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The main goal is to provide the Miño-Limia Water Authority with the know-how and human and material resources it needs to capture, transmit, process and present hydrological and hydraulic status information in the catchment area to be used as an aid for the management of the available resources and also for surveillance and flash-flood-protection purposes.

To achieve this objective, defined working routes will be used, once the special characteristics of the catchment area have been determined, and a wide range of improvements will be offered, at no cost to the Authority, to strengthen the system and cover any needs that may have arisen in the course of day-to-day operations, whether to extend the features of systems (an option that SICE is able to offer, having fully developed the subsystems that make up the SAIH) or to carry out minor updates.

Using the study carried out to implement models and the physical, hydrological and hydraulic characterisation of the catchment area that has been done, SICE proposes creating am operating methodology based on in-depth knowledge of the Northern SAIH and the experience of operating and maintaining other SAIHs.

This methodology is considered to comply with all the requirements to assure the reception and storage at the control centre of the highest possible data quantity and quality, and its monitoring, analysis, modelling and distribution, to be supplied to the Miño-Limia Water Authority’s various different services and other recipients of the information.

SICE proposes implementing a decision-making assistance system for the Miño-Limia SAIH, implemented with the FEWS (Flood Early Warning System). The appropriate software will be developed to implement this system to aid the system’s management of hydrological information, both to forecast and control flash floods and to manage the catchment area’s water resources.

The value of the contract awarded to SICE by the Spanish Ministry of the Environment, Rural and Marine Areas is € 5,199,577.69.

A number of additional proposals will also be submitted, at no extra cost for the authority, such as contracting a hydrometeorological forecasting service, improvements for the dissemination of the SAIH service, collaboration service and the adoption of the SAIH protocol for flood management, etc.