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Development and Investment Department
PROJECT FOR INTEGRAL ARRANGEMENT OF VARDAR VALLEY
SKOPJE, NOVEMBER 2003
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Background
Water is life and survival. It is not
substitutable and is a restricted resource, a
factor of entire society development. Republic
of Macedonia belongs to countries among which
there are no water resources sufficient and in
certain periods their shortages can already be
felt. The major problem with water in Republic of
Macedonia is that it is unequally distributed in
the area, time, and quality. It is a global
problem worldwide, though we are aware of it,
over the last twenty years there has been not
that much done for their regulation. With the
growth of population and general industrial
development also grow the demands for water
supply to population, irrigation of agricultural
areas, industry, energy, environment and etc. The
experience in the world teach us that water
management and planning of resources should be
complex and integrated for the purpose of
achieving the most efficient and economic problem
solving with water shortages. This fact suggests
the need to establish a defined strategy and/or
preparation of an preliminary coordinating
project or a management plan for integrated water
use in the central part of R. Macedonia along the
Vardar river flow. There is a Project for
Integrated Arrangement of the Vardar River Valley
(PIVV) prepared. It should be underlined that in
the face of the longest river existence in the
central part of the country, this area is already
characterized as a semi-desert region tending to
become a desert. This is the result of the
five-century woodcutting in the central part
along the river during the five centuries Ottoman
reign in the Balkans and Macedonia, respectively.
Change in the microclimate is done this way in
the region in which the average annual rainfalls
are around 500 mm. It should be pointed out, for
information purposes, that these average annual
rainfalls are twice higher in the eastern and
western part of the country resulting in an
intensive vegetation and aforrestation. There
has been no water industry project constructed so
far along the main water flow of the Vardar
river, the result of which is the irreversible
and fast loss of water from the area of R.
Macedonia. This condition binds us to both
consider seriously our survival for the natural
resource, the water and also for the survival of
the future generations. Therefore, our strategic
goal should be the rational water use and
rehabilitation to the area now and in
future This material shall serve to make the
first step towards the implementation of the
Project for Integral Arrangement of the Vardar
River Valley.
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REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
SHEDULED HIDROPOWER PLANTS UNDER THE VARDAR
VALLEY PROJEKT
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REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
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General Objectives of PIVV
The feasibility study related to the Project
on Integrated Arrangement of the Vardar River has
three fundamental goals The natural resources
of the Republic of Macedonia including water
resources, which enjoy special protection need to
be rationally used. Such an integrated project
will establish adjustment to the controversial
interests for water usage and space in the
catchment of the Vardar River. There has been no
such an integrated project in Republic of
Macedonia. Rehabilitation and afforestation of
the area, which in the existence of the longest
river in the country in this area is classified
as being a semi-desert region. This is the result
of the five-century woodcutting in the central
part, and recently of the maximum environmental
pollution of the main water flow. To induce
the consideration for further orientations and
development concepts regarding the entire energy,
water supply and strategic development through
realistic, profitable and attractive strategic
projects. These need to attract the attention of
foreign capital.
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ECOLOGI MAP OF THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
WITHQUALITY OF WATER COURSES
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European Project Dimension
Republic of Macedonia as an independent country
is a political entity responsible for the destiny
of the Macedonian society. An organized society
and/or nation needs a project for its future.
Knowing that the state and nation are established
in a longer time period, the project for the
future is based on the past evolution and
influences on the current relations and above all
on the future to our young country. We have
chosen the French model and/or the proved and
already constructed system for the arrangement of
the Rhona river with all the specifics which the
area has, and the configuration of terrain in the
catchment and the Vardar River valley. Such an
instrument, which needs to be respected and
defined as a national strategy, the perspective
needs to start for Republic of Macedonia, and its
accession to EU. This will enable elaborate
common projects with freedom of thoughts,
imagination and rationality. The project should
induce the initial thinking for building further
orientation, and development concepts for the
Vardar River valley. This arises from todays
widely existing knowledge that the overcoming of
present crisis segments in the social-economic
standing of the Republic of Macedonia
(employment, layoffs, capital accumulation, local
and foreign revival of the investment cycle) is
only possible if such activities are put in
function to the entire development. The project
shall open great opportunities for development in
more business spheres as a whole, are directly or
indirectly related to this area as a basic
development axis. . This will create
opportunities for development of more industrial
fields in the Republic as a whole, which will
directly or indirectly are related to this area
as a basic development axis. This implies at the
same time to overcome all administrative
constrains and local interests and create
perspective to reach the goals for the flow of
contemporary forms of capital from Europe and the
World. Differences need to be reduced
considerably in the living standard as well as
the social differences between R. Macedonia and
EU. We must not neglect the fact that the Vardar
river is an international water flow, which on
the Greek border side has the name Axios. This
by itself implies that PIVV as a project does not
end at the border, but naturally it shall
continue on the territory of our south neigbour
until its flow in the Aegean Sea. This is an
international project along with an EU member
country. The noted characteristics to the Vardar
valley, as the only longitudinal area with
central position in the country which naturally
attaches to the most important development axis
in the Balkans and Europe are not significant
merely for the economic, water supply, energy,
and tourist development in the Republic of
Macedonia but also it represents the most
propulsive area, which will strongly affect the
integration of the entire Balkans area, and its
integration with the European changes and
developing trends and fast integration of
Macedonia with the European Union.
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MAIN DEVELOPMENT CORRIDORS OF THE EU
MAIN DEVELOPMENT CORRIDORS OF THE EU
VARDAR VALLEY
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Executive Summary
From Skopje to Gevgelija along the Vardar River
flow, 4.5 billion m3 water leaves our country
only in 60 hours during the year. Two rational
questions are raised. First why it is not slowed
down, to retain at least 60 days? And second what
is the way to achieve it? The respond is positive
and we can find the solution almost throughout
Europe. Among the most typical examples is the
solution with the system of cascade hydro power
plants along the Rhona river flow in France,
which project has been constructed in stages and
is already completed, or the cascade system on
the Sava river in Slovenia which is
underway. The slow down of the water flow
running will significantly reduce the
transportation of fine particles of soil which is
the consequence of failure in protection from
erosion, non-afforestation and/or a total lack of
concern for the central area in the territory of
the country. To better present the situation some
value indicators shall be illustrated. Annually,
based on the measurements in 1970-1975 the Vardar
river transported about 1,0 million m3 sand and
soil of the best quality in the section of the
Thessaloniki bay. The average volume of all
stone embankment dams built in R. Macedonia such
as the Mavrovo, Tikvesh, and Kozjak dam amount
approximately 3,0 million m3 earth embankment of
building material. This means that in the last 50
years, the Vardar river has transported material
that speaking roughly could have been built 16-17
earth dams. The latest measurements done in
Greece between 1995 and 2000 show that the
transport of fine particles increased to 1,8 m3
per annum, which indicates that the devastation
process progresses significantly.
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Executive Summary
The concept of a sustainable development implies
future planning, management, and protection of
waters from one water catching, considering not
only the current water demands but also the
demands to the forthcoming generations. The
Project on the arrangement of the Vardar River
valley, inter alia, provides for the use of water
from the two longest right side tributes of the
Vardar river, the Treska River and the Crna
river. In the area the Vardar River Project
represents the most important segment from the
Vardar River catchment, and that is the central
region in the Republic to which 1/3 belongs of
the total territory in the country. In the
ravine sections of the Treska and Crna river
tributes, two classical storage power plants on
each are anticipated. On the Vardar river flow,
which means the location on the water flow from
Skopje to the Greek border 200 km long,
construction of 12 hydro power plants is planned
among which larger cascades are HPP Veles with
dam height of 60 m, and Gradec with dam height of
29,0 m in the ravine part of the river. The other
10 small hydro power plants are arranged in a
cascade along the river flow with low falls of
8.20 m, which are classified as
environmental-sound power plants. The other 10
hydro power plants are planned to be constructed
in the plain part of the Vardar river valley with
the installed Bulb turbines or so called pipe
turbines. Waters from the storage lake and the
slow downs of the small cascade hydropower plants
shall be used to irrigate about 100.000 hectares
of arable, drinking water for villages and towns,
industrial demands, aforresting to the bare areas
on more than 600.000 hectares. Complete
protection against floods, environmental
protection to water flow and water usage for
energy purposes shall be undertaken. This means a
complete rehabilitation to the central part of
Macedonia. Clearly, there is a realistic
possibility also for production of hydropower of
around 1900 GWh.
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FRANCIS TURBINE

• HPP ,,Kozjak
• HPP ,,Cebren
• HPP ,,Galiste

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KAPLAN TURBINE

• HPP ,,Matka 2
• HPP ,,Veles
• HPP ,,Gradec
• HPP ,,Skocivir

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BULB TURBINE

• HPP ,,Babuna
• HPP ,,Zgropolci
• HPP ,,Gradsko
• HPP ,,Kukurecani
• HPP ,,Krivolak

• HPP ,,Dubrovo
• HPP ,,Demir Kapija
• HPP ,,Miletkovo
• HPP ,,Gjavato
• HPP ,,Gevgelija

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HPP Kukurechani

• General data of the hidro power plant
• Exploitation level 134.90
• Maximum head 8.40 m
• Turbine diameter 4.00 m
• Rotation speed 125 rpm
• Maximum separate flow 100 m3/s
• Total useful flow 200m3/s
• Separate capacity 6.15 MW
• Total capacity 12.30 MW
• Average annual produktion 51.00GWh
• Bulk building dimension
• Power plant width 25.50 m
• Length 46.00 m
• Foundation height 23.20 m

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HPP ,,KUKURECHANI
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Recapitulation of total investments
Table 2
Recapitulation of total investments
Table 2
(1) HPP Kozjak is in its final stage of
construction (2) the price
includes the price for notification of the
Railway Station6
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RECAPITULATION
Hydro power plants 1 357,44 Environmental
protection 600,00 Dislocation of rails
232,27 TOTAL 2
189,71 milions US REMARKS -The total
value do not include resources for connecting the
facilities with the transmission network and
expropriation.
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