The Dawe River Embankment Is Broken, A Number Of Residents' Houses In Kudus Are Flooded

Floods in Golantepus Village, Mejobo District, Kudus Regency, Central Java, Wednesday (9/3/2022). (Antara/HO-BPBD Kudus)

KUDUS - Rain with moderate intensity followed by a fairly high water discharge caused the Dawe River Embankment in Mejobo District, Kudus Regency, Central Java, to collapse. As a result, a number of residential areas were flooded.

According to the Subdistrict Head of Mejobo Aan Fitriyanto, the collapse of the Dawe River embankment in Golantepus Village occurred on Wednesday, March 9, around 18.00 p.m.

The length of the broken embankment, he said, was about 3 meters so that it had caused flooding in residential areas.

It was recorded that there were about a dozen houses affected by the flooding scattered in the Neighborhood Unit (RT) 3 (RW) 1. However, none of the residents' houses were flooded, only the yard and village roads were inundated.

"At around 21.00 p.m., the inundation has receded. Meanwhile, today (10/3) work on the temporary embankment filling has begun using plastic sacks filled with uruk soil," he said, quoted from Antara.

The collapse of the Dawe River embankment, he said, was the second because in November 2021 the same incident occurred in the same village, but in a different location.

For this reason, his party has also reported it to the Pemali Juana River Basin Center (BBWS) that along the Dawe and Piji rivers there are quite a number of critical embankments that need immediate treatment.

Floods that have hit Golantepus Village have been recorded repeatedly, because in November it was caused by the broken embankment of the Dawe River, then Wednesday, March 9, also flooding due to the broken levee, while at the end of January 2022 it was caused by high water discharge causing water from the Piji and Mrisen rivers to overflow and flooded people's homes.