SPITAK GRAVITY-FED SYSTEM CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT SIGNED
NOYAN TAPAN
DECEMBER 4, 2009
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, DECEMBER 4, NOYAN TAPAN. The Millennium Challenge
Account-Armenia (MCA-Armenia) state nonprofit organization and Arpa
Sevan OJSC signed on December 3 a contract on construction of the
Spitak gravity-fed system. Its cost is 2,106,477 USD, the term is
16 months.
The Spitak gravity-fed system is one of the five gravity-fed systems,
whose construction has been included in "Infrastructure" activity
of MCA-Armenia’s Irrigated Agriculture project. Under this activity
financed by the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), also 6
main canals and 17 pumping stations will be rehabilitated, and the
irrigation network in more than 70 communities and the drainage system
of Ararat Valley will be improved.