PLANNING INSTITUTE FOR WATER WORKS

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 16, 2008
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: April 6, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains Information affecting the Rational Defense of the United states within the meaning of the ipiona a Laws. Title
18. U.s.C. Secs. 7S3 and 7%. the transmission or revelation of which In any manner to an unauthorised person In prohibited by law.
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
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Bulgaria
Planning Institutes for Water
Works
REPORT
DATE DISTR. 6 April 1955
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SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
1. VODPROEKT, special institute for the planning of water works, operates under
the Ministry of Agriculture. The chief administration of the institute is
located in Sofia, and the departments of the institute are located in various
quarters of the city as follows:
a. Administration and Cadre Department at #52 Georgi Diaitrov Street;
be Planning Department for small projects (small rseerrvoirs, pumping stations,
and canals)., located at #5 (? ). Svsta -Sofie ,Street;; and
c. Planning Department for large projects (water supply networks on a large
scale), located on Dimittir Blagoev Street.
2. Every Okrug capital has a VODPROEKT office to plan irrigation works in accord-
ance with the national water plans. The Okrug offices plan pumping stations,
irrigation canals, and minor reservoirs having capacities of up to one million
cubic meters. Reservoirs planned by VODPROEKT are usually fed by streams with
a water level not exceeding 50 centimeters; the dams are earthen constructions
not exceeding 10 meters in height. Irrigation projects are only planned for
state farms and collective farms, but not for private fares.
3. The VODPROSKT institute at Burgas was established in 1954. It is located in a
1-story, 5-road building at #6 Strakhil Street. It has a staff of 11 employees
as follows:
a. Three civil engineers, one of whom heads the institute;
be Three technicians, two of whom are construction technicians;
ce One surveyor;
d. One draftswoman;
e. One file clerk;
f. One typist; and
g. One janitor.
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4. From April 1951 to D
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pleted 140 projects, consisting of reservoirs and pumping stations. These
projects were distributed throughout the province, most of them in the
Polyanovgrad (formerly Karnobat), Aytoa, Pomorie, and Elkhovo Okoliyas.
5. The execution of the projects is the responsibility of the state farms and
the collective farms, which work under the guidance of technicians of the
provincial water institutes (Vodno Stopanstvo). The latter receive the pre-
pared plans from VODPROEKT and executes then,
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7. The Energokhidroproekt Institute is l
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building at #5 Zhdanov Street in Sofia. In the summer of 1952, this institute
had a staff of approximately 1500 employees., working in various
ktsiy.
The Direktsiya Khidrotekhnicheska, for the lanai Dire
about 300 persons. planning of reservoirs, employed
8. An important project on which the Direktsz
was the Rositsa Reservoir, also called Y ovir Alexander der St~o worked 952
reservoir, which is 20 kilometers in length, was c leted in 1954 s T skis
located in the vicinity of Pavlikeni ag and is
Kosovo (N43-14., ffi5-18. The village of Oorskc
(N43-07., E25-09) had to be moved and erected on another site, to make
room for the reservoir.
9.- The Rositsa dam on the R it
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saw ruction of large scale water projects are carried out by
two institutes, which are affiliated with the Ministry of Electrification.
These two institutes are Energokhidroproekt, for planning and VODOSTRO7, for
execution. Large reservoirs generally are sources of both power and irrigation.
os am River, constructed of large stones, is approx-
imately 250 meters in length, 100 meters broad at the foundations, from six to
eight meters thick at the top, and it is reported to be 70 meters in height.
In 1953-514 the power station which is to be fed by the reservoir was constructed
near the dam. The irrigation project to be effected by means of the reservoir
includes the Pavlikeni _ Sey 4
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