BBPJN Creates Sodetan To Reduce Semarang Kaligawe Floods

Central Java-DIY BBPJN created a drain to reduce Jalan Kaligawe Semarang, Friday. (ANTARA/HO-BBPJN Central Java-DIY)

The Central Java-DIY National Road Implementation Center (BBPJN) has made a 227-meter-long drain to help reduce flood inundation on Jalan Kaligawe, which is the Pantura route that connects Semarang City and Demak Regency.

Head of BBPJN Central Java-DIY Iqbal Tamher, said the sodetan with a depth of 1.4.meter will be connected to the retention pond behind the campus of Sultan Agung University Semarang.

The water, he continued, was then pumped into the Terboyo retention pond to reduce the inundation of the flood that submerged the national road.

"This work is targeted to be completed on Sunday (2/11), so that the water level that inundated Kaligawe Street can go down immediately," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Friday, October 31.

This temporary effort, he said, would be continued with efforts to handle it permanently.

In addition to making sodetan, according to him, BBPJN has also prepared heavy equipment to help large vehicles trapped in the Kaligawe flood.

He said BBPJN collaborated with the Central Java Provincial Government and BBWS Pemali Juwana in handling flood inundation in the Jalir Pantura Semarang so that community mobility and economic activities could immediately return to normal.

In addition to flood management on Jalan Kaligawe, he continued, BBPJN also made emergency response efforts to inundation on the Pantura Sayung route, Demak Regency.

Two pumps with a capacity of 250 liters per second, he said, are operated to drain water into the Dompo River.

He explained that further handling of inundation in Sayung will be carried out by building a pump house to flow inundation to the Dompo River which is targeted to be completed next week.