3 Kalibaru Aqueduct Piles In Kramat Jati Broken, Residents Are Restless Afraid Of Children Become Victims
JAKARTA - The plaster on the right and left sides of the Kalibaru channel connecting the Ciliwung River on Jalan Rahayu, RT 10/10, Kampung Tengah Village, Kramat Jati District, East Jakarta was found to be broken and collapsed.
The channel sheet pile on the right side bordering Jalan Raya Bogor was found to be five meters long. The sheet pile was then installed with an emergency embankment using sacks filled with soil and dolken wood. Although it can hold water from the Kalibaru channel, the seepage of water from the pile of sacks still spills onto Jalan Raya Bogor.
Meanwhile, on the left side of the Kalibaru water channel, it was found that it had collapsed for approximately 15 meters. By local residents, the plaster that collapsed at the bottom of the canal wall was installed as a barrier using a pile of sacks filled with soil.
The reason is, at the bottom of the collapsed sheet pile there is a large enough cavity. Residents are worried that it can endanger children who are passing by at the location.
Nemih (61), the head of RT 010/01, said that the broken plaster embankments were located in RT 09, 10, 04 and 03 in RW 01.
"The plaster is damaged in RT 03, it's seepage from the river. The pile in RT 02 has collapsed. It has been broken for a long time, but it hasn't been repaired because the situation is still like this. This is the first time the flood has exceeded, overflowed," he said when VOI met at the location, Monday November 8th.
Because it had not been repaired, the sheet pile then collapsed again when the river water began to overflow due to shipments from the upstream sector, Bogor.
"Last night there were about 30 families in RT 10 who were flooded. The worst was in the RT next door. Last night's flood exceeded capacity," he said.
Nemih hopes that the East Jakarta City Government can immediately repair the broken sheet pile.
"I'm afraid it will burst again, it's worse. We were also vigilant last night, as much as we could divert the water from reaching people's homes. It was diverted to the highway. The water was standing knee-deep in adults," he said.
Confirmed separately, the Head of Kramat Jati sub-district, Rudy Syahrul, confirmed that the embankment had collapsed.
"There are three points where the embankment broke last night, sir. Two in the hek area and one in front of (across from) the Ciracas Police," said Rudy when confirmed by reporters.
To prevent water overflow, the Camat assigned the PPSU to build an embankment with sacks filled with sand at the location of the broken embankment.