Heavy Rain, Embankments Of Piji And Dawe Rivers In Kudus Are Broken At 4 Points

Broken embankment in Dawe River, Golantepus Village, Mejobo District, Kudus, Central Java, Thursday (2/3/2023). (ANTARA/screenshot.)

CENTRAL JAVA - The dikes of the Piji River and the Dawe River in Mejobo District, Kudus Regency, Central Java (Central Java), broke at four points due to their inability to hold the increased water discharge due to high-intensity rains, Thursday 2 March.

"There are three points of the Dawe River embankment that have collapsed in Golantepus Village, namely in RT 3 RW 1, and RT 4 RW 4, and RT 4 RW 3, with varying embankment lengths," said the Head of Mejobo Sub-district Zaenuri in Kudus, Central Java, March 2, as reported by Antara.

As a result of this incident, he continued, about 70 hectares of paddy fields that were to be harvested were inundated and hundreds of residents' houses were also affected.

Local residents, he added, had temporarily handled the breached embankment with plastic sacks filled with soil.

Meanwhile, the Piji River embankment that broke, he said, was in Hadiwarno Village in RT 1 RW 2. Because the flood was temporary, no residents were evacuated because when the river's water discharge decreased, the inundation also receded.

He said that the broken Piji River embankment, he said, had begun to be repaired by strengthening the embankment using a plastic sheath filled with uruk soil.

Previously, the embankment breach also occurred in Golantepus Village on the Piji River embankment. Whereas today, Thursday 2 March, in the same village the Dawe River embankment also collapsed.

Head of Emergency and Logistics for the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) Kudus Munaji added, the broken Dawe River embankment had begun to be repaired by the Pemali Juana River Basin Center (BBWS), BPBD, and the community.

"Hopefully it can be resolved soon to anticipate the river water debit will increase again," he said.