page_title: Erathna Mini Hydro Power Project
section_title: Access road
hierarchical_section_title: Erathna Mini Hydro Power Project / Project implementation / Access road
caption_attribution_description: English: Inspection Visits at Initial Stage (Mr. Nihal Karunarathna,, Mr. Suraweera, Mr. Aththnayaka, Mr. Aruna Dheerasinghe, are in the photo)
context_page_description: The Erathna Mini Hydro Power Project is one of the run of river mini hydro power projects in Sri Lanka which has the install capacity of 10 MW. The project is located on the Kuru Ganga, a tributary of the Kalu Ganga.
context_section_description: In order to facilitate the project and the other operational and maintenance purposes, a 3.5 km long new access road was built from powerhouse location to the forebay location. The access road starts from Adavikanda where the power house is built-up. The end point is Warangala; the forebay location. By the construction of the access road, the requirement of accessing to the weir, penstock path, forebay and channel was fulfilled.
  Since the path is along the part of a highland complex of the country and 3.5 km long path climbs an elevation of 460 m, it consists of steep valleys, rock cliffs, boulders and boulder trains. And also slope directions and slope angles vary considerably from place to place due to the inherent nature of the area.  Therefore, it was a hard task to complete the access road and the construction took a period of 8 months.
  With the access road implementation, nearby existing roads were rehabilitated by the company for upgrading the community wellbeing. Although the construction work is done, the company managed to make a less environmental impact. Because instead of removed vegetation within construction site, a lot of trees were planted by carrying out continuous tree planting programs.
caption: Inspection Visits at Initial Stage (Mr. Nihal Karunarathna, Mr. Suraweera, Mr. Aththnayaka, Mr. Aruna Dheerasinghe, are in the photo)
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