The first dam in Tanzania is being built, according to the Egyptian partnership, which also includes Arab Contractors and El Sewedy Electric.
In the presence of senior representatives of the Tanzanian company for the supply of electricity to the royal for the project, the Egyptian coalition claimed that it celebrated yesterday the completion of pouring the final cube of compacted concrete RCC in the body of the main dam in Tanzania, and thus the completion of the construction work of the main dam, which lasted over 687 days since the diversion of the river on November 18, 2020.
According to the Egyptian Minister of Housing, Assem Al-Jazzar, the Egyptian coalition has started preparing to start holding back water from the Ruvichi River behind the dam, which is expected to last for about two months (based on flood predictions for the current year). The preparations include finishing the installations and testing of gates.
After the start of extremely precise engineering procedures to close a tunnel, a massive water drainage system on three levels in the body of the dam will control the minimum amount of water needed to maintain the riverine environment below the dam as well as the discharge of excess water in floods and other emergency situations. The river’s channel was changed to begin filling the lake, which will eventually cover an area of around 158 thousand square kilometres and have a 32-person capacity.
7 billion cubic metres, with a 34 billion cubic metre maximum.
According to the report from the Minister of Housing, the Egyptian alliance will have successfully finished pouring one million 450 cubic metres of compacted concrete RCC at rates that will raise the main dam to a height of 190 metres above sea level on a base of roughly 20 thousand square metres and a length of up to 1033 metres at the top. Eight thousand cubic metres were produced daily, in addition to around three hundred and twenty thousand cubic metres of CVC concrete, for the main dam’s construction, which involved 2500 engineers and labourers and 22 million hours of labour.
The installation and testing of the nine hydroelectric generating units will be completed sequentially as of next year, realising a Tanzanian dream that began in the 1960s and achieving the project’s objectives of achieving sustainable development at the national level in the United Republic of Tanzania. He emphasised that the project is progressing successfully despite many natural obstacles.
“Where it will allow controlling the floods that have killed thousands of people, mostly children, in Tanzania in recent years, and will allow reducing the formation of seasonal swamps, which are the main cause of the spread of dangerous diseases, in addition to sustaining the water disposal necessary for agriculture and river fishing activities,” the report states.
The Julius Nyerere Hydroelectric Generating Station and Dam project, with a total capacity of 2. 115 megawatts in the Stigler depression on the Ruvichi River, was designed and implemented by the Egyptian consortium under the terms of an international tender proposed by the government of the United Republic of Tanzania in favour of the Tanzanian Electricity Supply Company.
The project contract, worth $2. 9 billion, was signed on December 12, 2018, in Dar es Salaam, in the presence of Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly and the late Tanzanian President and Vice President (the current Tanzanian President). The offer of the Egyptian alliance was chosen as the best technical and financial offer.
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Egypt announces progress on a massive dam being built in an African nation
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