Ukraine completed the construction of a dam on the border with Crimea and finally cut off the peninsula from water from the Dnieper
Ukraine has completed construction of a new dam on the North Crimean Canal on the border with the peninsula.
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TSN reports this.
The stationary concrete dam reportedly “finally cut off the arid Crimea from the Dnieper water.”
Thanks to the dam, lands in the south of the Kherson region will be fully irrigated, TSN points out.
“If the canal were blocked several tens of kilometers before the administrative border, where there is the last permanent dam, farms to the south would be under threat of drought. Therefore, water was released there under less pressure, and farmers built a dam using sandbags on their own. Now, not a temporary, but a full-fledged solution to the problem has been found,” notes the Ukrainian news program.
The new dam has a sluice that can be opened at any time. In this regard, according to the authors of the story, if Crimea returns to Ukraine, another 300 kilometers of the canal will be filled with water.
It is also indicated that the dam was built in a year, spending 35 million hryvnia on the project. Construction work will continue. “The first stage is completed. The continuation is the creation of infrastructure. Winches, duty rooms, security,” explained Vladimir Oberemok, chief engineer of the North Crimean Canal Department.
In 2014, after Crimea became part of Russia, Kyiv began to close the locks of the canal through which water from the Dnieper flowed to the peninsula. At that time, about 80 percent of Crimea’s resource needs were met through this waterway. The region began to use internal sources of drinking and technical water supply. At the same time, the part of the North Crimean Canal lying on the territory of the peninsula was used to supply water from local sources.
The North Crimean Canal is an irrigation and water supply canal built in 1961-1971 to provide water to the arid territories of the Kherson and Crimean regions of the Ukrainian SSR. Water is taken from the Kakhovka reservoir, which was filled in the 50s in the lower reaches of the Dnieper.