ECONOMIC - RECLAMATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600250043-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 1, 2011
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: August 24, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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l..:ke Skads-' by regulating the Bojana and Drim rivers, TI Is would have involved
the least expenditure of time and money, and all previous plane for this pro,'ect
he-e beoh based on this method. However, th:: ice; tc this method is the net of
waterways converging at Shkoder, which _s in Albanian territory.
Tho rri, alternative is to drain the Yup,oelav parts of the basin, to
build a levee to Protect Yugoslav farmland from floods, and to drain part of the
::ace itself. Thousands of hectares of land would thur be made available
Tor the culture of cotton and Mediterranear crops. To do this ,,ithout rais-
ing the ie,vel of the lake and thus aggravating flood conditions on the Albanian
Side poses grave problems.
To solve these problems, a tunnel will. be built to carry the excess water
thrbugS the intervening mountain to the Adriatic.
&ra>;,'natloe of the terrain and research on this new project began when
the Albaaiaa government withdraw from the agreement. The engineers came to
the conclusion that building a single level) would result in disastrous
f looc:> "song the entire emban}azent in case of an unusual r! se in the water
level, ? od I?ult_v,tion could not be unr ertake-n at any po`nt until the entire
?Pvae vtier completed, Instead, a series of four eborter levees will be built.
eo.cr. "3 f+.nie::od, .he land protected by it will be ready for cultivation.
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LAKE SKADAR, BARANJA
iTru RMleTiUN PLANS nEVEA.LLD
tiYL'.TEi2AI. ? ?7`LAt A7'IO,+ OF LAKE SKADAFc -- Borba, No 154, 30 Jun 49
Although the Albanian government in hhroh 191!9 refused the Yugoslav proposal
fL.r the lolut reclamation of the Lase Skadar hesin by the two cot= Aries, with
Yugoslavia providing most of the facilities, the 'Yv.l,)alev Federal Planning
Coy .sala4 has decreed that Yugoslav reclamation work on ih rrcjcot shall
begin bf 1 August.
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reclamation tunnel can also be used for water 'transportation.
Titograd-Vir Pazrr-Bar highway. The tunnel from C rmnica Polae under Blount,8021na
A total area of over 22,^0', bectar~-,> will be reclaimed for cult Ivetlail 841
workers' housing built, a drinking water supply provided, and machinery and
Before the construction of the levee: and the digging of the tunnel begin
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the levees, 9,650 hectares of new land vill'be available for cultivation.
The project includesthe construction of a 28-kilor'eter protective levee,
7 watchman's buts, a 28-kilometer telephone line, a'76-kilometer drainage
canal, 6 concrete bridges, 6 dame, and pumping etacions at Podravlje and
Rol,wo.
the "Belie" State Farm is the 4laranja,will beglo. After the oonstrastion of
Volunteers from the People's Front will build 10 kilometers of levee,
3+J kilometers of which will be finished this year.
The reclamation of the Rit will yiold'a large area for growing vegetable
crops for the Jeijek market, while Kopacko Jezero (Lake) will provide a year-
round source of fish for the city.
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