Facilitating Cheap Clean Water, Heru Budi Inaugurates Giant Water Tanks In Pluit Reservoir

Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta Heru Budi Hartono inaugurated a reservoir in Pluit Reservoir, Penjaringan, North Jakarta. (Diah Ayu/VOI)

JAKARTA - Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta Heru Budi Hartono inaugurated the giant water reservoir or communal reservoir built by Perumda PAM Jaya in Pluit Reservoir, Penjaringan, North Jakarta.

Heru asked the sub-district, village head, RT, and RW in Penjaringan to properly maintain the Communal Reservoir of the Pluit Reservoir that had been built. In addition, he also asked that the residents can use water from communal reservoirs wisely.

"Clean water in Jakarta for the community is quite affordable, Rp1,000 per cubic. Outside Jakarta, it is Rp2,000. This means that if you use clean water, you must use clean water wisely because the need for clean water is limited," said Heru at the location, Wednesday, October 4.

Heru said that the construction of communal reservoirs will continue to grow in locations that lack clean water. Given, the DKI Provincial Government targets the coverage of clean water services in Jakarta to reach 100 percent by 2030.

"We are being chased by time. PAM Jaya also continues to build at certain points. Later we can add raw water materials in the long term with the central government. There is an even bigger concept, now we are working on a dam with the Ministry of PUPR," explained Heru.

Continuing, PAM Jaya President Director Arief Nasrudin explained that communal reservoirs function to collect water when piped water is not widely used by the community.

Thus, this water storage can be distributed to customers' homes in areas far from the location of the water treatment plant (IPA).

The construction of the Pluit Reservoir Communal, continued Arief, aims to overcome the lack of clean water in the Pluit Reservoir Flats, Electro, Penjaringan Subdistrict, North Jakarta and surrounding areas.

"The construction of the Pluit Reservoir Communal will last for three months with a water discharge of 5 liters per second, a reservoir capacity of 50 cubic meters, and a repair coverage of 282 customers. The water source comes from IPA Pejompongan 2," said Arief.

In addition to the Pluit Reservoir Communal Reservoir, today three other communal reservoirs were also carried out in various areas of North Jakarta and West Jakarta, namely the Cilincing Communal Reservoir, Marunda, and Tamansari.

Communal reservoirs in Cilincing have a discharge of 100 liters per second, a reservoir capacity of 600 cubic meters, repair coverage of 6,516 customers. The water source comes from IPA Buaran 2.

Communal reservoirs in Marunda have a discharge of 75 liters per second, a reservoir capacity of 560 cubic meters, repair coverage of 418 customers, including residents of Marunda Flats. The water source comes from IPA Buaran 2.

Communal reservoirs in Tamansari have a debit of 5 liters per second, a reservoir capacity of 50 cubic meters, a repair coverage of 233 customers. The water source comes from IPA Pejompongan 2.

"So the total reservoirs built by PAM Jaya at this time are six communal reservoirs. Previously, a communal reservoir had been built in Marunda Kepu," added Arief.