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SALWEEN WATCH HOTMAIL OUT
BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE SALWEEN MEGADAM Salween Watch Date: 17th May 1999. Vol. 2 ------------------------------------- First round of Salween Dam survey completed April 28, 1999
The site being surveyed is a gorge about 6 km north of Ta Sarng Bridge, which links the roads between Mong Pan and Mong Ton townships, 90 miles north of the Thai border. The surveying began on October 19 last year, and ended on March 31 this year. The surveyors, including Thai, Japanese and Burmese companies, have now moved out of the area. The rock samples from the dam site were sent to the Thai border at Nong Ook, northern Chiang Mai province, in a convoy of Burma Army trucks on April 8. It is not known where the samples will be sent to for testing. The Thai companies involved include MDX Power Co., the main Thai contractor, as well as AAM, which carried out the general survey, and GMT, which drilled and collected samples of the rocks on both sides of the Salween. The logging company Thai Sawat was also involved in transporting personnel and equipment. Apart from Thai companies, Japan's Electric Power Development Corporation, and the Burmese Company Aye Chan Aye, were also involved. During the surveying, security was provided by the Burma Army's No. 3 Tactical Command, comprising Battalions 65, 43 and 225. Surveying was halted several times because of security alerts, owing to the presence of the Shan States Army's 727th Brigade in the region. ----------------------------------- For further information, please contact 053-807 121 or e-mail <shan@cm.ksc.co.th>
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