development of reservoirs

In 2015, 13 new dams have been built by the government through the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing (PUPR), one of which is the Keureuto Dam in Paya Bakong Sub-district, North Aceh Regency, Nangroe Aceh Darussalam Province.

The current dam construction process continues. The main work is the preparation of the soil as a foundation layer of the dam building that will have a height of up to 74 meters and 386 meters long. The puddle area is designed to reach 896.39 hectares.

With this measure, the dam will accommodate 215.94 million cubic meters of water, enough to irrigate an area of ​​9,420 hectares of agricultural land, reduce the flow of debris to 896 cubic meters of water per second, to produce electricity reaches 6.34 mega watts.

"The cost of dam construction is around Rp 1.64 trillion with contract work 2015-2019," said Head Central Dam Imam Santoso, to detikFinance, Monday (25/04/2016).

In addition to land parcels, currently the team in the field is also conducting the manufacture of condor duct and spill way or hole control water level.

"We are doing tunnel tunnel construction which will divert the flow of water during the building process of dam body while the spillway development process now," he continued.

The building process of the dam body will begin immediately after the basic soil compaction process and spill-way production is completed. "It is expected that in 2019 the taget can be completed and operational," he said. (dna / w