ELECTRICITY AND HYDROELECTRIC POWER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000800180001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 7, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 8, 1947
• Content Type: IR

Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/09/07 :CIA-RDP82-0045
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tiVTEL.LIGEi~lCE REPORT
COUSIETRY Bulgaria
$US.iEC'T Lleotricity and Hydroelectric P~.+r
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1. The Bali Isker darn is cm the Bali Iskar or I?emir ]iapie &ivar at an altitude
of 1,4UO resters above sea level The dam is 2G0 meters long, 50 maters high,
and 34 meters thick at the rises tapering to four naet~9rs think at the top.
The art~.ficial lake formed by the dam has a capaoity of 55,000,000 cubic
meters. T'he vrater from the dcu~. is led doves the gelloy towrards Beli Ieker
vi3lage by a conduit on the wea~t side of the valleys At prQaAnt the xetdr
supplies the small pourer station of the same name, but is mainly used as a
supply of drinking ar~tar for Sofia. ~3rder thQ Toro-Year Plan a nex power
station is under Gonsideration4
2. A nex poer~r station on th? Rila River hes been approved under the T~ro~Xear
~'len involving th? building of a a?~a dams The nex potivsr station wil3. be
of l0,OD0 kilovtratta and will be a fe'r mil?s upatree~m frog th? Pastra pourer
station .
8o Under the Tern-"Year Plana a Weer dam is provided far at Studena an the Strums
River= it Brill supply poever to the nex pourer station to be built near
I~eraxik of 50,QOD kilowatt capacity. '
4. Adam is being built at C3orr~ Rositsa. The la3te, erhen Ball, wil3 bra lf3
kilometers long and 50 maters wide? aontainin~, 22D,QOO,QOD Gubic mstera
of xater; the power station xhioh it is proposed to build will havA an
output of 3D to 40 million kiZcr~tt hours p+ar s~nnum.
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