Vedi Water Reservoir construction launched in Armenia
29.03.2017,
11:41
Serzh Sargsyan, Armenian president, traveled Tuesday to the country’s Ararat province to attend the ceremony of laying a foundation for Vedi Water Reservoir.
YEREVAN, March 29. /ARKA/. Serzh Sargsyan, Armenian president, traveled Tuesday to the country’s Ararat province to attend the ceremony of laying a foundation for Vedi Water Reservoir.
The officials who were present at the ceremony expressed hope that the beginning of the construction of the first water reservoir since Armenia became independent in 1991 will lay groundwork for development of the sector and that results will be seen three or four years later.
Specialists say 29.4 million cubic meters of water can be kept in this reservoir. The reservoir will be filled from Vedi and Khosrov rivers. Two levees are planned to be built here.
The program implementation is estimated to cost €90 million. The financial resources will come from the French Development Agency with the Armenian government co-financing.
The water reservoir will ensure irrigation of 7,500 hectares of land in Ararat Valley and will also contribute to restoration of environmental balance in Lake Sevan.
The water reservoir has been designed by France’s ARTELIA EAU & ENVIRONMENT and Belgium’s SHER Ingenieurs-Conseils in cooperation with Jrtuk LLC. The builders of the water reservoir are Armenia’s Sahakyanshin and Iran’s Pega Construction. The construction of the levees and supporting infrastructures was launched in March 2017 and is expected to be completed in March 2021.
Sargsyan was informed that some 250 new jobs with an average salary of 220,000 or 250,000 ($455-517) will be created here.
The foundation-laying ceremony was also attended by Vachge Gabrielyan, minister of international economic integration and reforms, as well as the provincial governor, the head of the Water Committee, the French and Iranian ambassadors, the head of the French Development Agency’s office for the South Caucasus, and other officials. --0---
The officials who were present at the ceremony expressed hope that the beginning of the construction of the first water reservoir since Armenia became independent in 1991 will lay groundwork for development of the sector and that results will be seen three or four years later.
Specialists say 29.4 million cubic meters of water can be kept in this reservoir. The reservoir will be filled from Vedi and Khosrov rivers. Two levees are planned to be built here.
The program implementation is estimated to cost €90 million. The financial resources will come from the French Development Agency with the Armenian government co-financing.
The water reservoir will ensure irrigation of 7,500 hectares of land in Ararat Valley and will also contribute to restoration of environmental balance in Lake Sevan.
The water reservoir has been designed by France’s ARTELIA EAU & ENVIRONMENT and Belgium’s SHER Ingenieurs-Conseils in cooperation with Jrtuk LLC. The builders of the water reservoir are Armenia’s Sahakyanshin and Iran’s Pega Construction. The construction of the levees and supporting infrastructures was launched in March 2017 and is expected to be completed in March 2021.
Sargsyan was informed that some 250 new jobs with an average salary of 220,000 or 250,000 ($455-517) will be created here.
The foundation-laying ceremony was also attended by Vachge Gabrielyan, minister of international economic integration and reforms, as well as the provincial governor, the head of the Water Committee, the French and Iranian ambassadors, the head of the French Development Agency’s office for the South Caucasus, and other officials. --0---
