ASSOUAN DAM
£3,000,000 SCHEME TO . HEIGHTEN BARRAGE IRRIGATION* ADVANTAGES British Official Wireless RUGBY, Thursday. The Egyptian Government has decided to proceed with a scheme for heightening the barrage of the great Assouan dam in Middle Egypt and has invited Sir Murdoch Macdonald, sometime adviser and Under-Secretary for State for Public Works in Egypt, who has been identified with the irrigation development in Egypt and the Sudan, to act as consulting engineer. It is stated that the cost of heightening the dam by 23ft will be approximately £3,800,000, and that other proposals for engineering works in Egypt, as well as enterprises in AngloEgyptian Sudan to regulate Uje flow of the Blue and White Niles, are under consideration. The Assouan dam, which was originally 120 ft high, was completed in 1902. Owing to the growing demand for impounding more water, it was raised 23ft, this work being completed in 3912. Experts having advised that the dam could be further raised with perfect safety, new works have now been decided upon. The new extension will givei the reservoir a total capacity of 4.800,000,000 tons. An immense further stimulus to cotton growing is expected as a result of the work.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 584, 9 February 1929, Page 9
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196ASSOUAN DAM Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 584, 9 February 1929, Page 9
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