Empresas ICA, S.A.B. de C.V. announced the signing of the public works contract to build the Santa Maria reservoir dam with the Federal Water Commission, Conagua. The MXN 3,989 million unit-price, fixed-term public works contract was awarded through a domestic bidding process. The project is scheduled to be completed in January 2018.

The Santa Maria dam, to be located on the Rio Baluarte in Rosario, Sinaloa will provide water principally for agricultural use in Sinaloa, and aid in the development of value-added in the southern part of the state. The dam will have 120 m high and 784 m long. The reservoir will have a total storage capacity of approximately 980 million m3 of water, and be capable of irrigating approximately 24,000 hectares of farmland in the municipalities of Rosario and Escuinapa.