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The exceptional floods in the early 2000s, which were particularly devastating for the country, demonstrated that the existing spillway could not discharge the revised design flood.
Following a comparison of the various possible alternatives, reconstruction of an auxiliary spillway equipped with fusegates was chosen.
This solution offered significant cost reductions for construction and maintenance.