Melonares Dam
Construction of the Melonares Dam, ecological compensation area and set of compensatory and corrective measures for environmental impact, various municipalities various. Seville.
The Melonares Dam, classified as a large dam, is located on the river Viar and floods a strip of 16 km longitudinally along the course of the river, covering 14.57 km2 The gravity arch of the Melonares Dam is 50.25 m high, made of vibrated concrete, and has a capacity of 180 hm3 and 1,300 ha of surface area, with an accompanying dyke of approximately 1,300 m in length and two weirs at the tail of the reservoir made of compacted concrete. A total of 83,617 m3 of concrete was used for its execution.