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DateLine Sunday, 9 September 2007

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Yan Oya diversion project to help Padaviya farmers

The Mahaweli Authority has taken steps to implement the long awaited project of diversion of Yan oya to Padaviya on the directive of President Mahinda Rajapaksa to provide irrigation facilities to farmers in the area.

Chairman North Western Provincial Council, K. M. Nanadasena told the Sunday Observer. He said it was the dream of the late Minister Maithripala Senanayake and he launched the Mahawali scheme to provide irrigation facilities to the farmer community in Padaviya.

Due to certain reasons it did not materialise and farmers in Padaviya still look for the weather gods to cultivate their lands in the Padaviya area. A large quantity of water which flow through the Yan oya during the rainy season was not made use of for these projects and it flows to the sea twice a year.

The drop between the Huruluwewa and Padaviwewe is about 400 feet and with the diversion of the Yan oya the flow of water will be stored in Huruluwewa.

From Huruluwewa water will flow to Padaviya filling the tanks at Medawachchiya, Kahatagasdigiliya, Kebithigollewe and Padaviya, he said.

With the implementation of the project, over 2,500 hectares of lands will be converted into fertile paddy lands.

Around 7,000 hectares of paddy lands will also be irrigated throughout the year, he said.

 

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