Access to the Pacific Ocean in the Panama Canal- Pac 4

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This project is situated along the Panama Canal and consists of the excavation of a new course in the Canal that will connect the new locks with the so-called Corte Culebra, the narrowest strip of the waterway close to the Pacific Ocean entrance to the Canal.The works, consist of the construction of 3.7 kilometres of approach to the Pacific Locks, with a 200-metre width.It includes the installation of containment structure made up of cellular coffer dams along more than 1.5 kilometres that allows the construction of a 2.9-kilometre long earth and rock dam with an impermeable clay core, with a base approximately 150 metres long and 26 metres high and a 30-metre wide crest.The works include the excavation, transport and dumping of some 27 million cubic metres of mainly rocky material.In addition, the access roadway sand diversion water drainage channels will be constructed, together with tanks and the cleaning of approximately 80 hectares of firing ranges.

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