The Roman dam in Almonacid de la Cuba, Aragón, shedding its load after the flash floods this week in Spain. Built in the I century by Augustus, it’s partly responsible for Zaragoza not being flooded as badly as Valencia



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by MeCagoEnPeronconga

22 comments

  1. Ok, so what else has the Roman occupation done for Iberia?

  2. Does the modern population still rely on things built 20 centuries ago?

  3. I doubt this dam had any effect on Zaragoza being flooded or not. Zaragoza sits on the Ebro river. The river which is seen in this video is Rio Aguasvivas, which only joins the the Ebro over 50 kilometers downstream from Zaragoza.

  4. Nice, but, what is your source? In Monterrey, México, we recently built a similar dam, that we call “rompepicos”, to dampen the flood waters that periodically strike the city. 

  10. Thanks OP, the day was almost over without me thinking about the roman empire

  11. And the name Zaragoza is ultimately derived from Caesar Augustus, so there is another link!

  12. Like in Romania that we have not done anything since 1970s.

  13. “Partly responsible” as in “nothing to do with”. Considering the completely different geography and intensity of the rain that created the flood in Valencia. On top, that dam is filled to the brim since centuries. All water coming in goes out, there is no storage capacity.  What you are seeing is just rhe river flow above the old dam.

  14. Sounds like someone doesn’t invest in Infrastructure enough.

  15. Rome had a form of concrete we struggle to duplicate. It is self-healing as when cracks form and water penetrates it will fill in the cracks and make the concrete even stronger. Modern concrete crumbles to dust.

  17. Dammit man, I was this close to going a full day without thinking about the Roman Empire!

  21. So global warming was real 2000 years ago as well. Got it.

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