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History of Dique Lujan


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roducts through a river port he reached Mr. Maschwitz. The Canal Villanueva is part of this project but was never completed.

*  1913 The land that was earmarked for the establishment of the new railway station was in a flood zone, it was necessary to fill the field by removing the land needed for the same property, creating a pool of 5 hectares with a depth of approximately 6 meters, and 500 meters long, its length and magnitude railroad workers began calling this quarry "LUJAN Barrage" because of the proximity to the Rio Lujan, adopting the new railway station called "DAM LUJÁN ". On October 12, 1913 after completion of the works the engineer Saturnino Ortuzar gives the order to open the existing quarry to the Rio Lujan thus creating a mirror of water since the construction is giving his name to the place, and in commemoration of this day's main street was renamed Luján Dock "October 12" . Benito Villanueva proposed leverage the arrival of the railroad to its low land to create a new development called City of Delta. To achieve this would solve the problem of flooding, for which he built a series of canals to desagotar fields as channels Villanueva, Los Sauces, Rioja, Pacheco, Garcia and Carolina among others. But the inhospitable place and the lack of solutions to the growing scourge, the City did not stop Delta be a dream for many years.

*   April 27th 1914 is inaugurated the train station Dique Luján, the branch of 7 km to the Río Luján joined the railroad tracks to Rosario ( FCGBM ), on land ceded by Don Benito Villanueva donation, joining the station new town called "Dock Luján" with the then town "Los Arenales" (Maschwitz Engineer today) because Villanueva lift the "Delta City", a Venice Argentina, for which he hired the engineer Saturnino de Ortúzar, which drew a number of channels still stand out among the lush island. As a basis for the creation of this city Villanueva thought there run off port and dry dock, which then
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