One Hour Rain, Flood Comes

One hour of rain, teacher housing on Guntung Alaban flooded

Some residents in the Teachers Housing Complex at Guntung Alaban RT 13 RW 2, Banjar Regency Martapura some time it looks so dizzy because his house is often flooded.This December alone there were 3 times subject to flood, but the two floods that occurred at the beginning of the month of December is not too broad and deep. "The flood last night fairly deep and widespread flooding teacher housing complex," explained M Yupi Hipyani local residents.
Even so bright inside water level, water level is almost flat on the floor of the bridge Guntung Alaban. As a result homes are located next to the smooth flow of the River Guntung Alaban all submerged about one meter."The flood last night was the greatest, but it's for the month of December, if this year was in March also had flooded earlier," said M Yupi Hipyani.Related flood Hipyani said yesterday evening, the water started to show up since the late afternoon around 17:00 PM and the peak start and flooded homes after dusk began to fall around 23:00 pm. "If it rains this afternoon is still long, then it is likely to happen again flooding due to overflowing rivers," he explained.Frequent floods hit the teacher thinks the settlement, had been going on for years, even though the normalization of the river has been done by siring the left-right development of the river, did not reduce the risk of flooding, according to him even more so frequent flooding."If it rains one or two hours only, it is definitely flooding. Yes if the afternoon, when engrossed in the middle of the night to sleep, uh suddenly flooded the house was not easy, not to mention the risk of a submerged electric current which can causes the stun, "said Abul other residents.Meanwhile, Head of Water Resources (SDP) Department of Public Works Banjar Regency M Ikhsan on confirmation says it currently can not do anything even to find solutions to emergency response in order to partially submerged housing teachers who are not subject to flood again ."At present we can not do anything to overcome it, we are currently trying to coordinate with the province (South Kalimantan Provincial Department of Public Works, ) as the point of the matter is not smooth discharge of river water due to choked flow in sewers under irrigation, the dimensions too small, "said M Ikhsan.Dimensions drainage under irrigation canal that leads into the Sungai Sipai although there were two but very small, as a result of rainfall during this time said the man who took his courses S2 in the Netherlands is, water that meets the flow River full Guntung Alaban can not flow smoothly so that the low areas such as teacher housing at Guntung Alaban get flood water resulting in flooding.Moreover, he added, the river was too Guntung Alaban get water runoff from the area including 4 points of Banjarbaru area."Watershed is getting at Guntung Alaban water runoff from the area Jl Pendidikan, Kampung Baru, then from areas such as in the region BLK  Banjarbaru and Telkom Banjarbaru region, so they meet in the flow of the river, well below the channel dimensions plus a small irrigation and rainfall High-end flat area submerged due to flooding Alaban, "he explained. 
To correct or add a channel below right cascade irrigation continued, need to coordinate with the provinces, because to do so for security and safety factor of irrigation canals in the area to be dried.According to the plan added that if possible will be implemented in 2012. "We try as soon as possible, preferably by 2012," he concluded.