Waduk Sermo

Reservoir, which was inaugurated by President Soeharto 20 November 1996 made by damming time ago Ngrancah, with construction costs reached Rp 22 billion and be completed within two years and eight months. For the construction of this dam, the local government did transmigration mass of Kulon Progo aka "Bedol village". A total of 100 families were resettled to Tak Toi Bengkulu and 7 families were resettled to the Nucleus Plantations (PIR) Riau Palm Oil. The purpose of this dam is for irrigation systems suppletion Kalibawang area that has coverage of an area of ​​7,152 Ha. The irrigation system is an interconnection of several irrigation areas.
Sermo Reservoir consists of a main dam which is a type of stone urugan berzona with watertight core. Dam has a peak elevation of +141.60 feet with a length of 190.00 meters, 8.00 meters wide, 58.60 meters high and max volume urugan 568.000 meters. Coffer dam with urugan type of stone and water-resistant blanket that has a summit elevation> 105.00 meters. Building type spillway with "ogee" without a door that has a 26-meter wide spillway, summit elevation of 136.60 meters, energy absorbers tub and floor ejection energy absorbers. Building a tunnel with a horseshoe shape with a diameter of 4.2 meters which has a capacity of 179.50 cubic meters per second, the elevation of 89.00 meters inlet and outlet elevation of 84.00 meters. During the Sermo Reservoir utilized as a source of clean water by the Regional Water Company (PDAM) and irrigation water to irrigate rice fields in the surrounding area and Wates. Sometimes the location of reservoirs used for rowing race like that happened recently and for training for the Air Force Academy (AAU), also frequently used as an object of academic discussion on the evaluation of geological engineering and vulnerability of ground movement around the reservoir (especially on the back wall of the dam west / right).

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