Two Pumps in Pinang Pump Station North Jakarta Broken
Reported by TP Moan Simanjuntak | Translated by Cintya Meliza
Two Pumps and the sluice gate's waste net in Pinang Pump Station located at Jalan Pinang Gang 1, Lagoa Urban Village, Koja, North Jakarta, are broken.
The broken is the impact of the broken sluice gate's waste net
Bambang Sejati (31), the operator of the pump station told, the broken of the pumps is on the impellers part and it has been going since 7 months ago.
"The broken is the impact of the broken sluice gate's waste net," he told, Wednesday (8/26).
A Pump Damaged in DI Panjaitan Pump HouseThe pumps can suck water up to 2,000 liters per second, from Pinang and Gendong River to be disposed to Sunter River.
However, he continued, currently his party is trying to do the reparation. Both on the waste net and the pumps. "First, we're fixing the waste net. Then continued with the pumps," he added.
According to him, if the waste net functions normally, then there would be no more waste getting into the impellers when the pumps are on.
"If the waste net is not fixed, waste would keep get into the impellers, and it would be broken again," he explained.
When the waste net is already fixed then we will continue to repair the impellers of the two pumps. But if the effort is not working, three pump cars have been prepared in the location.
