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11-12-2015 08:00 PM

 

 

 

Idris Jawad  
 

It seems that the risk of collapse of the Mosul Dam has reached its peak. According to sources from within the US embassy in Baghdad, it At the end of last month, has ended its preparations and put three contingency plans to evacuate employees of its embassy and its citizens, which the more than thirty thousand, in addition to the nationals and employees of Western embassies again in Baghdad. Preparations that started since September last September when indicated specialized reports to a Altaksvat ground under the walls of the dam to the advanced stages led to the growing cracks in the walls, and on the track formed embassy crisis cell of specialists meets every week to inspect and assess the latest developments, and was one of the recommendations to send team diving specialist from the US Navy personnel to dive to the bottom of the dam and preview Altaksvat and cracks closely, and then concluded that the crisis cell in the final recommendations to the need to prepare for the scenario of collapse and develop contingency plans to evacuate its employees and their nationals from Iraq 0
 

Scenario of collapse

Above all we must not forget that if the connector plug is Like Iraq in general, which eroded and breaks down rapidly as a result of the crises that accumulate it in 13 years. The collapse of this dam will serve as the worst humanitarian disaster occur over the history of Iraq and that it is possible to end the existence of Iraq as a country is based. According to the figures, the study by Dams and Water Resources Research Center at the University of Mosul made in the technology of water XIII World Congress which was held in Egypt in 2009, indicated that in the case of the collapse of the dam, the 207 632 cubic meters of water will flow quickly 3.5 kilometers per second and at 25.3 meters in nine early hours of the disaster, an exhibition of more than half of the city of Mosul to the drowning water reaches a height of 20 meters (1).

The human and economic disaster not only will not include Mosul, the figures indicate that the outcome of the disaster will lead to the deaths and the displacement of more than two million Iraqis, as well as sweep flood water at a distance of 500 km within along the course of the Tigris River, sweeping aside in front of everything on the ground and will immerse water in large parts of the Baghdad up to four meters high.

The disaster the most dangerous of the disaster is expected collapse of Mosul Dam is to ignore the governments that came to power in Iraq after the fall of the regime Baathist the warnings of the world and specialized bodies, In a report included a comprehensive assessment included a frightening facts presented by the dams experts and specialists geologists in the US Army Corps of Engineers in September 2006, that the risk of the collapse of the dam list and expected to occur at any moment Mushir to the continued erosion of the foundations of the dam and its foundations, and that the consequences of the collapse would be disastrous, and provided alternatives and solutions to address and remedy this disaster to occur, but the efforts to prevent this collapse occurs, it may complicated by the periodic meetings between the Iraqi government and US side It was taking place behind the scenes at the time for fear of spreading confusion and panic among Iraqis, as a result of the lack of seriousness of the Iraqi side and rejected the allocation of the necessary funds from the Iraqi government to install the dam, which was estimated at the time up to six million dollars. As well as the case recommended that the US Army Corps of Engineers report the need to act immediately set up as a precautionary measure dam Badush the event of a collapse, added to the building of a dam in the downstream to be Msadda to Seoul, but the Iraqi government refused to alternative solutions, citing that it is unnecessary and costly.

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What the heck is wrong with these people. They have a pending disaster starring them in the face and still no plan to fix it. Isis is nothing compared to the mass destruction this will cause when it occurs.

Agreed. A disaster about ready to occur and they are going about their day to day business as if nothing is wrong. How idiotic is that?

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This is an old article, but bears some consideration here. It seems that this 

 

​is more of a self fulfilling prophesy than anything. And when you consider that 

 

ISIS controls the city of Mosul, well you do the math.

 

I mean didn't we invent the most destructive weapon known to man because we simply 

 

didn't want to loose tens of thousands of our own troops invading Japan.

 

 

  

Mosul Dam: Why the battle for water matters in Iraq

 

Whoever controls the Mosul Dam, the largest in Iraq, controls most of the country's water and power resource.

When Saddam Hussein built the dam three decades ago, it was meant to serve as a symbol of his leadership and Iraq's strength.

The dam is the latest key strategic battleground in northern Iraq between militants from Islamic State (IS), who took it on 7 August, and Kurdish and Iraqi forces supported by American airpower.

Located on the River Tigris about 50km (30 miles) upstream from the city of Mosul, the dam controls the water and power supply to a large surrounding area in northern Iraq.

Its generators can produce 1010 megawatts of electricity, according to the website of the Iraqi State Commission for Dams and Reservoirs.

The structure also holds back over 12 billion cubic metres of water that are crucial for irrigation in the farming areas of Iraq's western Nineveh province.

Instrument of war

However, since its completion in the 1980s, the dam has required regular maintenance involving injections of cement on areas of leakage.

The US government has invested more than $30m (£17.9m) on monitoring and repairs, working together with Iraqi teams.

In 2007, the then commanding general of US forces in Iraq, David Petraeus, and the then US ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, warned Iraq's PM Nouri Maliki that the structure was highly dangerous because it was built on unstable soil foundation.

"A catastrophic failure of Mosul dam would result in flooding along the Tigris river all the way to Baghdad," they said in a letter.

"Assuming a worst-case scenario, an instantaneous failure of Mosul dam filled to its maximum operating level could result in a flood wave 20 metres (65.5ft) deep at the city of Mosul," it said.

Writing to Congress, President Obama cited the potentially massive loss of civilian life and the possible threat to the US embassy in Baghdad.

Those dangers, he wrote, were sufficient reasons for deploying air power to support Kurdish forces trying to recapture the dam.

'Method in their madness'

Relief in Washington and Baghdad will only come when IS militants, who have sought control of water resources before, have been stopped from using the dam as an instrument of war.

The deployment of air power by the US in support of Kurdish forces has shown how seriously the White House takes the potential threat posed by IS control of the dam.

The Fallujah dam, in the Nuamiyah area of the city, in Iraq's western Anbar province, fell under IS control in February.

However, the group has so far failed in its attempts to capture the Haditha dam, Iraq's second largest, from the army.

The 8km-long Haditha dam and its hydro-electrical facility, located to the north-west of Baghdad, supply 30% of Iraq's electricity. Securing it was one of the first objectives of US special forces invading Iraq in 2003.

With the Mosul dam in its hands, the concern is that Islamic State could "flood farmland and disrupt drinking water supplies, like it did with a smaller dam near Fallujah this spring," wrote Keith Johnson in an article for Foreign Policy last month.

In May, a flood displaced an estimated 40,000 people between Fallujah and Abu Ghraib.

Earlier this month, IS militants reportedly closed eight of the Fallujah dam's 10 lock gates that control the river flow, flooding land up the Euphrates river and reducing water levels in Iraq's southern provinces, through which the river passes.

Many families were forced from their homes and troops were prevented from deploying, Iraqi security officials said.

Reports say the militants have now re-opened five of the dam's gates to relieve some pressure, fearing their strategy might backfire if their stronghold of Fallujah flooded.

_76920176_mosul_dam_map_624v2.jpgImage captionKey Iraqi dams taken or at risk of being taken by Islamic State

In the days after they took over the Mosul dam, militants were reportedly blackmailing frightened workers to either keep the facility going or lose their pay.

Analysts fear the Islamic State could now use the dam as leverage against the new Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, by holding on to the territory around it in return for continued water and power supply.

The group already controls other key national assets - several oil and gas fields in western Iraq and Syria.

"These extremists are not just mad," says Salman Shaikh, director of the Brookings Institution's Doha Centre in Qatar.

"There's a method in their madness. They've managed to amass cash and natural resources, both oil and water, the two most important things. And of course, they're going to use those as a way of continuing to grow and strengthen."

 
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A company I'm familiar with, was asked in 2006 when the ACOE was doing its study, to bid on the repair along with other engineering firms, but the company declined due to the huge and long term liability and no contractual relief offered by the Iraqi or US government. Allegedly major concerns that the dam was shoddyily constructed from the get-go.

In order to bolster Saddam Hussein's regime during the Iran-Iraq War and promote Saddam's Arabization efforts in Northern Iraq, the construction of the Mosul Dam was important. Construction on the Mosul Dam began in 1980 by a German-Italian consortium that was led by Hochtief Aktiengesellschaft. Because the dam was constructed on a foundation of soluble gypsum, the engineers installed a grouting gallery that would allow continuous grouting of the dam's foundation in order to promote stability. Construction was complete in 1984 and in the spring of 1985, the Mosul Dam began to inundate the Tigris River, filling the reservoir which submerged many archaeological sites in the region. Because of significant structural stability issues associated with the Mosul Dam, grouting and additional construction and repairs are constant. The earthen embankment dam is located on top of gypsum, a soft mineral which dissolves in contact with water. Continuous maintenance is required to plug, or "grout", new leaks with a liquefied slurry of cement and other additives.

In 2007, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers developed and executed a US$27 million plan to help continue maintenance and repairs on the dam in the short-term. The Iraq Government is implementing a long-term solution which includes the construction of 67 m (220 ft) deep walls around the dam foundation. The ongoing project was expected to cost $4 billion and last four to five years. I don't know if this fix ever came to fruition plus when ISIS took over, I don't know what the GOI did other than fight ISIS and retake the

area.

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Mosul safe nor fears of dam collapse

 

 

         

12/15/2015 0:00 

 BAGHDAD - Ahmed Abed Rabbo 

renewed the Ministry of Water Resources confirmed the safety of the Mosul Dam, denying reports that fears of a near collapse, noting at the same time that the maintenance and Overstuffing businessman founded by a continuous round Aleom.altokidat were not the ministry alone mentioned, as it denied the governor of Nineveh Nofal Hammadi yesterday, reports of the collapse of the dam, describing it as a «lack credibility».    The media has picked up a report warned of the collapse of the Mosul Dam, the fact that the floor Altaksvat and cracks under the walls, and reached a dangerous stage. As counting adviser The ministry official Tdtha Mehdi Rashid Mahdi in a statement made ​​by »Sabah», reports of the collapse of the Mosul Dam, «incorrect» and »lacks precision», categorically denying reports that its collapse, stressing that the maintenance work and Overstuffing in founded by continuing throughout the day. It is said that the problem of Mosul, three thousand and 650 meters and the reality of its length on the course of the Tigris River dam, 50 km north of Mosul city center, undiagnosed since accomplished in 1986, resulting from continuous founded deterioration of the container on the configurations (gypsum) and (Alanhidraat) that melt on an ongoing basis the impact of water storage in the lake provider dam, and resulted in Taksvat nominated body of the dam, but the machines Overstuffing the latest in the world, and continuous 24-hour in their work, are what prevent its collapse. The ministry had appointed Council global experts after 2003, to conduct studies and the development of the process of implementing Overstuffing and improve the mix user of the private-resistant cement which surpassed used it amounts so far the quality, the 50 thousand tons, and that the recommendations included reducing the level storage dam lake from 330 to 318 meters maximum, which led to the electricity produced by its hydroelectric station from 1000 to less than 250 MW, which reduced. He said Mahdi, said the ministry has sent over the past months, international experts have conducted statements intensive scientific minutes on the body of the dam, stressing that all reports prepared in this regard by them, concluded the safety of the dam, in the absence of any risk of collapse. The number of international conferences held almost six years on the problem of the dam before, had developed radical solutions and a final so using very sophisticated techniques used for the first time in the world, includes the construction (wall boycotted) dam is submitted more deeply of 200 meters, through techniques become now possible with a limited number of foreign companies, and Bklv ten will not exceed percent of the cost construction of similar dam site and the size and importance of the Mosul Dam in the same place. The Cabinet had been monitoring the beginning of this year, ten billion dinars for the rehabilitation, as allocated Ministry of Water Resources and other amounts from its budget for the same purpose. The Minister for Resources Mohsen al-Shammari during the current year more than a field visit to the dam under the control of the security forces and the Peshmerga after its liberation from Conception terrorists «Daash» over a year ago.

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Italian Prime Minister Matteo Rinci on Wednesday announced that the combat troops from his country's going to go to Iraq to participate in the front lines in the face of the organization Daash repair work to protect the Mosul dam in danger of collapse according to reports.
He said Rinci in a statement to the House of Representatives that "our troops in Iraq for training but also within the task of a military operation in Mosul Dam" The reality in Nineveh province in northern Iraq. 
He explained that "the dam, which has seen a long battles suffers from severe damage threatens to collapse what will cause a disaster will lead to the complete destruction of Baghdad. 
"The Italian prime minister said that" Italy, which won one of its bid to repair the dam will be published along with the United States 450 soldiers will leave soon to Mosul to protect the dam based on the Tigris River, a vital infrastructure of the country and after the approval of the parliament. 
"According to recent reports that Mosul Dam biggest dams Iraq and the fourth largest dam in the Middle East due to corrosion in infrastructure to collapse would have been as long as the Iraqi government denies these reports confirm the continuation of Amaaljtah.anthy
 
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Italy is to send 450 troops to defend Iraq's strategic Mosul dam, near the city occupied by Islamic State group fighters, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi announced.

 

 

Published: 16 Dec 2015 11:17 GMT+01:00

 

 

The dam on the Tigris river, built by a German-Italian consortium in the 1980s and in which Italian company Trevi still has an interest, is a vital water and power source for Mosul, Iraq's largest northern city.
   
"The call (to protect the dam) was made by an Italian company... and we will send 450 of our men there to help protect it alongside the Americans," the prime minister said on national television late on Tuesday.
   
Mosul, Iraq's second city, has been occupied by Isis jihadists since June 2014. Kurdish forces, backed by US air strikes, retook the dam from Isis in August 2014.
   
The dam, which provides water and energy to over a million people, "is in the heart of a dangerous zone, on the border with Isis. It is seriously damaged and risks collapse," Renzi warned.
   
If the dam is destroyed by fighting it could unleash major flooding in Mosul and the capital Baghdad, 400 kilometres (250 miles) to the south.
 
Italian construction and energy group Trevi has secured a €1.8 billion ($1.96B) contract to shore up the dam.
   
So far the security situation has been too precarious for those works to begin.
   
The 450 Italian troops will be in addition to the 750 already on the ground in Iraq as part of international efforts.

 

 

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450 Italian troops will be sent to protect the important Mosul dam in Iraq. Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP
 
 
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