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Power Stations Built along Kaechon-Lake Thaesong Waterway

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, December 22 (KCNA) -- Power stations have been built along the Kaechon-Lake Thaesong Waterway in South Phyongan Province, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The 150-kilometer-long natural-flow waterway has been built from Taegak-ri in Kaechon City to Lake Thaesong. It saves 140 million kWh of electricity a year.
    Many spots have been chosen as sites of power stations along the waterway, providing a foundation for turning out several dozen million kWh of electricity a year.
    Phyongwon power stations Nos.1, 2 and 3 constructed in Phyongwon County are turning out several thousand kWh daily.
    The construction of power stations in such places as Taegak Youth Dam in Kaechon City and Hungo-ri, Sukchon County is being pushed ahead at the final stage.
    Preparations for providing new generating capacity are brisk in Simwon-ri, Phyongwon County and Taesong-ri, Sukchon County.
    Labor Hero Om Il Yong, a section chief of Irrigation Designing Institute under the Ministry of Agriculture, who was in charge of the general blue-print of the waterway, told KCNA that a power station can be built in any spot of the waterway, which was built in a unique building method.
    Water of the River Taedong flows into 100,000 hectares of paddy and non-paddy fields, several dozen cubic meters per second, and 20-odd reservoirs along the waterway add beauty to the landscape of the country, he added.