Maintenance works for Euphrates Dam
Euphrates dam is the biggest dam in syria and booking behind him the dam lake which is the largest freshwater bodies in syria , The dam has significant economic benefit in generating electricity, watering land and providing fish wealth.
This dam was exposed to some dangers during the rule of Daesh for the region from the destruction of some its parts, especially electric wire.
In this regard, Mohammed Sheikho, head of dams management in Tabqa city, told us about the dam and the maintenance work they carried out:
” directly ,after the process of liberation, we examined the dam in general, and the percentage of destruction is very large, where it was destroyed systematically, and a number of floors were submerged in water, and we stayed for a month for emptied this water, and after emptying we went to maintenance of turbines.
We started the third turbine maintenance by the efforts of the dam workers and the technicians. The work continued for two months at night and day, and at first we took off mechanically and after that period the electricity was generated. The same system was activated and we reactivated the first, fifth and eighth turbines and connected them to the electricity grid. The difficulty is beyond our control, and now we are working on activating the seventh.
The dam returned to work, thanks to the tremendous efforts and the limited capabilities that we, the dam workers and the technicians have done to secure materials, pieces and cables.
We have two operational groups, the first and the third, and we connected them to the grid to connect the electricity to the Island province. In the Hurriya Dam we had the same problem. There are three turbines, one is out of service and two are operational. Today the third turbine will return to work and will be connected to the electricity grid.
And there is a big problem is the lack of lake water and the low level of three meters, because Turkey booking of water, where we do not connect to the internationally recognized rate, the water from 400 to 500 cubic meters of water and comes only 200, and this is not enough to generate or pass the course of the river because these 200 must pass to Iraq, and this is contrary of international conventions, because it negatively affects the farmers and owners of land and electricity generation, and we are coming to the summer where the rate of evaporation is large, and if not get the conventional rate of 400 to 500 meters will be very dangerous, so we demand to ride to abide by the agreements internationally recognized for bridge the Euphrates to ward off many of the dangers that would result from the lack of water level and the dam will come out only for the service ”.
SDF,Media center
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