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DAM-L LS: High dam chosen for Son La, Vietnam (fwd)



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 >                            THE SAIGON TIMES DAILY
 >
 >                              February 16, 2001
 >
 >    HEADLINE: High dam chosen for Son La hydropower plant
 >
 >    (SGT-HCMC) The Government has decided to develop the Son La
 >    Hydroelectric Plant with a high rather than low dam, said a senior
 >    official of Electricity of Vietnam (EVN), the Ministry of Industry has
 >    confirmed the information.
 >    According to this plan, the facility will have a total capacity of
 >    3,600MW.
 >    The plan was selected after the Government held a meeting in HCMC in
 >    early February to discuss this mega-project. The Government has
 >    submitted it to the Party's Politburo for approval.
 >    Ministry of Planning and Investment figures show that the Government
 >    plan will be more viable in terms of electricity output than other
 >    plans to build a 2,400MW plant or a small plant in Son La in
 >    conjunction with another in Lai Chau.
 >    It can also control floods and regulate irrigation in downstream areas
 >    more effectively than the other two plans.
 >    Son La's reservoir will hold a total of 25 billion cubic meters of
 >    water. Together with the Hoa Binh Hydropower Plant reservoir, the
 >    water volume will total 36 billion cubic meters, enough to meet the
 >    demand in downstream areas for a long time.
 >    However, the plan for the 3,600MW facility has shown a number of
 >    flaws, such as covering a vaster area of land than the two other
 >    plans.
 >    The reservoir is estimated to cover 44,701 hectares of land, double
 >    that required by the plan for the 2,400MW plant. Therefore, 96,396
 >    people will be affected compared to 72,238 for the latter.
 >    The high-dam power plant will need a total investment of VND70,575
 >    billion, VND26,000 billion higher than that with a lower dam.


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