Glancing at the construction of the Giant Water Dam in Aceh

Today I went to the construction site of a large water dam in North Aceh. The construction of this Keureuto Dam is a government discourse in Indonesia to reduce the risk of catastrophic flooding from upstream to downstream. This building was built precisely in North Aceh Regency, Aceh Province.

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The Keureuto Dam dams the Krueng Keureuto River which has 6 tributaries as the main cause of flooding in the downstream areas. With a capacity of 215 million / m3 it has the main benefit of reducing floods that often inundate areas in Lhoksukon as the capital of North Aceh Regency. In the construction of this dam also provided a special flood pool of 30.50 million m3 which is able to reduce flood discharge up to a return period of 50 years so that the total flood reduction is 1,225.53 m3 / second.

At present the dam construction progress has reached 68% and is targeted for completion by the end of 2020.

Aside from being a flood control infrastructure, this dam is expected to have benefits for meeting clean water needs and supplying raw water of 0.50 m3 / second, supplying an area of ​​9,420 hectares of irrigation water consisting of intensification of the Alue Ubay Irrigation Area (DI) covering 2,743 hectares and extensification in the Right Pasee covering an area of ​​6,677 hectares. The presence of dams also has the potential to become a source of electricity generation (PLTA) of 6.34 MW.