Negligence
and a lack of supervision has led Sengguruh dam in the East Java town of Malang
to be used as a waste disposal site for household garbage and industrial waste,
state water firm Perum Jasa Tirta says.
“Besides
the industrial waste from the hundreds of companies, there has been a huge
volume of household waste — about 20 to 30 cubic meters a day during the dry
season, and up to 80 cubic meters a day during the rainy season,” Jasa Tirta
spokesman Tri Hardjono said in Malang on Monday as quoted by Antara.
Tri added
that the waste not only contaminated the water in the dam, but also made it
shallower, obliging local authorities to dredge the dam every year as the local
power plant relies on it for water.
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