How was the initial plan of Sedegtund implemented?
The American Harza proposal was on the table until the mid-seventies, when the Canadian company Monenko, which had Iranian partners, proposed a different location than the American Harza proposal. And that was that the Gatund Dam should not be built on a salt mass. In the end, the construction of the Gatund Dam remained a study and did not reach the implementation stage. With the revolution and the first decade of the Islamic Republic, the speed of dam construction slowed down, until the beginning of the construction period and the presidency of Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani and the order to employ part of the forces The IRGC in construction projects by the president at the time of the case of dam construction was removed from the archive and returned to the table again, but this time the study of the possibility of building a dam was entrusted to the Chinese companies Meshanir and Lamair, a study in which, according to Bani Hashemi, the head of the Higher Education Institute of Tehran University, “to the problem of the existence of salt formations It was neglected” but its dam was destroyed by Hashemi Rafsanjani in 1973, exactly like the salt domes of Gachsaran. @Madeh_33
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