Drainage Sediment In Surabaya Village Dredged To Prevent Flood

SURABAYA - The Department of Water Resources and Highways of Surabaya City, East Java dredged river deposits and waterways in villages to prevent flooding when heavy rains came.

Head of the Surabaya City Water Resources and Highways Service, Lilik Arijanto, said that the dredging of the sediment was carried out to prevent water from overflowing from rivers and canals in the village during heavy rains.

According to him, the dredging of sediment has been carried out, among others, in the Srikana River in the Gubeng Street area of Surabaya City from Saturday, January 29 to Sunday.

"Indeed, there was a flood there a few days ago. That's because the flow of water should be straight, because the shape is L, it is easy for sedimentation or siltation to occur," he said, quoted by Antara, Sunday, January 30.

Lilik said the dredging was done manually or with the help of heavy equipment.

"So what we do under the bridge we do manually and what we do not under the bridge we do with tools," he said.

"So between the bridges, we put heavy equipment. Then to transport garbage and sediment, we provide two to three dump trucks, with a total of 200 sacks from the dredging," he continued.

Lilik explained that two groups with 15 personnel each were deployed to dredge the sewer sediments with the support of one heavy equipment.

In addition, according to him, the city government will distribute sacks to each sub-district to support channel dredging efforts in community service at the sub-district level.

"This Sunday we are also participating in mass community service, which is in every sub-district. We are on standby with personnel and equipment for locations that do require heavy equipment assistance and those that require dredging," he said.