North Crimean Canal supplied with water from two reservoirs
SIMFEROPOL. May 16 (Interfax) - North Crimean Canal, which emptied out following Ukraine's decision to stop Dnieper water supplies to Crimea, is being supplied with water from Biyuk-Karasu River and two reservoirs in the piedmont region of Crimea, the press office of the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology public council said on Friday.
According to the information of Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology Sergei Donskoy, water supplies to North Crimean Canal were resumed on May 12.
"It has become possible thanks to high speed of infrastructure construction necessary to connect the river and canal. It was started in late April and was completed in very early May. The total cost of the work amounted to 5.5 million rubles," Donskoy said.
Water comes to North Crimean Canal along Biyuk-Karasu River from the Tayganskoye and Belgorodskoye reservoirs, which are in the river bed, the minister said.
The Tayganskoye reservoir has accumulated around 30 million cubic meters of water, which could be used to supply the eastern regions of Crimea, which had received Dnieper water from North Crimean Canal, Crimean First Deputy Prime minister Rustam Temirgaliyev has said.
According to the information of the public council under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology, preparatory works are currently being held at the Feodosiyskoye reservoir, to which water from North Crimean Canal will come, and water supplies from the canal to reservoir will begin on May 23.
At the same time, work to transfer Salgir River, the largest one on the peninsula, to North Crimean Canal continues in Crimea.
