The Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) plans to redirect the Swat River at the Mohmand Dam, which is currently under construction, in April of this year. The project’s diversion system is gradually being completed in line with the schedule.
On Tuesday, Wapda Chairman Engineer Lt-Gen (retd) Sajjad Ghani paid a visit to the Mohmand Dam construction site in the Mohmand area of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. He examined the spillway, diversion tunnels, and power house.
As of right now, twelve locations are still under development, according to a news release from the authority. In addition, the chairman chaired a progress assessment meeting at the project office where he was briefed on the diversion scheme, slope excavation, and concrete and slope stabilization at the spillway.
A briefing was also given to the meeting regarding the power house support works, the irrigation tunnel excavation, the building of structures over the irrigation canals, and the completion of the permanent access roads on the left and right sides of the river.
The gathering was informed that the personnel and offices had been permanently relocated to the recently built project area facilities, with additional staff space to be occupied by a few completed buildings.
The news statement stated that the Wapda chairman, stressing the importance of the dam’s prompt completion, ordered the deployment of extra resources to speed up the activities related to quarry development for the project.
The multipurpose Mohmand Dam is expected to be finished in 2026. It would store water for agricultural use, manage floods, send water to Peshawar for urban use, and produce clean, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly hydel energy.
In order to irrigate 18,237 acres of additional land in Mohmand and Charsadda and augment irrigation supplies to 160,000 acres of existing land, the project would store 1.29 million acre feet of water. With an installed power capacity of 800 megawatts, it generates 2.86 billion units of energy annually.
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