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Towards Sustainable Water Management in the Terusan Tengah Swamp Irrigation System, Central Kalimantan

Authors
U. Niatika1, 2, I. Istiarto1, *, B. Benazir1, Y. Yakubson2
1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2Directorate General Water Resources, Ministry of Public Works and Housing, Jakarta, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: istiarto@ugm.ac.id
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I. Istiarto
Available Online 30 August 2025.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-819-6_2How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Swamp Irrigation; Tidal; Drainage; Rice Cultivation; Water Management
Abstract

The Terusan Tengah Swamp Irrigation System consists of primary, secondary, and collector channels. It currently operates on two-way system, which collector channels primarily used to prevent water from oil palm farming from entering the irrigation system. This area’s water management system is a fork type with a tide pool, which is now nonfunctional due to sedimentation, resulting in reduced channel capacity. Additional issues include high acidity during the dry season and damaged sluice gates due to lack of maintenance. Field observations were conducted to assess the existing conditions of the water management system. This paper proposes an effective water management solution by implementing a one-way flow system, utilizing the collector channels as discharge channels equipped with sluice gates, and normalizing the channels. The goal is to allow fresh water from the river to flow onto the land at high tide, and for used water on the land to be drained back to the river through drainage channels at low tide. This approach aims to optimize both the irrigability and drainability.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the International Conference on Agriculture, Food, and Environment (ICAFE 2024)
Series
Atlantis Highlights in Sustainable Development
Publication Date
30 August 2025
ISBN
978-94-6463-819-6
ISSN
3005-155X
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10.2991/978-94-6463-819-6_2How to use a DOI?
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© 2025 The Author(s)
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Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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