42 Water Pumps in East Jakarta Put on Standby

To anticipate flood peak which predicted to happen in January 2015, East Jakarta Administration is putting on standby 42 water pumps. But from those 42 pumps, two of them are malfunctioned because they are already 10 years old. These pumps will be repaired.

All pumps are ready to anticipate the flood peak which predicted to happen in January 2015

Head of East Jakarta Water Management Sub-Department, Henry Dunant, said the 42 water pumps consist of 22 pumps installed in 8 pump houses and 17 mobile pumps. The capacity of each pump to suck the water is varied, ranging from 75 liters per second to 1,000 liters per second.

“All pumps are ready to anticipate the flood peak which predicted to happen in January 2015,” he stated, Monday (12/1).

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According to Dunant, the constraints which often faced by his party in flood anticipation are the piles of trashes in the drains that eventually clogging water flows in sluices and water pumps. As a result, water could overflow onto the road in a matter of seconds, as happened on Jalan DI Panjaitan.

“Thus, we had to clean up the trashes so the pumps would work optimally,” he told.