The process of flooding of new locks on the Atlantic side begins
June 10th 2015
Grupo Unidos por el Canal (GUPC),
contractor for the project design
and construction of the third set of
locks, started Wednesday night with
the opening of five valves that
marked the beginning of the process
of flooding of the new locks on the
Atlantic sector.
In this
first phase, the new Atlantic Lock
testing with water starts, five
million cubic meters of water are
needed to fill the first two
chambers, an operation that will
take approximately four days.
Giuseppe Quarta, CEO of GUPC,
said the opening of the valves
represents the culmination of five
years of efforts in one of the most
complex projects in the world. Over
the years about 50 thousand people
worked in this project.
This image shows the water starting
to flood the new Locks facing the
Atlantic Ocean in Colon.
GUPC reported that the flooding
of each lock can take about three to
four months, and plans to make this
process of flooding in the Pacific
sector soon.
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