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At a cost of more than 7 billion Syrian pounds ... Dam Faki Hassan in the Latakia countryside to improve the service, agricultural and tourism reality

2020-11-28T19:47:15.049Z


Lattakia-SANA The construction work continues to implement the Faki Hassan Dam in Al-Basit area in the Latakia countryside, which costs


Lattakia-Sana

Construction work continues to implement the Faki Hassan Dam in the Al-Basit area in the Latakia countryside, at a cost of more than 7 billion pounds, and is being implemented by the Military Housing Corporation branch workshops in cooperation with the Directorate of Water Resources, and the implementation rate has reached 65.3 percent so far.

The investment of the dam will positively affect the service, agricultural and tourism reality in the region, as it provides drinking water for the surrounding residential communities while irrigating about 300 hectares of neighboring agricultural land, according to the Director of Water Resources, Engineer Nabil Hassan, who explained to SANA's correspondent that the Directorate is conducting a complete survey of the properties that will be irrigated from The dam, in coordination with the Directorate of Agriculture and the concerned authorities, and the Drinking Water Corporation handed over the design data necessary to establish a network to secure drinking water for the surrounding residential communities to ensure the completion of all works related to the drinking and irrigation network in conjunction with the completion of the project.

He pointed out that the length of the dam at the summit is 210 meters, its height is 53.7 meters, its width at the top is 10 meters, the top of the diversion dam is about 6 meters, its total natural storage is 1,776 million cubic meters, the length of the dam lake is 1.2 km and the area of ​​the basin is about 19 square kilometers, indicating that the total value of the project added to the balance The price and the value of the annexes of the first and second contract is about 7 billion and 150 million pounds.

The dam according to Hassan is of the aggregate type consisting of a clay core, in addition to two filter layers on both sides of the core, rock burials and rock cladding, and includes a diversion dam having the same model as the main dam as it consists of a clay core, two filter layers and rock burials.

In turn, the head of the Directorate's Technical Affairs Department, Engineer Firas Haidar, indicated that the implementation work was carried out through the diversion of the river course and the implementation of the fund channel connected to the drainage of the dam with the calming basin and the attached facilities completely, after which the river course was re-diverted to the fund channel through the implementation of the diversion dam and direct implementation of the foundation of the dam. And the filling of the gland - injection and seal tiles, indicating that the work is carried out by cadres from the Directorate, the Military Housing Corporation, and a consultant staff from Tishreen University.

He also explained that the implementation procedures have been raised, especially in the work of concealment, so that the specifications are fully achieved by the project, stressing that since the start of the implementation, the dam works have been allocated with quarries for clutter and rock fillings close to the site by the directorates of tourism and agriculture to enhance the work and accelerate its pace.

And he indicated that the dam is equipped with a measuring and monitoring system during implementation and investment that was secured by the Military Housing Corporation through a contract where the first row of this system was installed and taken to be read and monitored according to the fill and rain, stressing that work is proceeding at a good pace.

Haidar pointed out that the landfill works are carried out in the summer season and stopped now after the rains due to the high moisture in the quarries, while the rock filling works are continuing, expecting the project to be implemented on the specified date, indicating that the tower and the funnel needs to pour total quantities estimated at 4,850 cubic meters. About 4000 cubic meters of them have been completed so far.

The water of Sheikh Hasan, which feeds the dam lake, is constantly renewed throughout the year, and its quality according to the analyzes conducted by the Directorate of Water Resources in its laboratories is good, and with the investment of the dam, it will give abundant irrigation water of 300 liters per second and drinking water in abundance of 70 liters per second.

 Bassam Al-Ibrahim

Source: sena

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