{"id":"2026-oct10-frbr-it-next-brazil-piaui-dam-progress","canonicalSlug":"2026-oct10-frbr-it-next-brazil-piaui-dam-progress","url":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/2026-oct10-frbr-it-next-brazil-piaui-dam-progress","language":"en","title":"Piauí dam project reaches 57.32% completion","summary":"The Nova Algodões dam at Cocal has reached 57.32% completion, with R$240 million in federal New PAC funding reported for the project.","body":["The Piauí government reported on 10 October that the Nova Algodões dam, under construction at Cocal in the state’s north, had reached 57.32% completion. The project uses 213,000 cubic metres of roller-compacted concrete and 32,000 cubic metres of conventional concrete in the dam structure, according to the report.","The state’s Institute for Development of Piauí (Idepi) is carrying out the work, which the article says receives R$240 million through the federal New PAC programme. The report describes water supply, irrigation, farming, livestock and fish-farming as expected benefits; it does not report that these services or economic gains have already been delivered."],"keyPoints":[],"sections":[],"text":"Piauí dam project reaches 57.32% completion\n\nThe Nova Algodões dam at Cocal has reached 57.32% completion, with R$240 million in federal New PAC funding reported for the project.\n\nThe Piauí government reported on 10 October that the Nova Algodões dam, under construction at Cocal in the state’s north, had reached 57.32% completion. The project uses 213,000 cubic metres of roller-compacted concrete and 32,000 cubic metres of conventional concrete in the dam structure, according to the report.\n\nThe state’s Institute for Development of Piauí (Idepi) is carrying out the work, which the article says receives R$240 million through the federal New PAC programme. The report describes water supply, irrigation, farming, livestock and fish-farming as expected benefits; it does not report that these services or economic gains have already been delivered.","category":"economy","region":"world","topics":["non-oil-economy"],"eventDate":"2026-10-10","eventDateBasis":"Source report date; the report does not specify when the construction-progress figures were measured.","publishedAt":"2026-10-10T19:12:42Z","modifiedAt":"2026-10-10T19:12:42Z","publicationBasis":"first-publication","preparedAt":"2026-10-10T19:12:22Z","sourcePublishedAt":"2026-10-10","translatedAt":"2026-10-10T18:53:35Z","sources":[{"url":"https://www.pi.gov.br/barragem-nova-algodoes-alcanca-5732-de-execucao-em-cocal-aponta-idepi/","name":"Piauí government — Barragem Nova Algodões reaches 57.32% completion","checkedAt":"2026-10-10","attribution":"Piauí state government, report published 10 October 2026 at 10:54 local time. Facts paraphrased independently; no source text or image reproduced. No open licence identified on the article page.","publishedAt":"2026-10-10"}],"translations":{"en":"https://wellficent.com/en/news/2026-oct10-frbr-it-next-brazil-piaui-dam-progress","tr":"https://wellficent.com/tr/news/2026-oct10-frbr-it-next-brazil-piaui-dam-progress","ar":"https://wellficent.com/ar/news/2026-oct10-frbr-it-next-brazil-piaui-dam-progress","fr":"https://wellficent.com/fr/news/2026-oct10-frbr-it-next-brazil-piaui-dam-progress","es":"https://wellficent.com/es/news/2026-oct10-frbr-it-next-brazil-piaui-dam-progress","ru":"https://wellficent.com/ru/news/2026-oct10-frbr-it-next-brazil-piaui-dam-progress","pt":"https://wellficent.com/pt/news/2026-oct10-frbr-it-next-brazil-piaui-dam-progress"},"corrections":[],"locations":[],"type":"news","classification":{"version":"1","dataKinds":["project-update"],"geographies":[{"role":"event-location","countryCode":"BR","subdivisionCode":"BR-PI"},{"role":"economic-scope","countryCode":"BR","subdivisionCode":"BR-PI"}],"evidenceBasis":["reported-observation","plan"],"measurementPeriod":null}}