DRY DUNGSENGON RESERVOIR

KEDIRI, 21/9 - RESPONSIBILITY OF RING. A citizen sees the condition of the Kedungsengon water reservoir, in Balunggebang Village, Gondang District, Nganjuk, East Java, Wednesday (21/9). In normal conditions, the 1973-built Kedungsengon reservoir has a 560.000 cubic meter per second (m3/second) and is able to accommodate 2.5 million m3. reservoir capacity is able to supply technical irrigation water for 12,000 haah saw. But since July 2011 the reservoir has dried a total and can’t envy rice fields that depend on the technical irrigation of the reservoir. PHOTO ANTARA/Arief Priyono/s/pd/11