100th anniversary gift from DSI to the city of Şeyhzadeler Manisa. Gürduk Martyr Infantry Lieutenant Lieutenant Osman Alp Dam, which will supply 6 million 130 thousand cubic meters of drinking and utility water per year to the city center, will begin body filling works at the end of the year, and the project will be completed in 100, the 2023th anniversary of our Republic.
Gürduk Martyr Infantry Lieutenant Osman Alp Dam, which will solve the drinking water problem of Manisa city center to a large extent, will also provide lifeline to 7 decares of land in the Akhisar Plain.
Explaining that the work continues on the Gürduk Martyr Infantry Lieutenant Osman Alp Dam, which was built on Akhisar Sand Stream, DSI General Manager Kaya Yıldız said, "Slurry Trench, Spillway and Cofferdam filling has been completed so far in the construction of the dam. In the dam, where a physical realization rate of 38 percent was reached, body scraping excavations and injection productions were started. Our goal is to start body filling in 2021. The dam, whose body is designed as Clay Core Homogeneous Fill type, will be 40 meters high from the foundation. 960 million 33 thousand cubic meters of water will be retained in the dam, whose body will be filled with 390 thousand cubic meters. 'said.
The farmer from Manisa will earn 12 million liras more per year
General Manager Yıldız, underlined that the dam, which will provide an average of 70 million 6 thousand m130 of drinking and utility water annually to the city center of Manisa with its 3 km transmission line, will also introduce modern irrigation to 7 decares of fertile agricultural land in the Akhisar Plain, and once the project is completed, it will contribute to the regional economy He said that it is aimed to provide an additional income of 710 million lira per year.