Waterworks for Kryvy Rih: "Automagistral-South" launched first thread. PHOTOS
Kryvyi Rih started receiving water from the Inhulets River. The first line of the water supply system was launched in test mode.
This was reported by Censor.NET.
Construction began in June this year after the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station was blown up. As a result of the shallowing of the Kakhovka reservoir, water stopped flowing into the Pivdenne reservoir, and Kryvyi Rih was left without water supply. Residents receive water on a scheduled basis - four hours a day.
Avtomagistral-South, Ukraine's largest infrastructure construction company, has started building a new water pipeline. Four pipelines are to connect the Pivdenne Reservoir with the Ingulets River.
The new water supply system is designed to supply 400,000 m3 of water per day. The total length of the pipelines is 118 km.
"The pace and scale of work is incredible. More than 150 units of equipment and over 235 workers are involved in the construction around the clock.
This is the most ambitious water supply project in all the years of Ukraine's independence. In terms of implementation, it has no analogues at all. What usually takes years to complete, we are implementing in a matter of months," says Mykola Tymofeev, CEO of Avtomagistral-Pivden.
A giant trench 13 metres wide and 2.5 metres high is being excavated for the installation of four pipelines with a diameter of 1-1.2 metres. In total, this is more than half a million cubic metres of soil. To build the water intake, the Ingults riverbed had to be shifted, creating a three hundred-metre temporary channel.
At the first stage, water will be supplied through a water pipeline to an irrigation canal that the company has cleared of silt, trees and shrubs. In the second stage, the canal will also be replaced with pipelines, and water from Ingults will flow directly to the reservoir.
A kilometre of pipe is added to the average motorway every day. The process involves not only connecting pipes, but also compacting the soil and filling in a sand cushion.
More than 32 km of pipes have been laid so far, says Nikolay Timofeev. The first line is ready and is operating in test mode. Water has started flowing from Ingulets to Kryvyi Rih.
The water supply project also envisages the creation of three pumping stations, each with six pumps with a capacity of 1200 m3 per hour. Two powerful transformer power substations are being installed to power the pumps.
As a reminder, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that "the authorities at all levels are doing everything to save people and provide drinking water to those who received it from the Kakhovka reservoir.
Kakhovka Reservoir. Kryvyi Rih and the entire Dnipro region, cities and villages of Kherson, Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia regions - no matter how difficult it is, we must help people," the President noted.
