ArmInfo. The Arpa-Sevan tunnel will be fully commissioned in 2019. On May 30, at the parliamentary hearings in the commissions of the National Assembly, Arsen Harutyunyan, chairman of the state water committee of Armenia, stated.
According to him, 200 million AMD were allocated to support the tunnel last year, and 1.9 billion AMD were allocated for its modernization, of which 1.6 billion drams were used. As a result of the project, additional revenues through the water tunnel to Lake Sevan will amount to about 100 million cubic meters, which will enable to increase the mirror of the reservoir by 30 cm per year. In the current year, as a result of proceeds to Sevan of 92 million cubic meters of water, its mirror increased by 7 As noted by Arsen Harutyunyan, according to the current status, the lake's level is 1974 cm. Note that from 2010 to 2017, the tunnel was repaired, and water came to Lake Sevan through the tunnel only on certain days. The "Arpa- Sevan" tunnel was built in 1963-1981 to restore the level of Lake Sevan. The tunnel, 48.3 km in length, must supply Lake Sevan with flows of the Arpa and Egegis rivers, through the Kechut reservoir, on the whole, 250 million cubic meters of water annually.
