Value of the Investment: US$ 600 millions.
Estimated generation startup: 31/12/97

Situation of the works on the 31/07/96: 99.2% of the affected areas are expropriated; 99% of the common excavation and 99.5% of the rock excavation are completed; 93.4% of the bulk of the dam is in place and 60.3% of the concrete works are complete; The scroll case for Unit 1 is complete and the assembly of the scroll case for Unit 2 and the sealing of the draft tube of unit 3 are in progress.

Location: river Araguari, between the townships of Uberlândia and Justinópolis in the State of Minas Gerais, downstream from the Nova Ponte hydroelectric power station, 400 kilometers from Belo Horizonte.
Works started: 23/04/90
River diversion: via two 560 m long tunnels, on 31/10/91
Main characteristics: Dam: overall length, 1,050 m; height 82 m; crest elevation 699 m; reservoir area, 51 km² Location: river Araguari, between the townships of Uberlândia and Justinópolis in the State of Minas Gerais, downstream from the Nova Ponte hydroelectric power station, 400 kilometers from Belo Horizonte.
Works started: 23/04/90
River diversion: via two 560 m long tunnels, on 31/10/91
Main characteristics: Dam: overall length, 1,050 m; height 82 m; crest elevation 699 m; reservoir area, 51 km²

Installed potential: 390.000 Kw

Francis Type Turbines: 03 unidades

Reservoir: 50,61 km² for the highest upstream water level at the maximum elevation of 696.49 m a. s. l. (above sea level).

Dam earth and rock fill:
- Length at the crest (elevation 699.00m): - El.699,00 m: 1.050 m
- Maximum height: 85,00 m
- Volume of mechanized excavation: 1.866.500 m³
- Rock fill: 1.777.150 m³
- Filters and transitions: 210.170 m³
- Compacted clay: 3.670.380 m³
- Dam total: 5.657.700 m³

Surface spillway: discharge of 9.037 m³/s - radial gates.

Structural concrete: total volume of 53.910 m³

Rock excavation: total volume of 379.390 m³

Principal events:
- Works commenced: 23rd of April 1990
- River diversion: 4th of June 1991
- Tunnels' closure in order to fill the reservoir: 1st of September 1997
- Commercial operation of the unit number 1: 30th of December 1997

Length of the dam: 1.050 m

Maximum height of the dam: 85 m

Maximum volume of the reservoir: 1.145x10⁶m³

Generation units: 3 Francis type turbines, 130,000 kW each

Final installed potential: 390.000 kW

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT

ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVITIES

Conservation unit - Jacob's Reserve

A "Field Day" was held within the confines of the Reserve on the 22nd of June 1996, where bordering rural property owners and other neighbors were present. The purposes of the encounter were to : present the Unit to those invited, to improve relations, to establish a communications channel, as well as having a get together. The "Field Day" event that was attended by over 50 people, started at 2:30 p.m. and comprised the following agenda: a CEMIG presentation, where the legal and institutional aspects, security, maintenance, and other Company preoccupations regarding the Reserve were explained; A presentation by the IEF (State Forestry Institute) and the Forestry Police; a visit to the Reserve and finally a lunch which pleased all those present was served during the closing stages of the event.

Clearing of the Accumulation Basin

Work has been started on the access roads plus the topographical demarcation of the tracts of land that are to be cleared, by the Companies awarded contracts through the Bid Tender held by CEMIG.

Environmental education

The opening of the Miranda Hydroelectric Power Station Environmental Exposition to public visits was carried out by Dr. Otavio Azeredo Furquim Werneck, Director of DPC on the 12th of June '96. During the month the Environmental Exposition was visited by groups of students from Uberlândia (Messias Pedreiro State School, Teresa Valse Institute, Federal University of Uberlândia and the Mondragon Educational Center) and from Belo Horizonte (Federal University of Minas Gerais).