VIISOARA IRRIGATION

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The project includes: (a) two floating pumping stations, one with a capacity of 69.5 cubic meters per second and the other of 5.3 cubic meters per second and four fixed pumping stations; (b) a system of concrete-lined main and distribution canals; (c) about 46 fixed pumping stations and about 180 semi-mobile pumping stations to supply water to buried pipe distribution networks; (d) portable furrow and sprinkler irrigation equipment, operation and maintenance equipment, farm tractors and other farm machinery; (e) surface drainage networks, tile drainage networks, construction of 8 new and remodelling of 5 existing drainage pumping stations; (f) about 467 km of 20 kv power lines and transformer substations; (g) river training works, soil erosion control works, land leveling, deep plowing, and deep ripping; and (h) construction of about 50 groundwater monitoring wells and facilities for operation and maintenance staff.