Tempo Interactive, Aris Andrianto, Friday, 13 November, 2009 | 20:56 WIB
Purbalingga: Due to continuous rainfall, 23 dams and irrigation dykes have been damaged, resulting in thousands of hectares of agricultural lands at risk of getting insufficient water.
“The erosion of river banks is the main reason for this,” said Adi Saptono, Purbalingga Public Works Office chief in charge of Irrigation, yesterday.
The rivers include the Klawing, Kuning, Serayu, Grantung and Laban. Every year, around half a hectare of the rivers leak out at about one kilometer internvals. Purbalingga Agriculture Office chief Lily Purwati said the damages to the dam could adversely affect the farmers’ planting pattern.
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