PPSU Personnel Cleaned Mati River in Penggilingan
Reported by Nurito | Translated by Trias Risangayu
Mati river located at RW 05
Penggilingan Urban Village, East Jakarta was cleaned by tens of Infrastructure
and Public Facility Handling (PPSU) personnel. Since trash clogged the river, flood
will certainly occur in the area during rainy season.
Trash always piling up during rainy season and the worst thing is water river frequent overflowing to residential area. Moreover, it been almost 2 years it never be dredged,
Tirem Lagoa River Normalized
Penggilingan Urban Village Head, Usdiyati acknowledged usually trash drift away by flow and accumulate at RW 05 Penggilingan.
Trash reached 300 meters and resulting river water to overflow. Though the river has a depth of about 3 meters and a width of 3 meters.
“Trash looked piling up during
rainy season and the worst thing is water river frequent overflowing to
residential area. Moreover, dredging never been carried out since two year ago,” she
uttered.
About 45 PPSU personnel were deployed
to conduct the cleaning. “We run the cleaning for two weeks,”
she expressed.
Moreover, she admitted the ban
banner has already been installed in the location. Unluckily, residents awareness of
environment is still low because they remain littering.
“Flooded always hit in RW 06 area,”
she disclosed.
