Lanka’s longest tunnel gets water at auspicious time
The ceremonial release of water into the tunnel of the Upper Kotmale hydro electricity project took place at the auspicious time of 11.20 am yesterday under the patronage of Power and Energy Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka.
Water for the Upper Kotmale project is supplied from the Kotmale Oya through a 13 km long tunnel with a 5.9 metre diameter from Talawakelle to Niyamgamdora by opening its main gate upto 10 centimetres and three cubic metres of water is carried per second through the tunnel.
A press release by the Power and Energy Ministry said engineers have planned to commence electricity generation on an experimental basis at Upper Kotmale by the end of this month.
The planned capacity of Upper Kotmale project is 150 megawatts and it will be connected to the national grid at a ceremony presided by President Mahinda Rajapaksa on March 27. With the connection of the Upper Kotmale project to the national grid the country’s total hydro electricity generation capacity which was 1,207.45 megawatts earlier will be increased to 1,357.45 megawatts. Yesterday’s ceremony was also attended by Deputy Minister Premalal Jayasekara, CEB chairman Prof. Wimaladharma Abeywickrama, General Manager Nihal Wickramasuriya, Additional GM and Upper Kotmale Project Director Shavindranath Fernando.
Courtesy: Daily News
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Very good chealang work in Sri lanka.Also we wish to see more developtment program in future also.Mostly sri lankan train road system must developt coming years still specially upcountry railway system so old and must get soon newway!
Dear Manimuthu,
In another blog you said you are from Wellawatta, if I am correct,Your name and style of writing indicate you are a Tamil.You have a heart full of hopes for a better Sri Lanka. Your commnd of the English Language may not be upto Oxford-Cambridge style. Don’t worry. You will improve day by day.Keep on reading and writing more.The way I started .You are sure to succeed.
Dear AUJ!
Yes i know my english stand not so good,but i hope readers can understand my point well!By the way i not live Wellawatte,i living Iceland for many years that´s why my english prounes also going to iceland style.
Dear Manimuthu,
Iam sorry I got mixed up about your place of living.Sometimes my memory fails me ,perhaps due to old age.No insult was ever intended.Keep on writing and let us know more about your life in Iceland.It will be a novel experience for many of us.
Dear AUJ!
You no need to say sorry,we Sri lankan not born english tongue.We all after born try to talk different languadge like me i can speak iceland,sweden and little bit dennish but unfortunity english wrighting times makes lots mistakes!
I living with my family in Iceland,i have two small kids and summertimes we will get another baby too.Here iceland mostly main economics incomes fishing and tourists but also iran,gold and platinum(uranium)mind work also industrially having.Also big US airbase situated here.
We have different kind of annual seissons spring,summer,automn and winters:Now we have winter seissons too cold,we have to put more cloths if we go outside.Winter cloths also so much expensives if we buy example man quality jaket coast about 150 euroa to upwards.
Here driven always rightside and winter times should put winter neils tyres.Winter or summer here all vehicles should turns on their cars light,really this methoud should follow Sri lanka up country also because of their always changing wheather situation very often.Specially upcountry forg wheather eassy to recorgnations coming vehicles and avoid for accidents also possibbaly.I was last summer holiday spend Sri lanka upcountry area but i seen this problems my eyes,their not much driver put on their lights.
Here using much modern technology everwhere by developt situations,i have many things to writes here but we can menthioned only what necessery us this moments our country Sri lanka.
I like to say honastly our Sri lankans are so brilints for every kind of works but unfortunity they not using their tallents in Sri lanka,if they go outside the sri lanka then they showing their tallents well.
Here iceland also have more then hundrens of sri lankan communitis,there groups includs doctors,nurses and engineers also have it!
Manimutthu,
It is very nice to hear from you as a true Sri Lanka lover being from so far away. Iceland is not something we can readabout everyday. I had a great interest in reading your post about the details of Iceland.
Dear Manimuthu,
You have opened a door to a fascinating view 0f your domiciled country Iceland,Very few of over here knew about Iceland. You gave us a good picture.Thank you very much for it.We here in Sri Lanka are coming out of a bad time of internal war.You can see developments everywhere.
Dear Mani,
Thank you very much for your details.We understand all what you say.It is very interesting.We know very little of Iceland and its potentials.
We here in Sri Lanka are experiencing a fast changing landscape with lot of developments around the entire country.Now more peace with smiling faces everywhere.you surely will experience on your next visit.This Upper Kothmale Project is just another step.