The government of Buenos Aires Province will begin the bidding process for the comprehensive reconstruction of the Maldonado Canal in the city of Bahía Blanca. This decision was made following the natural disaster and flooding that occurred on March 7th, with a project budget of over 35 billion pesos. Through Resolution 1074, published in the Official Gazette of the province, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Public Services issued the public tender call. The bids will be opened on December 5th at noon, with a total budget of 35,619,642,747 pesos. It has been reported that the works will be carried out by the Provincial Directorate of Hydraulic Engineering, under the Subsecretariat of Water Resources. The project's objective is the reconstruction and expansion of the hydraulic capacity of the Maldonado Canal, which is part of the lower basin of the Napostá Stream. According to information from the Noticias Argentinas agency, the project includes a new 6-kilometer transversal section, divided into 3 sub-sections, and 16 new bridges. This will triple the original flow, increasing it from 300 to 900 cubic meters per second, and expand its cross-sectional area from 19 to 26 square meters. In this context, it was stated that the Buenos Aires provincial government has launched the Comprehensive Reconstruction Plan for Bahía Blanca, which to date has an extraordinary multi-year estimated investment of 210,554 million pesos to address the emergency. It also promotes a set of short, medium, and long-term interventions aimed at responding to the recovery of the city's structural infrastructure. The plan includes the Hydraulic System Plan; the Comprehensive Recovery and Refunctionalization of the Penna Hospital; and the Infrastructure Reconstruction Fund.
