North Crimean Canal

The North- Crimean channel (Ukrainian Північно - Кримський канал; Russian Северо - Крымский канал ) is a 402.6 km long canal in the south of Ukraine and is used for irrigation of the Crimea.

Course

The North- Crimean channel starts at Nowa Kachowka in the Kherson Oblast on accumulated for Kachowkaer reservoir Dnepr, then passes through the south of the Kherson Oblast and across the Isthmus of Perekop, then through the north of the Crimea on Sowjetskyj up to Kerch in the eastern Peninsula.

Use

The channel has a maximum capacity of 380 m³ / sec and conducts every year more than 1.2 billion cubic meters of water from the Dnieper to the Crimea, which corresponds to 85% of the total water consumption of the local population. Through the construction of the canal over 270,000 hectares were the - to be watered until then water-poor steppe - due to low rainfall.

Further inland, the Crimea, the water supply is taken over by the channel of Krasnohwardijske which branches at Dschankoj and diverts water to the west of the peninsula. The total power of the channel system has a length of 1500 km and is the largest and most complex irrigation system in Europe.

History

The construction of the canal began in 1961. 1963 he has already led to water after Krasnoperekopsk in the north and 1965 to the city Dschankoj in the center of the Crimea. In 1971, the city of Kerch was achieved and in December 1976 the canal was officially put into operation.