BELKIS-NİZİP PUMPED IRRIGATION

Belkıs pumping station has the largest pumping station in the world built for irrigation purposes.

Total irrigation area : 95.000 ha

Total open channel : 87,5 km

Total irrigation network : 340 km

Irrigation water to be pumped with the Belkıs pumping station is 17 m/s primarily for the irrigation of the Nizip Plain, 3 m/s to support the storage of the Hancagiz Dam with water from the Euphrates outside the irrigation season, 5 m/s for the Hancagiz irrigation main canal support, It will be provided with 70 m /s open channel series for Gaziantep-Barak and Kayacık plains, which lack irrigation water.

In addition, Dutlu, Turnalı and Nizip pumping stations will be equipped and operated with dry type horizontal shaft pumps to irrigate 10164 hectares of great Nizip plain, and agricultural lands will be irrigated with open channels at the upper levels along HDPE-GRP pipe network connected to them.

The main canals, pump stations, water tanks, GRP, HDPE and Steel Pipelines of the project, mechanical equipment (valves, armatures, flow controls, etc.), mechanical equipment, doors, transmission lines and transformer center are located within the borders of Nizip district, aiming an irrigation area of 10 164 hectares . (154-33 kV, 3×100 mVA). Belkıs Nizip pump station irrigation Project was tendered by the General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works and controlled by 20. REGIONAL DIRECTORATE.

Main canals:

BS main channel-flow capacity is 88.51 m3/s and the length is 15 647 meters

YS main channel has a flow capacity of 12.00 m3/s and its length is 22 810 meters

TS main channel has 6.29 m3/sec flow capacity and its length is 11 820 meters

GRP pipelines: 35 970 meters, HDPE pipelines: 221 045 meters, steel pipelines: 4 223 meters

3 pumping stations, 2 water tanks and a administrative building with an area of 2500 m2.