Normalization Of Irrigation Channels In Karawang Is Hampered By Lack Of Explators

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KARAWANG - The Department of Agriculture and Food Security of Karawang Regency, West Java, needs additional excavators for normalization of damaged irrigation canals. "Currently we only have one excavator used to overcome damage to irrigation canals," said Head of the Karawang Agriculture and Food Security Service Asep Hazar, in Karawang, Antara, Sunday, January 28. He said that so far the excavators owned by the Agriculture and Food Security Service had never been in the office. The existence of the excavator continues to move from one farmer group to another farmer group in need, which is used to dredging irrigation canals experiencing silting. "Equators belonging to the Agriculture and Food Security Service continue to tour, used to overcome damage to irrigation canals by farmer groups," he said. He hopes that in the future there will be additional excavators at the Karawang Food Agriculture and Security Service. So that efforts to normalize irrigation canals that are damaged can be maximized. In addition, said Asep Hazar, his party will also continue to coordinate with the Citarum River Basin Center to repair irrigation canals on a large scale. According to him, among the triggers for damage to irrigation canals is the presence of illegal buildings over irrigation canals.

So it is necessary to control illegal buildings that are mostly located around irrigation canals in the Karawang area. Both primary irrigation channels, secondary and tertiary irrigation channels. Normalization and control of illegal buildings in irrigation canals is aimed at preventing the flow of water discharge from being hampered.