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Year Dam First Mooted: 1994
Type of Dam: A zoned earthfill embankment
Length: 2 600 metres
Height: 48,2 metres
Catchment: Nora and Nyaguwe rivers in Goromonzi
Initial Contract Value: US$108 million
Year Contract signed: 2021
Year Construction started: 2021
Expected Year of Commissioning: 2026
Contractor: China Nanchang Engineering
Implementing Agency: Zinwa
Progress to date
- Excavation of main dam now 6 percent
- Embankment placing of main dam 5 percent
- Construction of site roads 35 percent
- Site establishment is at 55 percent
- Mobilisation at 85 percent
. Overall progress is 26 percent as of February 26, 2023
Benefits
- i) Harare, Chitungwiza and Ruwa water supply
- ii) Irrigation water for local communities
iii) Fisheries
- iv) Tourism
- v) Electricity generation
- vi) Livestock to get drinking water
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