Homs Water Dams Stored 250 Million Cubic Meters

Homs (ST) _ Director of water resources in Homs Tammam Raad  said that total water storage in Homs dams reached 250 million cubic meters. 

He said that  Quttaineh  dam stored 161 million cubic meters, representing a storage decrease of  14 million cubic meters for the same period of  last year, and  30 million cubic meters  are stored in Zeta dam  which was  empty during same  period of 2012   while al-Mzeneh dam enjoys the same storage  inventory of  18 million cubic meters of 2012 . 

Raad indicated that Teldo  dam waters  reached 14 million cubic meters,  in an increase of one million cubic meters over the figures of  2012  while it is  27 million cubic meters in Telhoush dam , down to 13 million cubic meters from  last year figures . 

Worthy mentioning there  are  34 dams in Homs,  with maintenance works carried out  for Telhoush and  al-Mzeneh dams by the beginning of 2013.

T. Fateh