DKI's Homework To Make 13 Thousand Vertical Drainage Until The End Of 2021

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JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Provincial Government has 13.165 vertical drainage construction works that must be completed by the end of 2021. Because currently, the Provincial Government has only built 12.482 vertical drainage points out of a total of 25.647 points.

"In 2021, the target for the construction of 25.647 vertical drainage points, 12.482 points have been built as of October 27, 2021," said Secretary of the Water Resources Service (SDA) Dudi Gardesi in his statement, Monday, November 15.

Dudi explained that vertical drainage was built to accommodate puddles to absorb water into the ground. During the construction in 2021, infiltration wells are targeted to absorb 68.038 cubic meters of water.

"Development of this vertical drainage, besides the main purpose, is to recharge groundwater, it is also requested to be able to help local puddles," said Dudi.

In addition, Dudi also mentioned that other flood control programs that are being worked on include dredging channels, reservoirs, and dams. This dredging is done to optimize the water capacity.

"We are dredging the canals to increase their carrying capacity. Not only in the canals, in reservoirs, in reservoirs, we also optimize their functions, so that they can function during floods," said Dudi.

In this dredging, the DKI Provincial Government deployed 288 heavy equipment spread around 104 dredging locations.

As of November 1, 2021, the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government has dredged 32 reservoirs, ponds, reservoirs with a dredging volume of 626.546 cubic meters.

Then, dredging 53 times or rivers with a dredging volume of 533.048 cubic meters. Next, dredging 1.051 PHB channels with a dredging volume of 132.477 cubic meters.

The DKI Provincial Government has also prepared hundreds of flood control pump units. In detail, as many as 496 stationary pump units were built in 108 locations with a capacity of 518.47 cubic meters per second, 329 units of mobile pumps, and 67 units of underpass pumps.

"We maintain the readiness of flood control pumps, both static and mobile ones. So, we always maintain static pumps, so that they continue to function," he explained.