Southern Philippines Irrigation Project
Agriculture production and farmers' income in the Southern Philippines will be raised as a result of the US$60 million Southern Philippines Irrigation Sector Project.
The project will construct small to medium-scale irrigation systems in four regions, benefiting 10,000 farm households, nearly half of whom live below the poverty threshold. It will develop irrigation and drainage facilities covering 18,000 hectares for intensive cultivation of rice and other crops. Importantly, the project promotes user participation in order to build up the capability of self-reliant irrigators' associations to operate and maintain their irrigation systems. Training will also be provided to build up the capacity of the project's executing agencies and irrigators' associations. The project also provides for improved management of degraded watersheds, resettlement of people displaced by reservoir impoundment, measures to control schistosomiasis, and development of indigenous people.
Can-asujan Dam is part of the project. Located on Cebu Island, in the Municipality of Carcar which is 40 kilometers south of Cebu City, it is part of a small reservoir irrigation system that will directly benefit about 800 farmer- families.
It is a "Faced,Symmetrical Hardfill Dam" (roller compacted soil/rock and cement mixture). The height of the dam is 25 meters. This type of dam combines the construction ease of an earth embankment dam with the resilience to overtopping of a concrete dam. The dam is resistance to earthquake/seismic activity and its simple construction design resulted in big savings in construction costs. Can-asujan Hardfill Dam is the second highest to be built anywhere in the world and is the first to be built in Asia.
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