Paphos Life

Paphos Life continues to monitor the growing possibility of the Asprokremmos dam overflowing this year. As of 28th February, the dam was at 95.4% of capacity or 49.985 MCM, an increase of 20% of the capacity seen at the end of January...

Read the article and chat about it below...
   

There is certainly rain forecast for some of the next three days. Sunday being the worst

Flossie wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2019 9:03 pm Early next week they're saying now!

that's what we figure too. Certainly hope so, as it will be a bit less crowded then.

Aspro now at 98.9%

Flossie wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2019 11:45 am Forecast to overflow betwen 4pm and 5pm today - Cyprus time of course!!

Yes, Cyprus time! It is overflowing NOW, a day later....

Max

That is silly. Water is coming over the edges of the dam. Therefore it is overflowing.

You can see our film of it here:

It is apparently officially overflowing now:

https://pafospress.com/%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE% ... %B1%CF%83/

(Link includes video)

Google translate:

“It is now official and was also given by the Water Department that the Asprokremmos dam has overflowed.
As long as the quantity currently entering the barrier from the flow of the rivers simultaneously exits from the overflow point.”

I presume all the aquifers will also be full and Cyprus will be self-sufficient in water for at least 3 years - even with zero rain

Let's hope the current mayor is not as stupid as the previous one and continues to push ahead with the desalination plant!


Shane

Now this is an overflow

Kouris Dam 8 April 2012




And this is where it reached the bottom before heading off towards the sea. Taken at Erimi Bridge near the Wine Museum on the Limassol to Paphos old road as you head in the direction of Akrotiri turnoff and Curium Beach:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Doxbe7AqW9E

The last time it did...

No, the poster who thought that presumeably the aquifers are now full... the aquifers are very, very deep underground. In fact it takes century’s for them to fill up. In recent years thanks to over use of many bore holes and wells, some very deep, the aquifers were known to be very depleted. It will take a considerable period of time for them to re fill and that would also depend on how much water continues to be extracted from them on a daily basis as well as the amount of ground water that percolates downwards to eventually re fill them.
Dee.
Dee

I would have therefore thought that using excess water at this time to put back into bore holes would be a sustainable and proper notion