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Work on Daducha Dam will start in two or three weeks as Punjab government has released Rs150 million to the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO). Dam is closed to DHA Valley.
Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) has won the contract for Daducha Dam construction. The project will be completed in a period of three years.
According to the details, FWO will complete the work on Dadocha Dam at a cost of PKR 6.429 billion.
Commissioner Rawalpindi said that a site office should be set up at any suitable place to start work on the dam and the missionary should be mobilized on the spot to start the work and steps in this regard should be completed as soon as possible.
Punjab Government had start Daducha and Chahan dam to end the water shortage, both for drinking and agriculture purposes, in the Potohar region.
District administration had imposed section 4 of Land Acquisition Act 1894. More than 1640 kanals of land had been acquired under which land acquisition in Kalar Syedan and Rawalpindi has been started. Payment has been started to private owners and the process will be completed soon.
The dam will be constructed on upstream of Soan River and all the rain water from Murree and Kahuta hills will gather in the lake at Daducha village near Sihala on Kahuta Road.
As many as 10 villages including seven of Rawalpindi and three of Kahuta will come under the dam. As many as 218 houses, seven industrial and commercial units and other areas will be affected by the project.
The total storage capacity of the dam would be 60,000 acre feet, dead level storage capacity is 15,000 acre feet while live storage capacity is 45,000 acre feet.
The water inflow to the dam is 77,000 cusecs while the outflow is estimated at 42,000 cusecs.
Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa) will construct a treatment plant along with its main line to provide drinking water to the city of Rawalpindi from Daducha Dam.
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