Within the particular context of the Cortinas area, located in Toledo, department of Norte de Santander, Colombia, there is a sector that is characterized by frequently presenting mass removal movements that constitute a latent geotechnical threat to residents, homes and buildings; among them, that of the hydrocarbon transportation systems, which have been affected to the point of failure, the last of this nature being the one that occurred in August 2021. Since then and until today, the companies that own the pipelines have implemented strategies that must solve both the technical and socio-environmental-economic complexity, typical of the region; this in order to achieve, the immediate provisional recovery and in the long term, the normalization of it.
In accordance with the above, Cenit, owner of the Caño Limón Coveñas pipeline, decided to locate the pipeline on the surface of the current Right of Way, for which it was necessary to specify both the engineering design and the layout of the pipeline, the construction procedure and its protection; In addition, a monitoring system was proposed whose results should be analyzed in the coming times. The details of these activities constitute the content of this paper.