Preventing Ambles Residents' Houses, Longsor Emergency Period In Mukomuko Will Be Extended

Heavy equipment carried out excavations for the transfer of the Selagan River in Pondok Panjang Village, Mukomuko Regency so as not to hit river cliffs, Thursday (31/10/2024) ANTARA/Ferri.

BENGKULU - The Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of Mukomuko Regency has extended the landslide emergency period in Pondok Panjang Village, V Koto District.

This decision is for further handling of landslide cliffs while preventing residents' houses from sinking again and entering the Manjuto River.

"The proposal for an extension of the emergency response period has entered the BPBD, currently officers in the emergency sector are making a decree extending the emergency response period for landslides," said Head of BPBD Mukomuko Regency, Ruri Irwandi when contacted, Thursday, October 31, confiscated by Antara.

The local government (Pemda) previously set a landslide emergency response period in Pondok Panjang Village, V Koto District, for 14 days, and ended on October 30, 2024.

His party has received a proposal to extend the landslide emergency response period that occurred in Pondok Panjang Village from the Mukomuko District Public Works and Spatial Planning (PUPR).

The PUPR Office of Mukomuko Regency proposed an extension of the landslide emergency response period in Pondok Panjang Village, District V Koto, for the next seven days.

He hopes that this additional time can complete the work in handling landslides in this area.

Head of the PUPR Office of Mukomuko Apriansyah Regency said that his party proposed extending the landslide emergency response period based on field review by the PUPR Service.

The agency has coordinated with the Sumatra River Basin Center (BWSS) VII Bengkulu as the implementer of landslide emergency handling activities and it is necessary to increase time.

According to him, the extension of job time in the field is because it will be very responsible if the work is not carried out until it is finished.

He said the hall was working to move the current of the Manjuto River so that when the river discharge was good it would not hit a cliff near a residential area.

"The transfer of the current of the Manjuto River from the corner that hit the cliff was made directly by carrying out excavations using heavy equipment," he said.

According to him, the hall moved the river current to reduce the energy of the Manjuto River's water to hit the landslide cliff wall.