Moragahakanda dam is safe - Project Director
#moragahakanda dam & reservoir in north Central province of #Srilanka.
මහවැසි හේතුවෙන් පරාක්‍රම සමුද්රය මෙන් සිව් ගුණයක්‌ සුවිශාල මොරගහකන්ද ජලාශයද මේ වනවිට පිටාර මට්ටම ආසන්නයේ පවතින බවත් ජලාශයේ දැනට අක්කර අඩි 308,020 ක ජල ප‍්‍රමාණයක් පිරී ඇති බවත් ජලාශ භාර ඉංජිනෙරුවෝ සඳහන් කරති. පවත්නා තත්ත්වය හමුවේ ජලාශයට පහල නිම්නයේ වෙසෙන ජනතාවට යම් බලපෑමක් මේ හේතුවෙන් ඇති නොවන බවත් ජලාශයේ ජල කාන්දුව සම්බන්ධයෙන් කිසිදු ආකාරයෙන් බිය විය යුතු නැතැයි තමන් යළි තහවුරු කරන බව ව්‍යාපෘති අධ්‍යක්ෂ ඩී.බී.විජේරත්ත මහතා පවසයි.
The construction of the Moragahakanda-Kaluganga මොරගහකන්ද ව්‍යාපෘතිය reservoir is the largest multi-purpose development project in Sri Lanka, completed spending Rs. 23 billion. It's one of the last major multi-purpose including hydropower dams built in the country. It adds 25 MW of electricity to the grid, control floods in north & East, asst. agri dev in north & East of the country. President Maithripala Sirisena on Tuesday assured that there was no cash crunch in the Government, nor lack of support from multilateral donors to fund much-needed and multi-faceted development projects.
This declaration by President Sirisena was during a meeting with editors and heads of electronic media, to announce the launch of the second phase of the Rs. 23 billion worth Moragahakanda-Kaluganga reservoir tomorrow in the North-Western Province. With the completion of the Moragahakanda reservoir, the Five Mega Reservoirs under the Mahaweli program concluded after four decades since Mahaweli water was first diverted to Rajarata from Polgolla on 8 January 1976. Water from the Moragahakanda reservoir will primarily be used to support agricultural needs in an area of more than 300,000 acres, benefiting 1.5 million families while also supplying clean drinking water to 300,000 families.
The Moragahakanda Dam is a high gravity dam built to a height of 65 metres. The dam has created the Moragahakanda Reservoir, which has an active storage capacity of 521,000,000 m3, and is four times bigger than the massive Parakrama Samudraya in Polonnaruwa.
As part of the project is to provide safe drinking water, as well as supplying water for irrigation for those in the North-Western Province via the Matale-Kurunegala link, the launch of second phase tomorrow will enable irrigation of 12,500 hectares and the development of eight large-scale tanks and 353 small-scale tanks. The project will provide direct dividends to 13,500 farmer families, and indirect benefits to another 80,000 farmer families.
Even though various irrigation projects were implemented in the country, the people living in the Wayamba Province faced many difficulties, as all the Government’s power failed to provide a solution for their water issue. The living standard of the people in the region decreased as the farmers suffered from a severe shortage of water for their cultivation activities, and the clean drinking water shortage led to the proliferation of kidney diseases in the region.
In 2016, the Wayamba Ela project launched under the guidance of the President, with the aim of providing a solution for the shortage of water for irrigation of cultivation lands in both seasons, without any shortage.
The second phase also involves moving water from the Mahaweli River of the Eastern province towards the Northern region. The surplus water of Nalanda reservoir is being turned towards Wamadilla reservoir. Under the first stage, it is expected to provide infrastructure to carry this water towards the Wamadilla project and Devahuwa reservoir, and to carry water of the Mahaweli Canal and the Nalanda reservoir to the Kurunegala district.
Under the second stage, it is expected to build facilities and infrastructure to construct canals to channel water from the Kurunegala district towards the small river systems of Polpithigama, Ahatuwewa, Galgamuwa and Mahawa, to send the water of the Mahaweli River carried towards Bowaththenna reservoir towards Dambululu Oya, and to channel this water towards the canal systems built in the first stage.
Under the mega plan to renovate 2400 tanks in the rural areas under the Ellanga system, the reconstruction of 353 tanks of the North-Western province will also commence under the patronage of the President.
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