The Hek Kramat Jati Area Is Often Flooded Due To The Wall Of Turap Kali Baru Retak

JAKARTA - Flooding in the New River, Hek Kramat Jati area, East Jakarta often occurs when heavy rains flush East Jakarta and there is a shipment of water from upstream Bogor to overflowing water.

In fact, the sheet pile along Kali Baru, Hek area, East Jakarta, also had cracks resulting in a water leak that fell onto the road in the Hek area.

Head of East Jakarta Water Resources (SDA) Sub-dept. Wawan Kurniawan confirmed the plaster fracture.

"If there (hek) really exists. The plan, maybe in the auction process at the Natural Resources Service, the plan is to normalize the New River," Wawan told reporters, Tuesday, June 20.

This normalization includes repairing the spots of the walls of Kali Baru. Normalization to anticipate (floods) in areas in Hek, Kramat Jati.

"The auction is for the construction of the sheet pile, so a new sheet pile will be replaced. To avoid the leak. For now, there is no temporary correction to the sheet pile, the highest height of the embankment and the leaking patch," he said.

"But the patching can only be done if the position of the river recedes. Only the SDA Service Task Force for the patching process. If the water is high, it can't be done," he added.

As is known, the overflow of the impact of the New River occurred at two points as high as 50 cm on Monday, June 19. The overflow began to recede 30 minutes later.