Guarapiranga Channel
The Guarapiranga Channel was intended to create a water reserve for supplying the Billings Reservoir for facing lack of flow of the Tietê River. By means of this channel , the water discharged through the floodgates and the free spillway of the Guarapiranga Dam, arrives to the Pinheiros Channel. This channel is 1,875 m long and its main affluent l is the Ponte Baixa Creek.

Pinheiros Channel
The Pinheiros channel originated from the correction of the Pinheiros River, which started during the 30's and was concluded in 1957. Its main objective was to increase the generating capacity of the Henry Borden Power Plant , by means of the reversion of the water of the Pinheiros and Tietê Rivers, flowing them to the Billings Reservoir. The Step Up Plant of Traição divides this channel in two: the Lower r Pinheiros Channel

with 10,083 m, distance between the confluence with the Tietê River ("Cebolão") and the Step Up Plant of Traição, and the Higher Pinheiros Channel, with 15,461 m, distance between the step up plants of Traição and Pedreira.