EcoLur
The State Committee on Water Industry of Territorial Administration Ministry has responded to the problem with dismantling not used water pipelines in Azatek community, Vayots Dzor Region, and the community concerns with this issue.
Reminder: Azatek residents expressed their concerns that the State Committee on Water Industry has put the pipelines constructed in their village territory in the USSR period for auction. They demand to use these pipes for the construction of a new pipeline and to solve their problem with water. In their message sent to EcoLur the State Committee on Water Industry says, “The purpose of dismantling pipelines is the implementation of another urgent project in another section of the irrigation system: the project plans to dismantle metallic pipes of different sizes from non-operating pumping station in Azatek community, Vayots Dzor Region, to transfer them and to use in the rehabilitation of Araks N2 pumping station in Haykashen community, Armavir Region, and the reconstruction of Haykashen pumping station.”
These urgent projects should be implemented in the basin of Sevjur River: as it’s known this river has almost dried up and over 8000 ha in Ararat Valley turned out to be exposed to lack of water. The projects of both pumping stations are included in the governmental resolution, “Proper contracts have been concluded to implement the construction, all the documents are available, including Azatek community head’s permission to dismantle the pipeline.
Summarizing the information, we would like to assure once again that the dismantled pipeline is the property of the irrigation system and it won’t be used for any other purposes but irrigation.
What about the irrigation problem in Azatek, we would like to inform that the land areas in Azatek community are irrigated with the waterline getting supply from Pori basin.
‘Vayq’ WUC has taken some measures to regulate this problem.
June 20, 2014 at 14:42