JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung inaugurated the operation of the Sunter C Pump House in Sunter Agung, Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta. The Sunter C Pump House has a storage with a length of 2.2 kilometers and is claimed to be capable of dealing with flooding of about 20 hectares.
Pramono revealed that the Sunter C Pump House and its supporters were built with a budget of around Rp. 80 billion. He put forward this budget in order to maintain transparency in the use of public funds from the APBD.
"For the pump house budget, such as the Sunter C Pump House, with the three main pumps each with a pump of approximately Rp. 10 billion. Then, equipped with pipes and other supporting facilities, it is a total of approximately Rp. 80 billion," Pramono said at the location, Monday, May 26.
Pramono said the pump house was built to deal with local flooding. In Sunter, this pump house will be used to monitor floods that often occur, especially when the Sentoon River overflows due to high rainfall.
When the river level almost touches the road, the pump house will be activated towards the connecting channel to the sea.
Earlier I saw directly that there are three main pumps and the way the handling is really digital, it is known directly. If you look at yesterday, the rainfall is quite high in this place. Because we already have this pump, which if the capacity or flood is above 200 millimeters, the pump is turned on so that it doesn't last until half a day the flood problem can be resolved," said Pramono.
Pramono explained that the DKI Provincial Government will increase the construction of pump houses at 13 points. The former Cabinet Secretary asked the Water Resources Service (SDA) to communicate the submission of the development budget to the DKI DPRD.
The thirteen locations are in Bulak Cabe, which was downstream yesterday in Cakung Lama River. Then, Cilincing KBN, Warung Jengkol, Sawah Rawa Terate Village, Kayu Putih Rawa Terate, Ancol, IKIP, Cempaka Putih, West Cempaka Putih, Cengkareng, Manggaraya Greenfield, and Daan Mogot.
"We are indeed working with more mature planning and for the 13 new pumps in principle, I have conveyed to Mrs. Ika (Head of the Natural Resources Service) to immediately communicate including budget issues that must obtain approval from the DKI Jakarta DPRD," he explained.
For the record, the construction of the Sunter C Pump House also increases the capacity of the South Sunter Polder and North Sunter Polder in supporting the flood control ecosystem.
In addition, this pump house plays a role in lowering the water level in the Sunter C Liaison Channel, so that the channel system on the north and south sides of Jalan Lake Sunter Utara can function optimally. This also reduces the burden of the flood flow to Lake Sunter Utara and Lake Sunter Selatan.
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