Surabaya City Government Asks Residents To Become 'Supervisory Team' For Box Culvert Work

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JAKARTA - Deputy Mayor of Surabaya Armuji asked the residents of the City of Heroes, East Java, to participate in supervising the construction of "box culverts" or culverts in their respective areas.

"If there are contractors who are naughty, report them to us, later we will give them a warning," said Deputy Mayor (Wawali) Armuji in Surabaya, Wednesday, June 15, as reported by Antara.

According to him, the construction of "box culverts" in a number of areas is currently being accelerated as an effort to overcome floods and accelerate development in the city of Surabaya.

However, Armuji asked the contractors not to work on the construction of a "box culvert". Armuji gave an example of one of the construction of culverts on Jalan Wonokusumo Jaya, Pegirian Village, Semampir District, Surabaya.

"A few days ago I inspected the construction of a culvert on Jalan Wonokusumo Jaya. But I saw that there was an error when installing it," he said.

At first, Armuji asked for detailed drawings of the culvert work in the area. However, after looking at the drawing carefully, Armuji said, before being installed it should be backfilled with sand and stone (sirtu) with a thickness of 10 centimeters.

"I found a box culvert that was directly installed without being drilled with a thickness of 10 centimeters," said Armuji.

Finding this, Armuji ordered that the implementing contractor be called to the location. After about half an hour of waiting, the contractor's representative finally arrived.

"Let's fix it, if you install the 'box culvert', don't be careless. The mayor and I want the development in Surabaya to be useful, not the original installation," he said.

He also ordered that every drawing of the physical work plan be posted so that the community members could participate in supervising it. Armuji also asked if residents found physical work that was not suitable, they could report it to the Surabaya City Government.