A report by the General Audit Office (AGN) said the water system has paralyzed the Picasa construction and even though others are running this precludes proper operation of the entire plant. The watchdog also said that in some cases the delivery process works completed in their respective provinces took more than three years.

 
It’s the system that evacuates excess water from the lagoon located in the territory of the provinces of Córdoba, Santa Fe, and Buenos Aires to the Salado River. According to the report "the two systems are interconnected, interdependent, and require to function properly all the constructions completed."
 
Even though "the 10 works envisaged, 8 were not completed at the end of the audit (August 2010)," there was "one under construction and another stalled", affecting the activity of the system. Note that the report of the AGN approved this year, is a follow-up on the points given in 2007 under the Federal Flood Control Plan.
 
The work that was being executed, the Picasa Module III, originally available "within 2000 days and the amount budgeted $ 32,649,758.08" but "because of inconvenience for the release of the area where the station was running "at the time of the audit it only finalized 55.8% of the work," 2371 days had elapsed and the value-paid was higher than the original amount of $35,932,658.60." The report said it was "the responsibility of the Province of Buenos Aires" to deliver the liberated area in good conditions.
 
As for the stalled work, the regulation of the Salada Lagoon started in June 2004 and was supposed to be ready in "540 days" with a budget of $ 14,726,758.61. However, until last April only $ 2,359,742.01 had been used, an 11.85% of the work.
 
The National Audit Office also found that completed projects "demanded extensions of time and increased the original prices." Causes: "Difficulties in obtaining rights of way like liberated trace" and "the administrative process of reprising."

Regarding the last point, the report says that "the time elapsed since the formal request of the construction company to the approving resolution is two to five years." In fact one of those works, the Las Horquetas Section III, which was supposed to take 365 days, took 2182 and its price change was only $ 13,143,061.00 to $ 15,878,663.90.
 
Receiving Jobs

The report noted that there were tasks that until June of last year didn’t have the resolution approving the transfer of work to the consequent province.
 
According to the Terms and Conditions, "at the end, the work must be provisionally received by the inspection work by the Provisional Acceptance Certificate (ARP, for its acronym in Spanish)" where "the date of completion of the work is recorded and names those deficiencies that the contractor must fix. "The minutes shall be approved by Ministerial Resolution and after 180 days must issue the "Final Acceptance Act" (ARD, for its acronym in Spanish), which also requires ministerial resolution. Once the ARD is signed the under secretariat of Water Resources finally gives the work to the relevant province.
 
It can be seen that there were five temporary jobs act without ministerial resolution; the one that consumed most of the time was Picasa Module II with 1242 days. Furthermore, they detected four works without definitive minutes or resolution, including Las Horquetas Section I 1450 without ARD.

The AGN said that "none of the construction jobs mentioned above had ministerial resolution approving final acceptance", this means that none had been assigned to the province. Finally, the report added that "they also didn’t have a resolution –the last step of the process- those which did have a signed certificate of final acceptance."