ISLAMABAD – Parliamentary Secretary for Water Resources Saleh MuhammadWednesday informed the National Assembly that construction work on theMohmand Dam Hydropower project, was in full swing.
Responding to specific queries during Question Hour, he said, “Constructionwork of the link roads, offices and colony buildings is in progress. About1.5 percent of construction work on Mohmand Dam Hydropower, is completedtill January 2020”.
He said “WAPDA completed the preliminary activities of geo-tech, boring,installation of river gauging station, automatic discharge measurement,weather station and construction of Ketch track to dam site, using in housecapabilities”.
He said that mobilization of the contractor, consultant and constructionactivities was in full swing which is aimed at executing work within giventimelines.
The secretary said that surface cutting and sub-grade preparationactivities, excavation and filling works were in progress. He said thatsurface excavation of project office and senior office hostel had beencompleted.
“Cutting and filing works of various projects, colony buildings i.e highschool, project office, mosque, junior offices, staff hostel, rest house,WAPDA hospital, community buildings and shopping centre playground area arein progress” he added.
He said that temporary access roads to inlet and outlet portals forconstruction of diversion tunnels had been completed while excavation forinlet and outlet structures was under process.
He said that contractor has started construction of access to query areafor preparation of dam fill material. He said that topographic survey abovewater level has been completed and hydrographic survey was in progress,while re-regulation pond excavation works were underway.
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Saleh Muhammad said that contractor has prepared temporary access road toright bank tunnel outlet structure.
Responding to another question, he said that machinery procured andinstalled in Golen Gol Hydropower project by civil, E&M and transmissionline contractor were of good standard and meet approved specifications.
He said that the machinery and equipment had been procured from theapproved vendors of international repute specified in the contractdocuments.
He said that full load testing and commissioning of all the three unitshave been performedsuccessfully, and since commissioning of the project in January 2019,performance of the units were satisfactory.
He said that quantum of water in Tarbela and Mangla reservoirs wasunprecedented as compared with previous conditions. He said that presentstorage in dams was 237 percent and 79 percent higher than the last yearand last 10 years average respectively.
