Egypt complains one month arrival delay of Nile River to Egypt because of 5th filling of GERD
Geologist Abbas Sharaky indicated Sunday on his Facebook account that Ethiopia caused a one-month delay in the arrival of the water to Egypt’s High Dam in order to carry out the fifth filling of the Renaissance Dam and that amounted to 19 billion cubic meters.
The water was supposed to arrive to Egypt by the end of July but it arrived by the end of August. That is because the filling took place over the months of July and August by closing the floodgates so that the reservoir now contains 60.5 billion cubic meters at a height of 638.25 meters.
Since September 5, the two upper floodgates have been open in tandem with the non-operation of the four turbines installed. The flow of the water into and from the dam has been stable at 400 million cubic meters daily.
The fifth filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) began on July 17 so as Sharaqy estimated that it would conclude in the first week of September. At the time, only two turbines were installed.
The expert pointed out that six billion cubic meters had been released to heighten up the middle wall to 640 meters, and then refilled. As such, the reservoir was ready to hold 64 billion meters up from 41 billion cubic meters.
Extra quantities would flow above the middle wall and through the saddle dam. In July, the water flow into the dam was 300 million cubic meters per day, and was estimated to gradually rise to an average of 600 million cubic meters per day in August.
Sharaky had given in June an overview of the past four fillings, and that used to start early in July – of each year starting 2020 – in tandem with the start of the rain season.
In the first, the height of the wall was 565 meters and the quantity was around five billion cubic meters. In the second, the height was 576 meters and the quantity was three billion cubic meters. In the third, the height was 600 meters and the quantity was nine billion cubic meters. In the fourth, the height was less than 625 meters and the quantity was 24 billion cubic meters.
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