Kotabaru, South Kalimantan (ANTARA) - The District Government of Kotabaru, South Kalimantan, ensures availability of clean water for residents after inaugurated raw water intake with a pipeline network in Sebelimbingan Village that has a capacity of about 3,000 cubic meter which will be distributed to Gunung Reli Water Treatment Plant (IPA).
“This raw water intake and transmission pipeline network is expected to help water company PDAM to improve services to all customers in Kotabaru,” said Regent of Kotabaru Sayed Jafar here, Thursday.
He confirmed that tthe improvement and search for new sources and construction of new intake will continue to be carried out in 2023 to meet the need of clean water for the public.
The raw water intake that he recently inaugurated will be distributed to regional clean water company (PDAM) customers in Pulau Laut Utara and Pulau Laut Sigam sub-districts.
Head of the Kotabaru Public Works and Spatial Planning (PUPR) Agency Suprapti Tri Astuti said the contruction of the water intake using the 2022 Revised Budget from the the agency's DPA (budget implementation document) with a ceiling of IDR17.4 billion and a contract period of 75 working days reaching a value of IDR16 billion.
“As for supervision contract IDR354 million, construction services carried out by PT Putra Kalimantan Bersatu, while supervisory provider was CV Tika Kreatif Desain Konsultan," she expounded.
Sebelimbingan water intake was built in form of dam or reservoir with a specification of steel concrete with K250 concrete quality, a crest height of 2.5 meters and inundation area of approximately 1,875 cubic meters, and pool volume of 4,687,5 cubic meters.
"With that capacity it can serve 38 thousand residents in Pulau Laut Utara," Suprapti said.
She also explained that Kotabaru has sufficient raw water availability, but the facilities and volume of water processing owned by the local government is still small around 30 cubic meters in Gunungsari, then 40 cubic meters in Gunung Ulin.
"If we want to meet the need of our comunity, we have to build another clean water treatment plant of approximately 100 cubic meters for each," said Suprapti.
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