Handling The Jayapura PDAM Pipe That Is Broken, Residents Are Already Filled With Bersi Water

The repair of the broken Jayapura PDAM pipe on the alternative Perumnas III Waena road, Jayapura City, Papua on Friday (8/9/2023). (ANTARA/HO-Humas PDAM Jayapura)

PAPUA - Jayapura Regional Drinking Water Company (PDAM) said clean water had flowed to customers' homes since early September 8th. Director of PDAM Jayapura Entis Sutisna said the PDAM network in Perumnas III Waena had problems because the pipe was broken on Thursday, September 7th. According to him, the pipe was quickly buried to its reach from above the ground no longer as when installed. Pipa-pipes there were buried, when the pipe was broken or leaking, it was very troublesome because the depth was now almost 4 meters, even though it used to be only 1 meter," he said in Jayapura, Papua, Friday, September 8, was confiscated by Antara. He explained that the pipeline network in Perumnas III Waena had existed since 1998. Pipe damage in the area could also be caused by many things, he said, one of which was an earthquake. I see one of the factors that made until the pipeline was damaged was an earthquake because it made the soil structure unstable so that the main pipe of 450 millimeter PDAM was broken," he said. ENtis explained, with the breakdown of the pipeline resulted in services in several areas mainly in North Jayapura (Japut), South Jayapura (Japel) and Abepura being disrupted for one day. "We have turned off the water from 09.00 WIT in the morning, and last night at exactly 03.00 WIT in the morning we had functioned it again," he said. He added, Thursday 7 September it was a clean water service schedule in Japut, and it was not served because the network to the region was closed. So we turned off it was not intentional but indeed there was a problematic pipeline network so for the common good because the officers were repairing so we closed it a day,' he said.

Entis hopes that there will be support from the local government in the form of regulations so that people do not carry out any activities above the PDAM pipeline network. "It must be a common concern to protect pipes so that clean water services to residents' homes are not hampered by incidents like this," he said. Clean water has flowed back to the community on Friday, September 8 in the morning at around 03.00 WIT, after being closed the day before at 09.00 WIT because there was a broken or damaged pipeline at Perumnas III Waena, Jayapura City, Papua.