In canceling La Parota dam, Sheinbaum details a different water plan for rural Acapulco

President Claudia Sheinbaum announced Sunday the cancellation of the La Parota hydroelectric dam to alternatively treble down connected an alternate program featuring radial wells, rehabilitated pumping systems and elevated tanks to proviso h2o to the Acapulco area.

“Yesterday I informed the full agrarian country of ​​Acapulco that we are nary longer going to bash [the dam project] due to the fact that it would person greatly affected the communities,” Sheinbaum said. 

The hydroelectric dam project, which saw fierce absorption passim the authorities of Guerrero since it was announced successful 2003, would person displaced upwards of 25,000 inhabitants of bluish Acapulco. (Carlos Alberto Carbajal/Cuartoscuro)

The Federal Electricity Commission’s (FCE) projected 900-megawatt La Parota dam was expected to flood betwixt 14,000 and 17,000 hectares of land, impacting the municipalities of Acapulco, Juan R. Escudero, San Marcos, Chilpancingo and Tecoanapa. However, concerns implicit the onshore expropriation process and a deficiency of agreements with section communities drove Sheinbaum to cancel the project. 

Sheinbaum’s h2o strategy for Acapulco includes 3 radial wells on the Papagayo River, the rehabilitation of aqueducts, the repair of the pumping system, the operation of elevated tanks and the replacement of leaking h2o lines.

The works were initially included successful the January 2025 national programme “Acapulco Transforms with You,” established successful effect to the harm caused by Hurricanes Otis and John.

The radial wells are being built connected gangly towers — precocious capable to support them harmless from flood waters — and volition gully from the Papagayo River done underground postulation systems.

In addition, Sheinbaum said, the authorities volition regenerate drinking h2o lines successful the precocious portion of Acapulco, starting successful the vicinity of Renacimiento.

Cleanup enactment is present underway successful the Papagayo River, and dredging is taking spot to region sediment and summation the capableness of the riverbeds.

The purpose is to trim obstructions and trim the flood hazard during dense rainfall arsenic portion of Acapulco’s reconstruction and adaptation efforts pursuing the 2 terrible hurricanes.

Residents of towns bordering the stream person voiced their interest that the h2o works volition straight service beachfront Acapulco, alternatively of expanding their supply.   

With reports from El Imparcial, Expansión Política and Infobae