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Saturday, June 10, 2017
US firm in 1968 recommended construction of 6 dams to prevent floods and landslides here
by Ajith Alahakoon and Kushan Subasinghe-June 9, 2017, 10:44 pm
A US engineering company had warned 49 years ago that Sri Lanka would
continue to suffer from floods and landslides till it constructed six
dams across three main rivers, Home Affairs Minister Vajira Abeywardena
said yesterday.
He told The Island that he had requested the government to implement the
proposal by the US company to erect six dams at several places of the
rivers Kalu, Gin and Nilvala, so that the country would be free from
floods threat.
The Colorado based ECI Engineering Consultants Company in a feasibility
study done for the Agriculture, Irrigation, Lands and Power Ministry
warned that there could be landslides and floods. The report had called
for timely action to control the three rivers and otherwise predicted
floods and landslides, the minister said.
