YANGON: The Keng Kham dam project in Shan State, which will store about 350,000-acre feet of water and generate 24 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually with an installed capacity of 10 megawatts (5 megawatts x 2), is almost complete.
The Keng Kham dam project, which is being built on Nam Ek Stream near Keng Kham Village in Yaksawk Township, southern Shan State, is expected to be almost complete by the 2025-2026 FY, with the dam already storing water above the full reservoir level. Turbine Units 1 and 2 are now in operation and are being planned to start trial production of electricity.
The released water from the dam will be fed into the Zawgyi and Myogyi dams through the connecting canal, which will further increase the hydroelectric power output from these two dams, and will provide sufficient water for additional crop cultivation in about 120,000 acres of farmland in the Zawgyi irrigation system and the Kintar right-way irrigation system.
On January 2, U Min Naung, Union Minister for Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation, along with Colonel Sein Win, Minister for Security and Border Affairs of Shan State, and departmental officials, inspected the completion of the main dam of the Keng Kham dam project, the water storage and the hydropower plant.
At the project briefing, officials explained the status of the Keng Kham dam project and the hydropower plant. The Union Minister called for systematic supervision of the engineering work to be carried out for the dam and hydropower plant, and for relevant experts and departments to make efforts to complete the work within the specified period according to the project sector, and inspected the reservoir and hydropower plant.
After that, the Union Minister met with village administrators and corn farmers in the Keng Kham village tract and discussed the situation of water supply to ensure continuous access to water for cultivation and drinking water for Keng Kham, Mek Mee and Ho Na villages near the project area, and the measures to be coordinated with the relevant ministry for the use of electricity. - Eleven Media/ANN
