JAKARTA - The Ministry of Public Works (PU) continues to strive to accelerate the completion of the Way Apu Dam, Maluku. This water resource infrastructure is believed to play an important role in supporting national food security.
Head of the Maluku River Basin Center (BWS), Directorate General of Water Resources, Ministry of Public Works, Magdalena Tanga, said the physical progress of the Way Apu Dam has reached 79.8 percent to date.
"It is targeted that all construction work can be completed in 2026 and will be followed by the provision of irrigation networks, so that water from the dam can be immediately used for farmers' fields in Maluku," he said as quoted from his written statement, Saturday, June 26.
The dam, which is located in Buru Regency, was built in December 2017. The construction work was divided into two packages, namely package 1 in the form of the main dam construction by PT PP-Adhi Karya KSO at a cost of Rp1.11 trillion and package 2 in the form of the construction of an abundance dam (spillway) by PT Hutama Karya-Jaya Konstruksi KSO at a cost of Rp1.04 trillion.
The construction work that is still ongoing includes the work of hoarding the maincofferdam and playing dams, drilling and grouting playing dams, the construction of spillways, cliff strengthening, steering and groundsil channels, random and free drainage backfills, tower intake, tower intake bridges, pick-up buildings, delivery channels, valve houses, slope protection and rigid pavement main roads.
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It is known that the Way Apu Dam has a height of 69 meters, a peak width of 12 meters, a peak length of 490 meters and an area of inundation area of 273.79 hectares. The capacity of the reservoir reaches 50.05 million cubic meters.
Later this dam can provide irrigation water covering an area of 10,562 hectares and raw water with a discharge of 0.205 cubic meters per second. In addition, it can reduce flooding by 394 cubic meters per second and power plants with a capacity of 8 MW which can illuminate about 8.750 houses with a capacity of 900 watts.
"As well as a tourism place to support regional economic growth," he concluded.
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