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...world's major reclamation projects moved a step ahead last week. Meeting in Paris, representatives of Pakistan and the World Bank finally selected the contractor who will build the giant Tarbela Dam on the Indus River in remote West Pakistan. Winner of the job, with a bid of $623 million for the eight-year project, is a consortium of French and Italian companies led by Impregilo of Milan...
...Tarbela will be the major link in a $2 billion project to provide hydroelectric power and irrigation water for 50 million people and 33 million acres of land in West Pakistan. A second dam, the Mangla, 40 miles away on the Jhelum River, was completed last year, twelve months ahead of schedule, by U.S. contractors. The two big dams, plus smaller barrage dams and 40,000 miles of large and small canals, will interconnect five rivers flowing through West Pakistan to provide one of the world's best-developed irrigation systems. In addition, Tarbela and Mangla together will ultimately...
Prestige & Necessity. To build Tarbela's 9,000-ft.-long, 470-ft-high main embankment, nearly as much earth will have to be shifted as was excavated for the Panama Canal. Four half-mile-long tunnels, each 45 ft. in diameter, must be dug through the rock of surrounding mountains to bring water into the electric generators and irrigation releases. Eventually a 50-mile reservoir will form behind the dam to provide water for crops during West Pakistan's long dry season. So much silt does the Indus carry-twice as much as the Nile at flood season...
...Atkinsons are not anxious to leave Pakistan soon. While polishing up the Mangla project, they are preparing to bid on an even larger slice of the Indus river complex: a second dam, to be built at Tarbela on the Indus for about $950 million...
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