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Saturday, November 30, 2013

Environmental experts Welcomes Eviction villa in Bogor to Prevent Flooding


Environmental experts Welcomes Eviction villa in Bogor to Prevent Flooding


However, even if the upstream area of the Ciliwung been free of the villas , it has completed the third of flooding problems .

 The provincial government of Jakarta Special Capital Region seeks to prevent flooding by adopting several measures , including working with the provincial government of West Java , Bogor district specifically to evict illegal villas in Puncak area .

In the past week , Civil Service Police Unit unload 41 villas in Puncak area , because it does not have a license and violate the rules because it is built on water catchment areas and protected forests .

Environmental expert of the Board of Forestry and Environmental Observer Tatar Sunda Sobirin explains , there are three main causes of flooding in Jakarta that need fast handling , not only by the Government of Jakarta , but also in West Java , Banten and the central government .

" The cause of the flood is a flood of submissions is on the upstream side of the upstream Cilegung , south of Bogor , and also from the Cisadane river upstream . Then the second is the drainage ( water channels ) in the city itself , " he said .

" Drainage of Jakarta was as yet perfectly true . The third is , when the season full moon and new moon was rising tides and sea water and the water is turning back to close the river . "

Sobirin welcomed the cooperation among local governments in conducting evictions villas built over the water catchment areas .

" Eviction villas are quite nice as lessons on spatial irregularities that had been done . That area is a protected area that is based on rainfall slope and soil type , the area should not be actually built . So in this case the spatial planning law enforcement to be there , " he said .

However Sobirin added , if the upstream area of the Ciliwung is free from the villas , the completion of a third new flooding in Jakarta . Because according to two-thirds of the flooding problems in the capital Jakarta alone , the drainage problem and security of the sea tide north of Jakarta .

Jakarta Vice Governor Basuki Purnama T previously explained , Jakarta administration Rp 2.1 billion to help dismantle the illegal villas .

In addition , Bogor regency will also get help to repair watersheds ( DAS ) and community development as well as the normalization riverbank reservoirs , such as Ciliwung River and the upper reaches Situ Cikaret . The second area is an area of ​​the reservoir and distribution of water during the rainy season .

dredging

Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo who is familiarly called Jokowi in Jakarta on Saturday ( 30/11 ) explains , his administration until now continues to perform dredging 13 major rivers and 884 small river that crosses Jakarta .

" Throughout this year we have done the dredging and widening the 13 major rivers . We start at four rivers namely Angke , Ciliwung , Sunter and Houses , and small rivers , " he said .

" In Jakarta there are 884 small rivers , streams 160s already dredged . Was already 30 years old rivers had not been dredged at all . Depth was supposed to stay 2 meters 10 centimeters . A depth of 3 meters a half meters . It exists in all places . For what ? Because either side has been occupied by residents .

Jakarta government , added Jokowi , during this year continues to build wells in the catchment .

" We have also built in the recharge wells . There were 1,958 infiltration wells 60 to 200 feet deep , " he said .

City government , further Jokowi , also accelerate the development of Pluit Dam and Reservoir Ria Rio Pulogadung , including residential organize around it . In Jakarta , according to Jokowi , many non - technical problems are an obstacle to overcome flood in Jakarta . It 's his opinion , because of the authority of government continues to drag on for decades have never kept . ( VOA )

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