Anticipating Floods In The Rainy Season, East Jakarta Only Relys On Infiltration Wells And Reservoir Dredging

Flood illustration/ Photo: Jehan/VOI

JAKARTA - The East Jakarta City Government continues to prepare for flood anticipation ahead of the rainy season. One of the efforts to deal with the flood is by building infiltration wells as deep as 30 meters, dredging reservoirs, maintaining waterways to community service in the environment.

"We are still normalizing reservoirs, dredging PHB (connector) channels, repairing channels, construction of channels, including the construction of infiltration wells as deep as 30 meters," said East Jakarta Mayor M Anwar, Wednesday, November 8.

Currently, the East Jakarta City Government has built around 4000 infiltration wells spread across East Jakarta.

Not only as one of the flood controllers, the infiltration wells that have been built are able to keep East Jakarta from experiencing drought, the thousands of infiltration wells are able to maintain water in the ground.

Previously, it was reported that the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) detected 25 urban villages in Jakarta that could potentially be prone to flooding. The area is located in West Jakarta, South Jakarta, East Jakarta and North Jakarta.

Head of the Disaster Data and Information Processing Unit of the DKI Jakarta BPBD, Michael Sitanggang, explained that for the East Jakarta area, there are 8 locations that are prone to flooding.

"CLUDING the areas of Bidara Cina, Kampung Melayu, Cawang, Cililitan, Cipinang Melayu, Kebon Pala, Makassar and Rambutan," Michael told VOI, Wednesday, November 8.