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The Mapai dam in Gaza province, southern Mozambique, will be able to support agriculture, livestock, agro-processing and the development of the Limpopo Basin.
According to the results of a study presented in Maputo days ago, the infrastructure is also critical for the mitigation of floods and droughts in the region, and may also be important in increasing the region’s energy potential.
In regard to electricity production, the feasibility study, quoted today by ‘Notícias’, indicates that the dam will be able to produce 18.36 Megawatts of power at an early stage, and this capacity could be doubled in the future.
The Mapai Dam is budgeted at just over US$1 billion, and the project will be developed in a public-private partnership model.
The amount to be invested equates the amount disbursed in remedial works following the floods in the Limpopo Basin. The study indicates that about US$600 million was needed in the floods of 2000 and another US$550 million to replenish the damage caused by the 2013 floods.
In terms of technical specifications, the Mapai Dam will have a capacity of 7.2 billion cubic metres, the top of the damn will have a length of 3.4 kilometres and 53 metres in height.
The project includes a flood discharger with a capacity of 54,849 cubic metres per second.
In the presentation of the study, the director general of ARA-SUL, Hélio Banze, said that the consultancy aimed at the design of financial engineering should be completed by September, in order to launch the public tender in December.
The presentation of the study also served as a call to the private sector and potential investors, both domestic and foreign, to invest in the project, since there is still no guaranteed financing.
The representative of the construction sector of the Confederation of Economic Associations (CTA), Zefanias Manhique, called for the inclusion of small and medium-sized companies in the construction of the dam.
In this regard, the National Directorate of Water Resources said that, opportunities for the private sector consist mainly in aggregate extraction and transportation.
The construction of the dam will involve about 16 million cubic metres of landfill material, namely: 12 million cubic metres of soil, three million cubic metres of stone, to be extracted on site, and one million cubic metres of more stone to be used for the protection of the dam.
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