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Miru Plain Waterway Project Progresses Apace

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- One more waterway project is being successfully carried on in Miru Plain of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The plain is a main granary of North Hwanghae Province and takes a big share in the agricultural production of the country.
    The constructors, with a high degree of enthusiasm, have done a lot of work in a matter of eight months since the ground-breaking ceremony of the project at the end of March.
    As of December 10, they completed the project of filling several hundred-meter-section of the Phyongam Reservoir Dam with earth and to cover it with stones and turf. And they successfully carried out a blasting for b
   lowing 60,000 cubic meters of earth to build the spillway dam of the Risang Reservoir.
    Sixty percent of the drainage tunnel project has been done and the bed excavation of the Chongae Reservoir Dam is going on at the final stage.
    The projects for working pits and main tunneling have been promoted in scores of waterway tunnels. The earth excavation for the foundation projects of hundreds of structures including underground ducts, open channels and bridges is progressing apace as planned.
    The constructors have built the earthen dikes for waterways in the main by carrying hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of earth in the revolutionary soldier spirit with a goal to form all the earthen waterways by the end of the year.
    Besides, they have made devoted efforts to move and install facilities and to construct the road passing through Risang village and roads leading to working sites, which total a hundred and dozens of kilometers.