KARNAFULI IRRIGATION

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The Karnafuli Irrigation Project works include: Halda Unit: (a) sixteen gated regulators at the outlets of channels to the Karnafuli and Halda Rivers; (b) improvement of 41 miles of existing channels and the excavation of 6.5 miles of new channels; (d) twenty-seven relift pumping stations with a total of 71 low-lift, 2 cfs pumps; (e) about 300 low-lift, diesel-powered two cfs pumps to raise water from the channels to adjacent farm lands; (f) small earthfill channel check structures; and (g) flood protection embankments. Ichamati Unit: (a) a main pumping plant at Mahfez Channel; (b) a relift pumping plant; (c) power transmission lines to the pumping plants; (d) three gated regulators at the outlets of channels to the Karnafuli and Ichamati Rivers; (e) improvement of 16 miles of existing khals and the excavation of four miles of new channels; (f) about 70 low-lift, diesel-powered, two cfs pumps to raise water from the channels to adjacent farmlands; (g) a box culvert under the Chittagong-Kaptai Highway; (h) two channel check structures, one of them gated, and (i) flood protection embankments 12 mi long, along with an exterior diversion channel.