Causes Of Floods In Serang City Due To Drainage Narrowing

Floods in the city of Serang Banten/ Photo; Antara

SERANG - The cause of the flooding that occurred in Serang City was due to narrowing of drainage. This was conveyed by the Acting Mayor of Serang, Yedi Rahmat. "It turns out that there is a narrowing of waterways," said Yedi, quoted from Antara, Sunday, January 7. According to Yedi, at a time when the intensity of the rain was high at several points in Serang City, there was a flood as high as the knee of an adult's feet. In the future, his party will clean the ditch so that the water flow can return to normal.

"Later we will clean the ditch so that this flow returns to large," he said. This flood incident, continued Yedi, was not the first thing but had often occurred during high rainfall intensity.

"This flood incident has been going on for a long time, sorry for many of our residents who were affected even though the water was as high as the heel. So in the future we will repair from upstream to downstream so that floods no longer occur," he added. Yudi admitted that he had ordered the PUPR Service to immediately repair the drainage. In the long term, his party will also widen the flow of water in flood-affected areas.," he said.