Overview
- Peru’s Comptroller formally alerted the National Water Authority on March 13 to overflow risk tied to deficient cleaning and desilting managed by ALA Tumbes.
- Auditors found borrow earth placed over an existing dyke instead of the specified rock protection, leaving the structure vulnerable to rapid erosion during high flows.
- The S/6.5 million intervention slated for 2.80 km remains unfinished, with about 1.18 km pending as of the February 16 field check.
- Six heavy machines—three dump trucks and three front loaders—are idle for lack of operators, and a tanker at Centro Experimental Tumpis lacks complete documentation.
- The Comptroller requested immediate measures to safeguard nearby populations and agricultural land, noting the river’s considerable flow could rise with El Niño.