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By WILBUR G. LANDREY
United Press International
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia-flJPD-The
U. S. bureau of reclama
tion has applied its knowl
edge to Ethiopia and braved
lions, crocodiles and helicop
ters at high altitudes to com
plete a survey of the Blue
Nile as it rages in a great
arc 750 miles from Lake Tana
to the border of Sudan.
An eight-man team led by
Project Engineer Clyde E.
Burdick of Ainsworth, Neb.,
returned last week to the
United States. For the next
year, they will be writing the
several volumes ' that will
make up Blue Nile river bas
ins investigations.
About SO Americans and
450 Ethiopians have been
busy with the project for the
past six years, and the result
will be what is probably the
first complete river basin sur
vey in Africa. At different
times, both the Coast and
Geodetic Survey and the U.S.
Army Map Service have tak
en part.
Two Americans, Earl Fog
arty and Howard Ferris, both
of the bureau of reclamation,
lost their lives in a helicop
ter crash in 1961 while help
ing with the survey. A Brit
ish pilot was killed in the
same crash.
Boat Capsizes
An Italian was eaten by
crocodiles when his boat cap
sized in the river near the
Sudanese border, and several
Ethiopians died or were kill
ed in the course of the work.
The Blue Nile slips silent
ly out of Lake Tana in the
Ethiopian highlands near the
small town of Bahr Dar and
at first hardly seei
flowing at all. But
downstream at the
lar Tisisat falls it
ns to be
20 miles
in a cascade of white water
150 feet to the gorge below
and begins its turbulent
course to meet the White Nile
at Khartoum, the capital of
the Sudan.
The White Nile is the par
ent river and begins a thou
sand miles away in Lake Vic
toria. But the Blue Nile brings
six-sevenths of the water and
the mud which has built up
the rich Nile valley and Delta
of Egypt. At Khartoum, the
"White" Nile is muddy srey,
the "Blue" Nile is a green
brown.
Above Sea Level
Lake Tana is some 6,000
feet above sea level and by
the time the river has reach
ed the border of Sudan it has
already tumbled 4.500 feet.
No one lias ever succeeded
making the trip in a boat and
of the Swiss party which tried
in January, 1962. two were
killed by bandidts.
At places the gorge is as
much as 4.000 feet deep, and
the survey teams could only
descend from the plateau by
helicopter. Smaller streams
join the Blue Nile as its gorge
snakes across the country,
and it was the job of the
survey to investigate the land
and water resources of the
entire basin.
The surveyors found that
the Blue Nile could produce
19.5 million kilowatt hours of
hydroelectric power annual
ly and store 90 million acre
feet of water in the 28 dams
and reservoirs which may
eventually mark the course of
it and its tributaries. (An acre
foot is the amount of water
it would take to cover one
acre one foot deep 325,850
gallons.)
Largest of Dams
The largest of the dams rec
ommended by the survey
could produce one million
kilowatts and store 22 million
acre feet of water.
Although rainfall on the
Ethiopian plateau ranges up to
70 inches a year, it occurs
all in the rainy season from
June to September. The rest
of the year is dry, For that
reason, the storage dams
could provide water to irri
gate and bring into produc
tion one million acres of land.
"It will be many years be
fore this all comes about,"
Burdick admits. When his
team completes its report at
Denver, Colo., it will be pass
ed along to the Ethiopian gov
ernment to be put into effect
in stages as the country de
velops. The survey team also inves
tigated various mineral de
posits but found most of them
of marginal value. It decided,
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the highlands could support
a paper industry.
Nile Is Lite
between 40 and 45 million
acre feet of water annually
over the border into the Su
dan. Traditionally there has
been fear that Ethiopia could
dam up the river if it desired.
For Egypt, especially, the Nile)
is life; without it, there would
be no Egypt.
Engineers say the fears ara
groundless. In the first place,
it would be impossible. All
the projects together, if thy
were ever all completed,
would deplete the flow by
hardly 10 per cent. Even then,
they would benefit Egypt and
the Sudan by leveling the
flow of the water into the
times of the year when it waj
most needed.
Organize Department
The survey of the Blue Nile
basin will cost between $8
and $7 million when it is com
plcte, and the United States
will have paid an estimated
two-thirds of that. Besides
leading the survey, the Amer
lean team has helped organ
ize a department of water re
sources for Ethiopia.
The hardships and natural
obstacles have sometimes
been tremendous. Many parts
of the country are inaccessi
ble except by helicopter.
Once a tribe of lions saun
tered into one of the wild
crness camps. On another oc
casion, a party in which Bur
dick was travelling met up
with bandits, who became
friendly when they saw the
Americans carried guns but
stayed watchfully with them
for three days.
"The river is fast and
dirty," Burdick says. "You
can't see the crocodiles be
neath the surface. There ara
hazards in Ethiopia we don't
normally run into in the Unit
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