ASSOUAN DAM
DEVELOPMENT SCHEM E. BARRIER TO RE RAISED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Feb. 7. The Egyptian Government has decided to proceed with a scheme for heightening the barrage of the great Assouan Dam, in the middle of Eygpt and has invited Sir Murdoch Macdonald, who was once an adviser and under-secretary identified with irrigation development in Egypt and tho Sudan, to act as consulting engineer for the scheme. it is stated that.the cost of heightening by twenty-three feet will he approximately £3,8900,000, and that other proposals for engineering works in Egypt, as well as enterprises in the Anglo-Egvptian Sudan, to regulate the flow of the Blue, and White Niles, are under consideration. The Assouan Dam, which was origin ally 120 feet high, was completed in 1902. Owing to the gowiug demand for impounding more water, it was raised twenty-three feet, this work being completed in 1912. Experts having advised that it- could bo further raised with perfect safety. the new works have now been decided upon The new extension will give the reservoir a total capacity of 4,800,000,000 tons, and an immense further stimulus to cotton growing is expected.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1929, Page 3
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