Iraqis to Complete Drainage Pump Station

By Mohammed Aliwi and B.J. Weiner
Gulf Region South District

AN NASIRIYAH — In a simple ceremony recently, the Iraqi government’s Ministry of Water Resources took responsibility for completing the Nasiriyah Drainage Pump Station from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers southern district.

The pump station, a critical project for improving agriculture in the south, has progressed to being 70 percent complete, according to Lt. Col. Dale Johnson, Camp Adder area engineer, USACE. He emphasized that USACE and its prime contractor, Washington International, Inc. reinvigorated the project in August 2005. Construction at the pump station had been touch-and-go since 1992.

(PHOTO: Workers at the Nasiriyah Drainage Pump Station do some rebar work on the new facility. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by James Bullinger.)

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