Ordered By Bobby Nasution, Public Works Agency Targets To Repair 60 Km Of Drainage This Year

MEDAN - The City Government (Pemko) of Medan, North Sumatra, is targeting to repair a 60-kilometer (km) drainage channel that has passed technical studies and was evaluated last year.

"From these 59 work packages, the normalized drainage length is around 40-60 km," said Head of the Medan City Public Works Agency, Zulfansyah Ali Saputra, quoted by Antara, Thursday, June 24.

Zulfansyah believes that this activity to repair drainage channels will be able to reduce 50 to 100 points of standing water in 21 sub-districts in Medan City with a budget of Rp59 billion.

He revealed, currently there are about 500 points of puddles in the city of Medan. His party itself has made improvements to drainage along 281 km, thereby reducing 50 points of standing water.

"If the normalization of 59 packages is carried out, then the puddle points will be reduced by 150 points. This means that there are only 350 puddles that we will deal with next," said Zulfansyah

The Mayor of Medan, Bobby Nasution warned this week that the normalization of drainage must be really effective, so as to minimize the occurrence of floods and puddles in the city of Medan.

"Through the best possible technical study, God willing, normalization of drainage will not be in vain and will be able to overcome floods and puddle points. In addition, it also prevents the budget used for normalization from being wasted," said Bobby.