Wuluwati Dam

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The Wuluwati Dam ( Chinese乌鲁瓦提 水利 风景区) is a large dam on the river Karakax (also called Karakashi or Karakax He [A 1] ) in Xinjiang in western China. It is located 71 km from the town of Hetian located in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region.

The reservoir, irrigation, power generation, flood control, water supply and biological aspects serves. He is one of the most important projects in the region ( " Wuluwati Key Water Conservancy Project") and included in the Ninth Five -Year Plan of China. 75,300 hectares of land are thus better irrigated and the irrigated area is enlarged by 46,000 acres.

The shut-off is a rockfill dam with a reinforced concrete seal on the water side, a so-called "concrete face rockfill dam" ( CFRD ), a common and frequent in China construction. In 1993 the construction of the State Planning Commission was approved. On 2 July 1994 she began the construction of the power plant piping and in July 1995 the main work began on the dam. On 2 September 1997, the flow was shut off.

Components of the building include a spillway tunnel for sand and sediment discharge, a lock, pressure pipes for water power plant and a substation ( substation ). From the construction costs of 865 million yuan 340 million were paid by the central government, 335 million from the regional government and 190 million of the company.