Kipande cha Reli mpya SGR Maeneo ya UVINZA, KASULU Hadi Kigadye
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Mji wa KasuluVideo courtesy of Maro Media
Tofauti na vipande vya lot kuanzia 1 hadi 6 ya ujenzi wa SGR reli unaoendelea, kipande cha Uvinza Kasulu hadi Kigadye itatumia viwango vya kimarekani vya ujenzi wa reli yaani AREMA. Itapita mjini Kasulu na hivyo kubadilisha mfumo wa maisha wa mji huu wa Kasulu na maeneo yote kipande hiki cha reli ya SGR kitapopita kwenda Burundi na kuunganisha Kasulu na bandari ya Dar es Salaam
Jedwali : wilaya, tarafa na Vijiji itapopita reli mpya ya SGR toka Uvinza hadi Kigadye
1 Kigoma Uvinza Uvinza Ruchugi
2 Kigoma Uvinza Uvinza Chakuru
3 Kigoma Uvinza Basanza Basanza
4 Kigoma Uvinza Basanza Msebehi
5 Kigoma Kasulu Asante Nyerere
Sogeeni
Kwiliba
6 Kigoma Kasulu Rungwe Mpya Kaguruka
7 Kigoma Kasulu Rungwe Mpya Rungwe Mpya
8 Kigoma Kasulu Town Nyumbigwa Mwenda
9 Kigoma Kasulu Town Muruti Murufiti
10 Kigoma Kasulu Town Nyansha Nyansha
11 Kigoma Kasulu Town Nyansha Kumbanga
12 Kigoma Kasulu Town Kumhama Kumhama
13 Kigoma Kasulu Town Kigondo Kidyama
14 Kigoma Kasulu Town Ruhita Ruhita
15 Kigoma Kasulu Town Ruhita Kanazi
16 Kigoma Kasulu Nyamnyusi Nyamnyusi
17 Kigoma Kasulu Nyakitonto Nyakitonto
18 Kigoma Kasulu Nyakitonto Katonga
19 Kigoma Kasulu Nyakitonto Katonga
20 Kigoma Kasulu Buhoro Buhoro
21 Kigoma Kasulu Buhoro Nyamsanze
22 Kigoma Kasulu Buhoro Lugoma
Uvinza - Kigadye SGR crossing a sensitive installation at Nyakitonto
Village.
Project Components
The proposed Uvinza –Kigadye SGR will have the following components of the railway development project
( i) land acquisition for the railway corridor (way leave, access
roads), embankment (track, bridges, underpass/overpasses, ATS & catenary, signalling and communication network,
(ii) dump sites, borrow pits, rock quarry sites, iii) station, marshalling yard, and maintenance depots. Associated facilities such as power
transmission line will be subjected to a separate ESIA under the power utility company TANESCO. The new Uvinza-Kigadye (Kasulu District) railway line will be based on the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association (AREMA) latest
standards (which promote inter-operability) – that is the Standard Gauge, allowing for increased design speed of 160 km/h for passenger trains and of 120 km/h for freight
trains.
The information on the socio-economic characteristics of the districts and villages/communities through which the project passes is presented in Chapter 4 of the
main report. In this ESIA, the AoI is defined through a spatial characterization of the local area from 0 km at the central line to 5 km or beyond, depending on activities
happening in each area. Thus, the AoI may include subregion areas depending on the Project activities and their implications on environmental and social parameters. Areas where construction materials will be extracted from even if they are beyond 5 km from the central line, formed part of the project AoI because of the potential risks and impacts that might occur as a result of getting and transporting such construction materials.
• Route Description
The nature of the environment within which the railway corridor traverses is very variable ranging from areas with high rainfall to arid and semi-arid areas. Unlike other SGR lots (1-6) currently under construction in Tanzania where their alignment runs
almost parallel to the existing Meter Gauge Railway (MGR), the Uvinza -Kigadye SGR will be built on completely new areas, thus touching sensitive receptors such as
community lands, forest reserves, wetlands, water sources and social services public institutions and economic infrastructure such as roads both in rural and urban areas,
and leading to further opening of the vast lands in the western side of Tanzania.
The route in which the SGR Project traverses range from areas with high rainfall to arid and semi-arid areas. The topography of the project railway alignment is characterized
by undulating to nearly flatland, rolling, to rolling terrains which are dissected by both perennial and seasonal rivers. In Uvinza, the railway line will traverse through areas
which are relatively flat up and ascends gently bypassing Msebei Hill to Kasulu, and then from Kasulu, the railway project is expected to meander and ascend gradually
through a series of hilly areas up to the Heru Ushingo area. The project then traverses through the lowland area of the Malagarasi River and floodplain before running through
extensive lowlands of sugar cane plantations. The major drainage system includes Malagarasi, Ruchugi, Mgera and Muyowosi Rivers.
However, there are several smaller but significant drainage systems, which cross the railway line and therefore require bridges. These variations produce different types of
vegetation such as natural miombo woodland in Uvinza, Basanza, Nyansha and extensive farmlands in Nyansha-Kasulu-Mtabila, From Mtabila to Shunga and Buhigwe
(Kitundu), shrubs to wooded grassland to open grassland and woodlots of Eucalyptus ssp and Pynus patula characterize the SGR corridor.
In Kasulu District Council, the proposed SGR for Uvinza - Kigadye route traverses a sensitive area close to Nyakitonto village in Nyakitonto ward, following the government
decision to extend the boundaries of the previous refugee camp that has since been converted to a sensitive installation. The government has already carried out valuation
of the affected properties and people in that area and compensation will be paid from the 2022/23 national budget so as to allow activities in this area to proceed. In view of
this, and given the sensitivity of this area, it will be important to reconsider -realignment of the route going more than 400m south-west from the current extended boundary so
as to avoid this sensitive area. Map 2-2shows that said area relative to the current SGR alignment and the extended boundary.
SOMA ZAIDI :
Taarifa hii kwa hisani kubwa _ courtesy of : source :
ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (ESIA) FOR THE PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF THE STANDARG GAUGE RAILWAY LINE (SGR) FROM UVINZA IN UVINZA DISTRICT TO KIGADYE IN KASULU DISTRICT (156KM),
KIGOMA REGION, TANZANIA
Prepared by: On Behalf of: Submitted to:
East Africa Resource Group
Email:
info@earg.co.tz
On behalf of the University of Dar
es Salaam, Tanzania
Tanzania Railways
Corporation (TRC)
P.O. Box 76959
Dar Es Salaam
Tel: +255 766 902758
Email:
dg@trc.co.tz
National Environment
Management Council
Head Office, Kambarage
House, 6th Floor,
P.O. Box 2724, Dodoma,
Tel: +255 262963859;
0713608930,
Email:
dg@nemc.or.tz
June, 2023