Securing a major role for bengoh dam

Bengoh Dam is likely to play a critical role in a mater plan to help secure water supplies for Malaysia due to increasing demand year on year in the Malaysian city of Kuching. Kuching is the state capital of Sarawak, Malaysia, situated on the north coast of western Borneo near the mouth of the Sarawak river, where it forms a delta with the South China Sea. The RCC placing is complete to the underside of spillway crest, with the left abutment block still to complete. Work on the spillway crest, crest bridge, and equipment room, all of which will be conventional mass or reinforced concrete is in hand for completion. The Bengoh dam is designed as a gravity section to be stable under normal, extreme floods and seismic loads. The dam body has a vertical upstream face with the upper part at a slope of 0.78:1, and the lower at 0.9:1 to reduce tensile loads at the foundation contact.