed at the Kourris dam with 377,000 cubic meters. At the Arminos dam 247,000, and at Asprogremos with 244,000.
The total inflow since the start of the hydrological year that began on October 1 stands at 7.2 million meters of water, while total dam capacity rose slightly to 25.8 from 25.4% on December 23. low levels, compared to last year's occupancy which was at 45.5%", he said adding that the positive thing is that the flow from rivers to dams has started".
"We definitely need much higher rain heights to get large inflows," he said.
A total of 325,000 cubic meters of water at the three Paphos dams in the last four days
The three dams of Paphos – Asprokremos, Kanavi and Mavrokolympos – collected 325,000 cubic meters of water in the last four days out of 1.6 million cubic meters of water that flowed into the Pangypria dams, according to an Officer of the Water Development Department.
In the district of Paphos, there has been continuous rainfall for the last four days. However, the Water Development Department Officer described the rainfall as low. He pointed out that the rainfall was of the order of 30-40 millimeters of rainfall throughout Cyprus distributed throughout the four days.
He pointed out that only when the rain continues for two or three hours then there is a rapid flow of the rivers with inflow into the dams.
In the district of Paphos, despite the large amount of rain that fell, there were no serious flooding problems or problems with the road network or the drainage network.
