Padang (ANTARA) - The Padang City Water Corporation has begun repairing a number of pipes and water treatment installations damaged by floods and heavy rains that lashed the city
The heavy volume of flood water caused damage in several areas PDAM's Intakes and Water Treatment Plants (IPA), including Palukah, Taban, Sungai II, Sariak, Guo, Gambir, Garing, Latung, and Bungus intakes.
The Technical Director of Padang Water Perumda Andri Satria said in Padang on Thursday that several intake problems had caused the distribution of water to be cut off to the community.
“Of the eight problematic intakes, we have started repairing seven of them. There is still one Palukahan Intake that cannot be repaired, because it was affected by the flood last night, so the Intake with a capacity of 500 liters per second cannot operate for the next week," he said while reviewing the recovery process at IPA II Sungai Latung, LubukMinturun.
He conveyed that the Padang Water Perumda technicians are working on the process of normalizing water pipes so that the community can get clean water again.
“We are trying to normalize the eight intakes, such as cleaning the waste material, sand, coral, and stones that pile up the intakes. As a result, there is only one intake that has not been able to recover because there is a broken pipe," he said.
“Three sub-districts were affected by the flood last night, namely Koto Tangah, Kuranji, and Nanggalo. Approximately 45 thousand customers have not received clean water distribution until now. We cannot provide access first because there is no water to distribute,” said Andri.
For the time being, the Padang City Water Supply Corporation is trying to ensure that the community continues to get a supply of clean water and distributes it through tank cars during emergency conditions.
"We are improving gradually from now on. So, some will soon have access to clean water. Our solution so far is that we will provide clean water services through tank water, but of course it will be quite limited and not as much as through pipelines.” he said.
