While working with all its strength to popularize modern irrigation in agriculture, to get the most benefit from agricultural lands through consolidation works, to deliver healthy and drinkable water to taps, and to protect settlements and agricultural lands against flood risks, DSI, which protects every drop of water with its sustainable water management approach, is in Kocaeli Karamürsel. He also made a statement about the work carried out.
Pointing out that the İhsaniye Dam, which was opened by President Erdoğan and started to hold water, constitutes the water source of the project, Balta stated that the "Kocaeli Karamürsel Drinking Water Treatment Plant" and "Kocaeli Karamürsel Water Transmission Tunnel" works, which are among the other works within the scope of the project, are continuing rapidly, and added that the project He pointed out that the tender for the Kocaeli Karamürsel Drinking Water Transmission Line, one of its other components, was held on January 25, 2024.
Stating that in addition to the dam construction completed within the scope of the project, a conventional treatment plant with a capacity of 100 thousand cubic meters per day, a 2 thousand 768 meter long tunnel with a diameter of Ø2600 mm and a 15,6 km long drinking water transmission line will be built, he said, "In the first stage of the project, the water to be taken from the İhsaniye Dam will be built. 15,26 hm3 of drinking water benefit will be provided annually. "With the construction of Avcıdere Dam, which is the other water source, the benefit will be 25,44 hm3 per year," he said.
