One More Dam Put into Service in My

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Subject: One More Dam Put into Service in Myanmar

One More Dam Put into Service in Myanmar

               Xinhua
               08-APR-99

               YANGON (April 9) XINHUA - One more dam, the Sitha Dam,
               has been commissioned into service in Myanmar's Mandalay
               division, bringing the total number of dams and
reservoirs
               built in the division since 1988 to 25. 

               The Sitha Dam, inaugurated on Thursday in Pyin Oo Lwin
               township of the central and arid division with the
maximum
               storage capacity of 234.69 hectare-meters, was built
within a
               year at a cost of 138 million kyats (460,000 U.S.
dollars). 

               The 295.85-meter-long and 24.4-meter-high earth dam will
               supply 4.46 million liters of water in the region and
will also
               irrigate 101.25 hectares of crop lands, official
newspaper
               The New Light of Myanmar reported Friday. 

               The report quoted Lieutenant-General Tin Oo, second
               secretary of the Myanmar State Peace and Development
               Council, as saying that though it is a small-scale
reservoir, it
               will help beautify the region and enable Pyin Oo Lwin to
               restore its name "the hill station."