Resettlement policy framework and specific resettlement action plan

Figure 2. Interceptor drains location and characteristics in Altyaryk district



Figure 3. Interceptor drains location and characteristics in Bagdad district



Figure 4. Interceptor drains location and characteristics in Rishtan district



Figure 5. Interceptor drains location within the Project Area

The construction of subsurface horizontal drainage (SHD) will involve 100 km of subsurface drains to improve the situation on 1000 ha of land. Closed drainage installation will require specialized excavators to dig a ditch (1 m wide and 3-5 m deep) to place perforated plastic of pipe of 100mm pipe; thereafter the ditch will be covered. Drainage pipes will have to be installed in parallel lines every 100-150 mt. Thus, installing closed drains on 1 ha plot (100m x 100m) will require digging 6-10 parallel ditches and installing 1 km of pipes. Thus, the impacts on the affected farms will be significant. The area over the ditch will be levelled and can be used for cultivation but not for planting of trees. It may cause temporary land acquisition/loss of incomes for one season for affected farmers. The impacts can be minimized through timely information provision to the farmers and careful scheduling of construction activities.

Initially, the SHD pipes have been proposed for the north of Baghdad raion and the north of Rishtan raion. For Bagdad, the loamy soils allow a typical drain spacing of 90 m whereas in Rishtan the spacing can be increased to 120 m, thus reducing the requirement for land acquisition⁸. Later, the specialists changed the location of SHD slightly to the southwest and in January 2009 the preliminary location of SHD has been proposed in sectors 4, 9-11, and 14-15 in map 6.