Anies-Riza Strives To Prevent Jakarta Floods By Using Mud Ducks-Olakan Ponds

DKI Governor Anies Baswedan and Deputy Governor Riza Patria (Instagram aniesbaswedan)

JAKARTA - Deputy Governor of DKI, Ahmad Riza Patria, said that Jakarta currently has not experienced floods on a large scale as had happened in early 2020.

Riza claims, DKI has not experienced major floods because it has tried to control the impact of the rainy season, so that it has produced good results. He hopes that in the future Jakarta will be safe during the rainy season.

"Alhamdulillah, to this day we are still grateful to be able to control flooding, which should be seen from the high rainfall in Jakarta that in recent weeks it has been flooded as in the previous year, because various efforts have yielded quite good results," said Riza in the North Jakarta area. , Wednesday, January 27th.

Riza explained, a number of efforts to control the impact of flooding are being carried out by the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government, including the Mud Duck or increasing the intensity of mud dredging.

Mud Duck is carried out to increase the capacity of rivers, reservoirs, ponds or reservoirs by dredging the mud sediment en masse.

"In the future we will increase (the dredging work) from 8 hours to 16 hours a day. Hopefully, we can have a higher capacity," said Riza.

In addition, the DKI Provincial Government also makes river or river sodetan. So that it can regulate the entry and exit of water, so as not to inundate a place or residential area.

"So those are several different efforts from before. Besides of course other efforts that have been made, (such as) normalization, naturalization, then preparing stationary pumps, mobile pumps are also prepared in this period. We will do our best to do these various efforts," he explained. he.

Then, DKI is in the middle of constructing ponds to accommodate puddles or water treatment at a number of points. This is to anticipate and accommodate temporary standing water on the road when the rain arrives, which will then be channeled into rivers or the sea.

"The efforts we are doing include making preparations, where there is a puddle of water on the road, we reduce it. Then, it will be channeled into the river and forwarded to the sea," said Riza.

In the Kelapa Gading area, the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government makes 11 water treatments. Each of them is about 33 meters long, 2.5 meters wide, and 1.5 meters deep.

"Later, with the construction of this processing pond, besides being able to overcome inundation, around the processing it will also be useful as a garden," said Riza.

Then, there are other water treatment plants, such as at Jalan Pangeran Jayakarta, Central Jakarta; Jalan Kedoya Utara, West Jakarta; Jalan Gatot Subroto, South Jakarta; and Jalan Bhakti VI, North Jakarta.