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KIRKUK IRRIGATION SYSTEM - Iraq

Construction information


Main Designer: SOGREAH (for preliminary design. Each and every Sub-contractor prepared its own design for its part of the Contract Works under the supervision of SOGREAH
Consultant: SOGREAH - Grenoble, France 
Employer: Ministry for Agriculture through General Directorate for Irrigation Works and Drainage
Main Contractor: "Ivan Milutinovic" - PIM
Nominated Sub-contractors: Bhasin Associates Ltd., New Delhi,  India (civil engineering works), Dyckerhoff and Widmann Ag., Munich, Germany ("Dywidag"), "Rade Koncar" (electrical equipment, "Litostroj" (mechanical equipment) "Vodoterma" (airconditioning)
Purpose of the Project: Irrigation and Water Supply 
Years of Construction: 1981-1986
  

Project information

 

BUILDING of three pumping stations SSI, SSIII, SSX with complete delivery and installation of electrical and electromechanical equipment. Manufacture and assembly of the pipeline in the length 33 km, with the pipes of pre-stressed concrete dia from 1,200 to 1,800 mm. This included the drainage pipeline which fitted in the irrigation system KIPA. 

§ KIPA-KIRKUK project is a part of grand-scale irrigation project. 

§ The basic purpose of the system is: 1. river regulation, 2. land irrigation, 3. supply drinking water to settlements.

§ The project comprises the irrigation of 100,000 ha of agricultural land. The necessary water is provided by combined concrete arch dam and soil-filled dam. Downstream from the dam a canal was built with the purpose to dewater the accumulation to the distance up to 100 km. Differences of levels were surmounted by a series of pumping stations. By pipes and pumps water is distributed to the nearby fields. The system of pipes was manufactured according to SENTAP technology, under the Swedish licence by the experts of "Dywidag", Germany. The remaining water is used for supply of drinking water to the town of Kirkuk.
              

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