FLOOD DISASTER

CARA MENGATASI BANJIR DI KAYEN, PATI, JAWA TENGAH 

Banjir yang terjadi di kayen sudah 3-4 kali baru-baru ini. Banjir biasanya terjadi pada musim penghujan. Di bulan oktober tahun 2010 desa kayen pernah dilanda banjir 2 kali dalam jangka waktu 2 hari. Desa kayen jika diguyur hujan selama beberapa jam pasti akan banjir, tetapi banjir langsung surut.

Penyebab-penyebab desa kayen banjir, antara lain :

• ·         Keserakahan manusia
• ·         Banyak warga yang membuang sampah di sungai
• ·         Penyempitan sungai-sungai yang ada di kayen
• ·         Penebangan pohon secara liar yang ada kawasan hulu
• ·         Hujan yang sangat deras

           Bencana banjir yang ada di desa kayen mengakibatkan warga mengalami kerugian. Kerugian-kerugian yang dialami warga desa Kayen, antara lain :

• ·         Banyak petani yang gagal panen karena sawah di genangi banjir
• ·         Jalan raya macet karena digenangi air kira-kira 60 cm
• ·         Warga ada yang tidak bisa bekerja karena macet
• ·         Murid-murid tidak dapat masuk sekolah karena banyak sekolahan    yang   kebanjiran
• ·         Barang-barang hanyut terbawa banjir

Cara mengatasi banjir di kayen :

• ·         Membuat Saluran air yang baru
• ·         Menanam pohon di kawasan hulu seperti Durensawit, Beketel, dan Purwokerto
• ·         Tidak membuang sampah di sungai
• ·         Pelebaran dan pengerukan sungai
• ·         Tidak menebang pohon secara liar di kawasan hulu

         Banjir di Kayen dapat diatasi jika kita bisa merawat lingkuangan.

HOW TO COPE FLOOD IN KAYEN, PATI

MIDDLE JAVA

 Floods that occurred in Kayen has 3-4 times recently. Flooding usually occurs in the rainy season. In October 2010 the village had been flooded kayen 2 times within 2 days.  Kayen village if rain for several hours would be flooding, but floods subside immediately.

Causes kayen village floods, among others,

• ·         Human greed
• ·         Many residents who throw the rubish in the river
• ·         Refinements rivers in kayen
• ·         Illegal felling of existing trees upstream
• ·         Region which is very heavy rain

Existing flood disaster in the Kayen village result in residents experiencing losses. Disadvantages experienced by villagers kayen, among others

• ·         Many farmers who harvest failure due to flooded rice fields
• ·         The road jammed because of flooded about 60 cm
• ·         Residents there who can not work because of traffic jams
• ·         The students can not attend school because many schools are flooded
• ·         lot of stuff that floods washed away

How to cope flood in Kayen :

• ·         create a new water channel
• ·         plant trees in upstream areas such as Durensawit, Beketel, and Purwokerto
• ·         not throw the rubbish in the river
• ·         widening and dredging the river
• ·         Not cutting down trees illegally in the upstream region

Floods in Kayen can be overcome if we can take care of the environment.