Panté Lhong is a place in the landschap of Peusangan where the river Peusangan, in two arms, flows to the sea. The B.O.W. dammed one arm of the river there, at a cost of three tons, with the intention of irrigating the sawahs of Peusangan; but after the damming and dyking no water came into the main conduit, and one sees at this starting-point of irrigation all the water running through the other arm. The work cost three tons and is fruitless. The failure is Broersma’s type-case of the costly and useless public-works of the early civilian period.
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Account from Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu
Site of an important irrigation work and drainage canal (~20 years before writing) that greatly improved the Peusangan river flooding situation in the coast strook.
Source: J. Jongejans, Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu (Baarn: Hollandia Drukkerij N.V., c. 1938), pp. 77.
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Verkenningen in Atjeh, by Dr. R. Broersma (De Locomotief, October 1923), passim.
Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu, by J. Jongejans, Oud-Resident van het Gewest Atjeh en Onderhoorigheden, with a foreword by Dr. H. Colijn (Baarn: Hollandia Drukkerij N.V., c. 1938), pp. 77.