City to get reservoirs to prevent floods

[Indonesia promotor]

Tifa Asrianti , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Mon, 09/22/2008
12:43 PM | City

The city administration has announced plans to dredge rivers and build
water reservoirs in Jakarta as part of its efforts to prevent floods.
Wisnu Subagya Yusuf, had of the city's public works agency, on Sunday
said his agency had planned the flood prevention program to run until
2012. He added that under the plan, Jakarta would be divided into
three zones: east, central and west. He said that in the eastern zone,
several areas, including Sunter, Kelapa Gading and Marunda in North
Jakarta, needed an improved water reservoir system. For the western
zone, he went on, his agency had marked out Rawa Buaya, Jelambar,
Jelambar Timur, Semanan and Cengkareng in West Jakarta as flood
prevention areas. The agency has yet to set any flood prevention areas
in the central zone, Wisnu added. Wisnu said his agency was still
working on a detailed plan for the program, but said each zone would
get its own flood prevention facilities, including reservoirs. Denny
Talloga from the Jakarta Legislative Council's Commission D, which
oversees development, said the three zones would channel water in the
areas to the reservoirs. For instance, the eastern zone will manage
water in the East Central and East Flood Canals, while the western
zone will manage the West Central and West Flood Canals, he said. More
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