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Little water and much greenery. This is the descriptive summary of the current situation of the Sau reservoir, in Osona. As can be seen in this report in Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia, the reservoir’s flow is once again falling, it is again below 30% and the ruins of old houses that were previously submerged in the water are even beginning to emerge again. Water.
The level of the Sau reservoir is at 28%, when a year ago it was at 47% and the average for the last five years is 122%. After being below 10% in the worst of the drought, the rains in late spring and early summer brought it back above 30%, but now it is going down again, as can be seen in the pictures.
Of course, the landscape that surrounds the reservoir has been filling with vegetation, with which the green color is predominant, with plants that have reached a considerable height.
The Sau reservoir, in the municipality of Vilanova de Sau, at the foot of the Guilleries massif, belongs to the Ter river basin. It is part of a system of three swamps (along with those of Susqueda and Pasteral) that unites the counties of Osona, in the province of Barcelona, ??and Selva, in the province of Girona.
The reservoir, inaugurated in 1962, covered the town of Sant Romà de Sau, the remains of which, especially the bell tower of the temple, are visible when the level of the dammed water is low, as in times of drought like the one we have experienced and which It seems that it refuses to disappear.
