At the heart of Rogun: What is happening at the construction site of Central Asia’s largest hydropower plant?
How Tajikistan’s largest hydropower plant is being built, what is happening on both banks of the Vakhsh, and how people live next to the construction site.
On October 29, Asia-Plus journalists joined a group of reporters on a visit to the Rogun hydropower plant construction site.
«60 cubic meters per trip"Construction at the Rogun HPP never stops for a moment. Service vehicles, trucks and enormous quarry dump trucks follow one another along wide dirt roads. Excavators, bulldozers and other machinery are at work across various sections of the site.
After an overnight rain, the roads turned soft and muddy in places, with deep ruts left by heavy vehicles.
One dump truck driver, noticing the journalists, raised his hand in greeting from the cab high above the ground.
— How much do you haul per trip? — we asked.
— 60 cubic meters, — he replied briefly.
That is roughly the amount of sand and soil that would fill an ordinary room from floor to ceiling. The dump truck delivers that volume to the dam construction site in a single run.
The driver did not linger — he had work to get back to.
According to engineer Jahongir Sultonzoda, who accompanied the group, dump trucks with load capacities ranging from 40 to 80 cubic meters are used at the site.
On October 29, Asia-Plus journalists joined a group of reporters on a visit to the Rogun hydropower plant construction site.
«60 cubic meters per trip"Construction at the Rogun HPP never stops for a moment. Service vehicles, trucks and enormous quarry dump trucks follow one another along wide dirt roads. Excavators, bulldozers and other machinery are at work across various sections of the site.
After an overnight rain, the roads turned soft and muddy in places, with deep ruts left by heavy vehicles.
One dump truck driver, noticing the journalists, raised his hand in greeting from the cab high above the ground.
— How much do you haul per trip? — we asked.
— 60 cubic meters, — he replied briefly.
That is roughly the amount of sand and soil that would fill an ordinary room from floor to ceiling. The dump truck delivers that volume to the dam construction site in a single run.
The driver did not linger — he had work to get back to.
According to engineer Jahongir Sultonzoda, who accompanied the group, dump trucks with load capacities ranging from 40 to 80 cubic meters are used at the site.
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