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Currently, 38.61 percent of the overall Project is completed |
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Camps for Employer/ Employer Representative, Contractors Expatriate camps and local staff's camps are completed. Air strip, Clinics, canteens, bars and other social service centers for the staffs are completed. Site logistic installations such as workshops laboratories, stores, batching plants, crushing plants and other important equipments are in place. |
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Diversion Tunnels
Excavation and lining works of the three diversion tunnels are completed and the dry season flow of Omo River is diverted through the center tunnel on January 20, 2009. At present, the Omo River flow passes through the three diversion tunnels and the area of the dam foundation and powerhouse is fee of water.. |
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Construction of upstream and downstream preliminary pre-cofferdams and embankment Construction of main Cofferdam is completed. 8,000 m3 of clay material has been stockpiled for the downstream cofferdam. Excavation of cutoff for downstream cofferdam is completed and 17,000m3 (14 percent) of filling of the downstream cofferdam has achieved to date. Reinforcing the downstream pre-cofferdam is underway. This activity is on progress since on January 2010 again. |
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Main Dam excavation from Right and left Bank abutment is in progress. So far, 1.06M m3 (62.6%) of the excavation work is completed. Excavation of Four drainage and grouting galleries at the Right Abutment at El 820, 780, 740 and 700 and one at left Abutment at El 820 is completed. Excavation and stockpiling of materials for the RCC dam construction continued. The volume of alluvium materials piled so far is estimated to be 3.1 million m3. Plants and machineries for RCC Dam construction are under shipment and transportion to site. |
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Power house area clearing and excavation is in progress. To date, approximately 572,200m 3 (72.8%) has been excavated. |
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Power Waterways
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• Upper and Lower Temporary Access Tunnels (adits) excavation has been completed. • Right surge shaft yard excavation has been completed and access road to left surge shaft is in progress. The excavation at the Power Intake is continued and to date, approximately 47% has been excavated . |
Second phase of RCC trial mix tests for the main dam is in progress. RCC trail mix tests on different types and brands of cement are in progress. According to the results Pozolana Portland Cement (PPC) is found to be the best type of cement for RCC Dam construction. |
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About 135 km long access roads inside the site are constructed. The Omo downstream Permanent bridge work is 100 % completed and it was opened for Light vehicles traffic on Sep 06, 2009 . The request for approval of reduction of the right of way of the road from 30 to 20 m is approved by Ethiopian Roads Authority (ERA) in order to reduce the impact of the road. Currently, the consultants has completed the rechecking of the impacts in the 20m corridor and submitted the review of the final resettlement and compensation plan. |
Hydromechanical and Electromechanical works |
• Contract for the Electro mechanical and Hydro mechanical works have been signed on May 12, 2010 with DEC (Dongfang Electric International Corporation) of China at a cost of USD 340,727,870.30 plus ETB 486,627,544.37 and USD 105,227,709.12 plus ETB 150,919,918.81 respectively. The total contract price for both the Electro mechanical and Hydro mechanical works in USD is 495,506,199.56 • The contractor ,DEC has arranged the financing from Industrial and Commericial Bank of china(ICBC)
And EEPCO has signed a mandate letter with the bank, ICBC on May 12, 2010 |
Transmission Line (GIII To Wolaita-Sodo Substation) |
The contract for Gibe III to Wolaita-Sodo Substation Transmission Line was signed on July 24, 2009 with the Chinese company TBEA Co.Ltd |
| Environmental And Social Studies | • All ESIA related studies are completed. All the final ESIA and RAP reports are posted on EEPCo's Website as of March 5, 2009. Final report for archeological study has been submitted. The establishment of an office for the Environmental and Social monitoring and management sub process team at project level is completed. Preparation of project- based website is Completed. A mediation between the African Development Bank and Friends of Lake Turkana (FOLT) has been conducted on June 10 and 11, 2009, in Nairobi and the AfDB representatives have briefed EEPCo's management on the outcome. The FOLT has requested the bank for further studies to be conducted on the project, especially hydrological studies and public consultation on the Kenyan side. The Bank has accepted the request and engaged in finding consultants for the study. • The first meeting of the Environmental Advisory panel has been held on 10 july 2008 and the members have received electronic copies of the ESIA studies documents. The Advisory panel members have conducted the first site visit from 31 st July 2009 to 02 August 2009 and held a meeting during the site visit. The EAP has been conducting a number of meetings and has prepared action plan for the Panel. • Establishment of the Environmental and Social monitoring and Management Implementation Unit in Addis Ababa, at site and at Jinka Town(SNNP). • Additional Public consultation has been done on December 2009 to February 2010 with upstream and downstream communities. |
General |
A joint mission from the AfDB, EIB and World Bank were in Ethiopia from October 10-20, 2009. The missions had visited the project site and consult the downstream communities. The missions also held different meetings with EEPCo and participated in the EFTA study Workshop conducted on oct-19-2009. |
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