Kenana & Rahad Irrigation

Name of Project : Kenana and Rahad – II Irrigation Project
Country : Sudan
Client : Dam Implementation Unit (DIU)
Funded by : Govt. of Sudan

The project has a gross irrigable area of over 2.5 million acres. The conveyor / feeder canals are approximately 525 and 390 Km in length with a discharge of about 400 cumecs and 370 cumecs respectively, in addition to thousands of kilometers of other canals with discharges ranging upto 120 cumecs. The water source is the Blue Nile, with water stored in and diverted from the Roseires dam.

Implemented by Dams Implementation Unit (DIU) Sudan, Lahmeyer International GmBH (Germany) were the Principal Consultants for the project while AGES provided expatriate input in planning, hydraulic / structure design and tender document preparation as sub-consultants.