Tambun Rengas Channel will Be Normalized Soon
Reported by Nurito | Translated by Nugroho Adibrata
To anticipate prolonged flooding, a connecting channel as long as 1.7 kilometers located in Tambun Rengas, Cakung, East Jakarta, will be normalized in the near future. The channel stretches from residential area in Cakung Timur towards East Flood Canal (KBT). Ideally, the channel width is 10-15 meters, but it has narrowed and only leaves 4 meters since last 10 years.
The connecting channel will be dredged as deep as 1-2 meters. Then the right-left side of the channel will be widened to its original position, around 10-12 meters
Such channel is also experiencing siltation due to strewn with trash piles and mud. As a result, every heavy rain, flooding always happens in RW 07 and 08 Cakung East, with water level between 50-100 centimeters.
Head of Cakung Sub-District, Ali Mutadho said many illegal buildings stood around the channel. The channel depth only leaves 50-100 centimeters from 2 meters. That is why, the channel should be normalized as soon as possible.
Park in North Jakarta Damaged Due to River Normalization Project"The channel must be normalized. If not, flood keeps haunting our residential," he stressed, Tuesday (6/10).
Mutadho furthered his side would conduct socialization first because there are 33 citizens houses stood atop the channel. Those are located in RW 08 (6 houses) and RW 07 (27 houses).
The normalization was slated to be carried out by Jakarta Public Works Department assisted by East Jakarta Water Management Public Works Sub-Department and other related units. The entire building owners that will be dismantled will not get compensation due to they do not have a building permit (IMB).
Head of Cakung Sub-District Water Management Public Works Section, Subandi added normalization would be started after socialization process. From 1.7 kilometers, buildings only stand on land as wide as 700 kilometers. While 1 kilometer stretches in middle of rice fields and empties into the KBT.
"The connecting channel will be dredged as deep as 1-2 meters. Then the right-left side of the channel will be widened to its original position, around 10-12 meters," he told.
