UPPER EGYPT DRAINAGE II

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The Second Upper Egypt Drainage Project works will include: (a) installation of about 50,000 km of buried field drains of PVC corrugated pipes and 6,000 km of buried field collectors of cement pipes in the selected areas totalling 500,000 feddans; (b) deepening and widening of about 1,226 km of existing, and excavation of about 346 km of new open drains, involving approximately 23 million cubic meters of excavation; (c) construction of one pumping station of a capacity of 3.5 cubic meters per second, including transmission line; (d) reclamation by leaching of about 12,000 feddans of saline soils distributed throughout the area to be drained including subsoiling and gypsum application in about two thirds of this area where soils are alkaline; (e) extension of the Government's bilharzia control program by about 120,000 feddans abutting the existing program area and between the Asyut and Dairut barrages; and (f) financing the cost overrun on molluscicide procurement under the first Upper Egypt Drainage project.