1,156 Personnel Prepared to Help East Jakarta Protect against Flooding
Reported by Nurito | Translated by Nugroho Adibrata
We have also alerted 149 pump operators
As many as 1,156 blue squad personnel of the East Jakarta Water Resources Sub-agency (SDA) are ready to anticipate inundation and flooding in the rainy season. They are on standby in 10 sub-districts and at the sub-agency office.
East Jakarta SDA Sub-agency Head, Wawan Kurniawan said the 1,156 blue squad members are ready to help, starting from helping evacuate household furniture belonging to residents, evacuating residents to cleaning up trash and mud after inundation and other activities needed by the community.
Update! Floods Due to Heavy Rain Last Night in Jakarta Gradually Receding"We have also alerted 149 pump operators. All of them have been trained and ready to handle before, during, and after the inundation," he said, Tuesday (11/8).
In terms of equipment, his party had also prepared 42 units of heavy equipment which were used to dredge reservoirs, dams, and connecting channels as well as rivers.
89 dump trucks are used to transport mud. Each dump truck has a varying payload capacity, starting from a five-cubic load totaling 49 units. Each of them is placed in the SDA Sub-agency office (25 units and two pumps), and the sub-district (22 units).
Then the eight-cubic capacity in the SDA Sub-agency office (13 units), the 13-cubic capacity in the SDA Sub-agency (7 units), and the 22-cubic capacity in the SDA Sub-agency (16 units).
His sub-agency also prepared a self-loader, crane, large combi, and small combi, one unit each to be placed at the East Jakarta SDA Sub-agency office.
In 2022, his party built 200 infiltration wells spread over 97 locations. Each infiltration well varies in depth. 45 wells have a depth of five meters, 28 wells have a depth of 5-22 meters, 114 wells have a depth of 12-25 meters, 9 wells have a depth of 25-32 meters, and 4 wells have a depth of 32-45 meters.
He furthered that those wells are in Cakung (50 wells in 15 locations), Duren Sawit (15 wells in 11 locations), Pulo Gadung (9 wells in five locations), Jatinegara (7 wells in two locations).
Then Matraman (26 wells in 13 locations), Cipayung (8 wells in three locations), Kramat Jati (28 wells in 15 locations), Pasar Rebo (14 wells in five locations), Ciracas (5 wells in one location, Makasar (38 wells in 15 locations).
