Bobby Nasution Asked To Prioritize River Normalization To Overcome Medan Floods

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MEDAN - Medan City DPRD member, Rudiawan Sitorus asked Medan Mayor Bobby Nasution to prioritize the normalization of 12 rivers as soon as possible in an effort to overcome flooding in Medan City.

"We expect the Mayor of Medan to put more pressure on the central government, such as the Sumatra II River Basin Center to normalize the 12 rivers that cross the city of Medan," said Rudiawan in Medan, quoted by Antara, Wednesday, November 25.

The problem of flooding, he continued, often occurs every year and is of course due to poor drainage management which empties into a number of rivers in the capital city of North Sumatra.

The Medan City Government was previously optimistic about the normalization of the Bedera River by allocating a budget of Rp45 billion starting this year, followed by the Babura River and Deli River next year to deal with flooding.

"Why is the flood problem in Medan viral on social media today? Because people really hope that the Mayor of Medan during the campaign will solve the flood problem," said Rudiawan.

Meanwhile, the Acting Head of the Medan City Public Works Agency, Ferry Ichsan, admitted that the flood was caused by the overflow of several Deli watersheds (DAS) in Medan, Tuesday night, November 23.

"Last night, flooding was caused by the overflow of several Deli watersheds, such as Sei Sikambing. The rise in water level in the Deli River resulted in the rise of the water level of the White River and the overflow of Sei Sikambing and Sei Selayang," he explained.

"This also results in queues of drainage water, resulting in inundation. There are also drainage problems, including in the Matsum City area and its surroundings. We will immediately normalize it," said Ferry.