Sayung Demak Village Langganan Floods, Regency Government Immediately Build Pump Houses

JATENG - The Demak Regency Government (Pemkab) will immediately build a pump house to deal with tidal flooding in Sayung Village, Demak Regency, which often occurs every year. "Regarding the location for the construction of pump houses, it has been determined, namely in Lengkong Hamlet, Sayung Village," said Demak Regent Esiti'anah in Demak, in Central Java (Central Java), Wednesday, May 8, it was confiscated by Antara. For the budget, he said, it has been proposed through the Demak APBD. It is hoped that the pump house can help drain tidal water out of the area. Another effort is to normalize irrigation channels in the local area. In accelerating the receding of every tidal flood, he said, it does require support for the availability of water suction pump machines. This can be seen when there was a tidal flood in April 2024 The Demak Regency Government not only deployed a pump engine belonging to the Demak BPBD, including borrowing a pump machine from the local Solo BPBD and BBWS (Balai Besar River Area). Nevertheless, efforts to accelerate the receding of flooding have not been maximized and must take a long time.