Progress—The bund earth filling has been completed. The side slope of the bund, turfing, and graveling remain to be completed. The P.K. Type spillway was completed and the D/S of spillway access should be cleared to accommodate flood flow. The progress of the Causeway construction is 50%. The D/S canal works and graveling of three farm roads should be completed.
The contractor agreed to finish the balance of the work within 3 weeks. The DPD(NP) was instructed to monitor this work closely and submit the real work plan for balanced work according to the contractor's suggested work plan.
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Embaikulam
tank - Contractor - Advantis Project & engineering (Pvt) Ltd.
Progress – The bund construction and graveling of
the bund top were completed. The balance work of 4 nos. canal drops structures,
turnout structures 4 nos and 300 m canal road should be finished.
The contractor agreed to finish the balance of the
work within 3 weeks.
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Manalkulam
Tank - Contractor - Advantis Project & engineering (Pvt) Ltd.
Progress – Tank Bund – Earth work to be started. The spillway construction was stopped. Under the Sluice construction, pipes laying and headwall construction were completed, but the excavated section for pipe laying was not filled properly, creating a problem with storing the water. The contractor placed the sandbags to store the water to avoid the situation. It was not successful. The farm road was completed without providing a gravel top surface and was damaged by the floods. The contractor agreed to complete all the balance works within 2 months after finishing the monsoon rains.
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Keechukulam
tank -Contractor – Pastini Construction Material supply
Progress—The Tank construction and the Agri road were completed. The last flood damaged some sections of this road. Nearly 25 m of the LB side slope and 10 m of the road's surface were washed off. During the field visit, the contractor was instructed to construct several low-elevation road sections with 6” thick concrete to correct the road.
· Periyakulam Anicut –
Mulaitivu – Existing Anicut & LB turn out to be rehabilitated.
(Coordinate= 9.063561, 80.697526) Anicut has 02 bays with 6” planking arrangement (bay width =1.27m) The full supply height is 0.9m and proposed to provide 3 Nos. gates (with each bay 1.20m) with a lifting arrangement. It is required to protect the D/S side with a 12” bolder packed gabion-type reno mattress. Required designs and sketches were given to the DAD staff for estimation.
· Kuruvicharu Anicut –
Mulaitivu – Existing Anicut, (Coordinate = 9.123173, 80.653974)
Anicut
has 04 bays (width =2.0m), F.S.L Height is 1.8 m and RB turn- out with
2’ dia. Pipe gate.
Proposed
to provide 7 Nos. gates (1.20m bays) with a lifting arrangement. It is
required to protect the D/S side with 12’ bolder packed gabion type reno
mattress, 6m length.
Required designs and sketches were given to the DAD staff for estimation.
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Vilappukulam
Anicut – Mulaitivu – Existing Anicut, GN. Division- Palampasi
Anicut has 07 bays (width =1.2m) and 2 bays with 2’ dia. Pipe gate. F.S.L Height is 1.8 m and LB turn out with a 2’x2’ gate. Proposed to provide 7 Nos. gates (1.20m bays) with a lifting arrangement. It is required to protect the D/S side with 12’ bolder packed gabion type reno mattress, 6m length. Required designs and sketches were given to the DAD staff for estimation.
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Semmankunru
SWE Bund – Kilinochchi
Contractor – MKH Construction, SWE Bund earthwork was completed, and the Turfing part is almost completed. The other part of the bund was protected by a rubble packing layer with geotextile provided to the bund surface. Rubble packing work is not completed and it should be finished immediately. The main issue for the construction delay is the access to the bund was inundated with water.
Northern Province Steering Committee Meeting – PID(NP)
requested help for the EIA process of Mandakallaru Barrage.
Rehabilitation of road bridge in D/S of
Muthyankattu Tank – The main reason for the request is local farmers in this
area can not move during the spilling time.
Handing of the completion tanks to the Implementing Agencies – PID requested to hand over the tanks that are above 200 Acs of the irrigable area to the PID(NP). Because the mandatory power has belonged to PID.
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Recommendations
1.
Rehabilitation
works should be expedited after the monsoon situation and DPD should follow up the
balance works with close supervision. It requires a real work plan which is
obtained from the contractor.
2.
Flood
damage estimates to be prepared with consultation Implementing Agency staff and
FO. Before starting the construction, DPD should submit the estimate for PD’s
concurrence.
3.
Anicut
Estimates should be prepared immediately and submitted to the PMU for STEP
approval.
4.
DPD’s
technical staff should coordinate properly with the Implementing Agency during
the processing of contract bills in all aspects.
5.
DPD
should keep the records of low performance of contractors and shear with all
DPDS and
6. PMU to avoid selecting that type of contractor in the future.
By Eng. N.A.I.U.K.
Nissanka, Water Management and Monitoring Specialist,
PMU, CSIAP
