Dec 17 Local government

سد برادون في اللاذقية.. مشروع استراتيجي يؤمن مياه الشرب للتجمعات السكانية ويروي آلاف الهكتارات
Baraadoun Dam in Lattakia .. Strategic project provides drinking water for communities and tells thousands of hectares
http://www.sana.sy/ara/348/2011/12/17/388871.htm
December 17, .2011
Lattakia, (SANA) -

Baraadoun Dam project aims which is the second largest dam in the province of Latakia is vital to secure drinking water for communities nearby and electric power generation through its ability turbines 5.4 MW and irrigation areas of agricultural land is estimated at 7500 hectares.

The project works, which lies 50 km from the city to regulate the flow of the river and feed the Great Northern Dam Lake, October 16 water during periods of drought.

It is expected to be completed in the project who is 8 kilometers along the lake, and stores about 140 million cubic meters at the end of next year, where the work consists of the injection and the body of the dam and barrier manufacturing facilities and conversion tunnel outlet spillway and irrigation, roads and building investment.

And showed the President Office of follow-up in the Directorate of Water Resources to maintain engineered praise for Yusuf, the rate of implementation of the project amounted to 3.83 percent at a cost of about two billion pounds out of 3 billion and 775 million pounds, noting that the value of an extension project contract amount to 434 million spent from 358 million pounds.

In turn, noted the project manager Salah Al-work to the completion of the work of the injection and barrier manufacturing facility tunnel and building investment and the spillway is also currently completing the implementation of hardcore Albulast and texture rock the body of the dam, which consists of a nucleus Gdharyh, filters, and a block of stone from Mjlobac the river, indicating that it was the implementation of all business in the facility Tower socket irrigation, roads, investment in the general location of the road except the hyphen between the junction and the village of Ain Ghazal high length of 7 km is under implementation.

And consists of the dam in accordance with the project manager of the nucleus Gdharyh and filters sand and natural prisms of Albalast addition to the cladding stone for two reasons the front and back, pointing out that the length of the body of the dam of 806 meters and display the top 12 meters The width of the asphalt road to the summit stands at 8 meters while the height of the dam up to 5.62 m versus 132 m level is also established that the size of the natural storage of the lake when the alleged 140 million cubic meters while the storage area of ​​the Lake 5 kilometers.

And facilities that follow the dam explained work they are undertaking, died of conversion and includes a channel approaching dirt exposed length of 410 meters and a sectional trapezoidal and view from the bottom of 10 meters as well as he complained, the entrance to the tunnel length of 45 meters and exit the tunnel length of 52 meters and a channel for transfer of a length of 417 meters linking facility exit tunnel course of the river and includes a lateral spillway is open channel located on the right shoulder of the body of the dam, pointing to the full implementation of the business in the spillway according to the book of conditions and technical specifications required.

The project also follows the floors with an area of ​​550 square meters per floor and a total cost of 10.3 million pounds. The manager of the project to the existence of an investment by the length of 11 kilometers to serve the body of the dam and its facilities with villages and communities in ways that alternative as opposed to roads now invested with the dredging and reclamation for the body of the dam.

And the work that the technical equipment of quality in the project task is to protect the mass body of the dam and monitor conditions such as Alhbutat leaks or other problems as well as a standards leak water and devices installed in the back of the dam to measure the amount of leakage in addition to devices other vehicle in the center of the dam measure Alandziahat horizontal and vertical stressing that these devices is sufficient if the accident was the dam of any emergency due to its size and storage of 140 million cubic meters annually.

It is expected to be completed in the work of the main dam at the end of next year to keep the outlet of the irrigation tower, which will be completed from the upper pending the completion of the tunnel closure conversion.