JAKARTA - The Government of Banjarmasin City, South Kalimantan, has called on all to be aware of the high tide that is currently occurring until its peak is predicted to be on May 6, 2021.
Acting Head of the Public Works and Spatial Planning of Banjarmasin City, Doyo Pudjadi, stated that Banjarmasin is being hit by high tides from the sea that enter rivers, causing inundation of roads and riverbank settlements.
"Even though the current level of the tide is still in a normal condition, it does not create a high enough puddle, but everyone must be aware of it", said Doyo in Banjarmasin, as reported by Antara, Monday, May 3.
This precaution is also carried out by the agency by cleaning the rivers and drainage so that they do not become choked, causing stagnant water to recede slowly.
"We have carried out the deepening of the river bed using dredging measures, meanwhile maximizing the work for the drainage of the turbo troops or the drainage cleaning troops and river waste", he said.
Doyo also asked the sub-district head to the village head to move the residents to work together to clean up the river and drainage around the neighborhood, so that this early anticipation can avoid even worse memories.
"Because the prediction is that on May 6, the peak will be high tide. At this time, the peak has not stagnated everywhere, it could occur at 11.00 WITA until 14.00 WITA, or even more," said Doyo.
The area of Banjarmasin City which is below sea level is of course very risky for high inundation because hundreds of river flows divide this city, all related to its mouth to the sea from the main river, namely, the Martapura River.
As happened at the beginning of this year, when the city of Banjarmasin experienced a large flood of up to one month, there were even areas where the inundation took longer and the water had only dried up, resulting in tens of thousands of houses, especially in the areas of East, South and North Banjarmasin which were heavily affected by the flood.
"Because of this incident, the city government also formed a river normalization task force, which has continued to run until now, with a focus on controlling the building of bridges, shops, houses, and other offices which are considered to be disrupting the river's current existence", said Doyo.
Because if you don't move quickly to save the river flow in this city, including the canals that were made during the Dutch colonialism in this city, namely, there are nine canals, including the A Yani and Veteran rivers, then conditions like yesterday's flood could happen again.
"That's why we hope the public will support the steps of the city government to carry out the normalization of this river because this is for the common good", he concluded.
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