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a rain gauge (left front) and a water-level gauge (blue scale marks in the right back) at the Brangkal River

Banjir Bandang Disaster Mitigation Management projects includes to install and monitor rain gauges in Jember District, the model site of this project, analyze the relationship between rain amount / water-level and occurrence of banjir bandang, and consider the warning criteria.

For reference of this, on February 9th, we inspected rain gauges and water-level gauges which are installed and monitored by “Capacity Development Project for River Basin Organizations in Practical Water Resources Management and Technology”. The site is at the Brangkal River, a tributary of the Brantas River in Mojokerto District, East Java Province. We conducted the inspection with Bureau of Public Works in East Java Province and related officers in Mojorkerto District.