A report released on Oct. 30 by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction lambastes U.S. Dept. of State reconstruction officials and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Gulf Regional Division’s performance in the planning and administering of contracts to stabilize Mosul Dam, about 50 km northwest of Mosul.
The report faults the projects’ scale, organization, administration and oversight and says that at the time of the inspectors’ visits in September, about $19.4 million worth of equipment and materials had been paid for and delivered that “currently do not provide benefits” to the Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources.