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Construction work on Mohmand Dam in full swing: Chairman WAPDA
The project's primary goals include water storage for agriculture, flood management, water delivery to Peshawar for urban use, and environmentally friendly, clean, and reasonably priced hydel power generating.
Lahore: Chairman WAPDA Engr Lt Gen Sajjad Ghani (r) visited Mohmand Dam Project’s all key sites, including diversion scheme of the project, which will be completed during upcoming low-flow season to divert River Swat.
The Chairman of WAPDA conducted a thorough evaluation of construction operations, paying special attention to the concrete work on the spillway's upper stilling basin, the excavation and support of the intake portal, and the concrete lining of the diversion tunnels.
Further the chairman instructed the project management to increase their efforts in order to divert the River Swat as planned during the approaching low-flow season.
In order to avoid any negative effects of floods on the project, he also advised the contractors to take all necessary precautions for safeguarding the crucial building sites, notably the diversion tunnels in high-flow season.
Activities on part of the contractors relating to availability and stock piling of rock-fill material for the main dam need to be expedited as well, the Chairman further directed.
He urged the project team to squeeze the timelines for completion of the project.
In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Mohmand District, WAPDA is building the multipurpose Mohmand Dam Project across the River Swat.
The project's primary goals include water storage for agriculture, flood management, water delivery to Peshawar for urban use, and environmentally friendly, clean, and reasonably priced hydel power generating.
Completion of the project is schedule for 2026-27. Mohmand Dam will store 1.29 MAF of water to irrigate 18,237 acres of new land in Mohmand and Charsadda and supplement irrigation supplies to 160,000 acres of existing land.
The project has an installed power capacity of 800 MW with annual energy generation of 2.86 billion units of electricity. It will also provide 300 million gallons of water per day to Peshawar for drinking purpose.
The project will yield annual benefits to the tune of Rs. 51.6 billion.