Neckartal complete by year-end
Salini expects to complete the construction of the Neckartal Dam by the end of the year. This is according to company spokesperson, Gilles Castonguay, who recently updated Namibian Sun about the dam project.
“Our company [Salini Impregilo] expects to complete its part of the project by the end of 2017. The dam is about 50% complete while the entire project, which includes the turbine room, the intake tower and other installations, is 70% complete.”
According to him, the project team has installed amongst others an intake tower, a sleeve valve house, turbine room, stilling basin, pump station, and a pipeline.
Construction activities were split into two phases.
The first involved the construction of a temporary enclosure called a cofferdam on the left side of the river.
Standing at a height of 10 metres, it allowed workers to complete the excavations in safety, prepare the foundations of the dam, start pouring the reinforced concrete and build a diversion culvert, which allows water to flow under its structure.
The second phase will see the deviation of the river through this diversion culvert so as to allow workers to complete the job on the right side of the riverbed.
It is expected that the Neckartal Dam will harness water from the Fish River to produce energy and to create a reservoir capable of holding 857 million cubic metres of water, which will be used to irrigate 5 000 hectares of land for the agricultural development of the area.
As part of the agriculture ministry's master water plan, a pipeline will also eventually be constructed which will connect the dam to all the other dams in the country.
Construction work on the dam started in September 2013. Once complete, Neckartal will be three times the size of Hardap Dam, while its dam wall will be three stories high. Neckartal forms part of the Ministry of Water, Agriculture and Forestry's master water plan.
OGONE TLHAGE
“Our company [Salini Impregilo] expects to complete its part of the project by the end of 2017. The dam is about 50% complete while the entire project, which includes the turbine room, the intake tower and other installations, is 70% complete.”
According to him, the project team has installed amongst others an intake tower, a sleeve valve house, turbine room, stilling basin, pump station, and a pipeline.
Construction activities were split into two phases.
The first involved the construction of a temporary enclosure called a cofferdam on the left side of the river.
Standing at a height of 10 metres, it allowed workers to complete the excavations in safety, prepare the foundations of the dam, start pouring the reinforced concrete and build a diversion culvert, which allows water to flow under its structure.
The second phase will see the deviation of the river through this diversion culvert so as to allow workers to complete the job on the right side of the riverbed.
It is expected that the Neckartal Dam will harness water from the Fish River to produce energy and to create a reservoir capable of holding 857 million cubic metres of water, which will be used to irrigate 5 000 hectares of land for the agricultural development of the area.
As part of the agriculture ministry's master water plan, a pipeline will also eventually be constructed which will connect the dam to all the other dams in the country.
Construction work on the dam started in September 2013. Once complete, Neckartal will be three times the size of Hardap Dam, while its dam wall will be three stories high. Neckartal forms part of the Ministry of Water, Agriculture and Forestry's master water plan.
OGONE TLHAGE
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