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Capacity: 100 million cubic meters
Year Mooted: 1986
Year Contract signed: 2005
Year Construction started: 2005
Year Construction Stopped: 2008
Year Construction Resumed: 2018
Contract Value: US$132 384 085. 50
Contractor: China Jiangxi International Technical and Economic Corporation
Implementing Agency: Zimbabwe National Water Authority
Progress to date
• Engineer’s site establishment is at 90 percent
• Contractor`s site establishment is at 95 percent
• Clearing and stripping on the main dam core trench is at 90 percent
• Excavations on the inlet and outlet section is at 70 percent
• Opening of borrow areas (clearing and stripping) is at 6 percent
• Construction of coffer dam is at 85 percent
• Drilling and blasting for the cut-off (main dam) is at 75 percent
Overall Progress: 38 percent
Scope of works
• Construction of a conventional earth-fill dam with a height of 44 metres
• Three saddle dams
• 150-metre long spillway
• Bulk water treatment works and pipeline
Benefits
• Bindura water supply
• Irrigation (2 500 hectares)
• Fisheries
• Tourism
•Water for livestock and other communal needs
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