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The Esentai river bed is strengthened against earth flows in Almaty
In order to prevent emergencies, bank revetment of the Esentai river bed is conducted In Almaty, the city akimat press service reports. Akim of Almaty Bauyrzhan Baybek during a working control checked the rate of progress on bank revetment of the Esentai river bed south of Al-Farabi Avenue.
Already in the summer, the embankment will be improved here with the arrangement of sidewalks, lighting, playgrounds and sports grounds. Planned about 4000 tree planting.
As of today, about 65 percent of the work on bank protection of a 1.8 kilometer section has been completed with retaining walls, reinforcing the bottom with reinforced concrete and a technical road arranging.
This measure will allow a 10 fold increase in the maximum capacity of the site from the daily volume of water. During the project implementation, products of domestic production are used, manufactured at the factory «Tokyo Rope Almaty». For heavy gabions (cancellated structure filled with stones) that meet the highest international quality standards, the manufacturer provides over 50 years of warranty.
The head of the metropolis noted that special attention was paid to issues for protection against mudflow. Over the past three years, the number of flood-prone areas has been reduced from 67 to 12, reconstruction of the channels of nine rivers has been carried out, and more than 300 kilometers of irrigation cannels networks have been built and reconstructed. Safety and environmental friendliness should be the core principles for the further development of the city, says Bauyrzhan Baybek. In addition, in Almaty it is planned to build two new mudflow check dams, Aksay and Ayusay, and the reconstruction of the «Mynzhylky» dam is being completed. Bank protection and improvement of four flood-prone rivers Ermensay, Kerenkulak, Ulken and Kishi Karasu is underway. Bank protection and landscaping of the adjacent territory on the bed of the Kargala river with a total length of 7.7 kilometers has been completed. Protective constructions fortified unstable parts of the slopes of the Hydroelectric Generating Station 1- Big Almaty Lake and Medeu-Shymbulak.
