Jakarta – The Jakarta Water Department’s river troops on Monday got rid of 436 cubic meters of garbage from the Manggarai sluice gate, Kampung Melayu Bridge, and the Season City West Flood Canal as part of flood avoidance steps.
” Some 260 cubic meters of trash was collected from the Manggarai sluice gate in Menteng sub-district, Central Jakarta,” said Efron Firdaus, a member of the Jakarta Water Department’s Rainy Season Task Force, here on Monday.
About 144 cubic meters of garbage was collected from the Season City West Flood Canal in Tambora, West Jakarta, and 32 cubic meters of trash was gathered from the Kampung Melayu Bridge in East Jakarta, he included.
The garbage that was stuck at the Kampung Melayu Bridge in Jatinegara sub-district was brought away by the Ciliwung River’s currents, he stated adding, most of the trash collected consisted of branches, plants, and family waste.
As part of flood prevention measures throughout the rainy season, the Jakarta provincial federal government has released around 5 thousand members of the trash job force, consisting of river soldiers, to clear several main rivers of waste.
According to the acting head of Jakarta’s Environment Workplace, Syaripudin, the trash job force workers are being released in shifts 24 hours a day.
Their main tasks are monitoring the condition of such rivers as Ciliwung, Pesanggrahan Angke, and Kali Sunter, which stream through the capital city, he informed journalists on February 2, 2021.
The task force members consist of personnel from the Jakarta Water Department and the Environment Office, he stated.
They are being kept on standby to monitor the condition of the targeted rivers, which are susceptible to choking up with mountains of waste brought by currents from other areas during flooding, he notified.
The task force has been supplied 44 cars for waste collection, 50 garbage trucks, 32 excavators, 23 mobilization officers, and 12 mechanical engineering staffers to carry out the job, Syaripudin said.
The Jakarta Environment Workplace has developed standard procedure for dealing with trash throughout the rainy season, based upon the results of tracking of Katulampa dam’s water level, tidal flooding, and high strength of rainfall.
Floods have actually posed a severe challenge to Jakarta governors and their administrations over the previous couple of decades.
Indonesia’s Meteorology, Meteorology, and Geophysics Company (BMKG) has cautioned homeowners in the provinces of Banten, Jakarta, West Java, and Central Java to stay alert for a likely downpour on February 8-9, 2021.
Possible rainstorms might not be solely triggered by the La Nina weather condition phenomenon, however likewise by other atmospheric dynamics that might increase the strength of rains in numerous parts in Indonesia, the agency’s seismologist, A. Fachri Radjab, has actually forecast. (INE)
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