The Tirta Altara 64 Team, representatives of 2016 Water Resources Engineering (WRE) students succeeded in becoming 1st place in the Dam Innovation Contest contest, Diponegoro University Semarang, 12-15 November 2019.

Under the guidance of Dr. Runi Asmaranto, ST., MT., team that consists of Muhammad Fahmi Khoiruddin, Haidar Naufal Majid, and Ekhsan Zainuri carried out work on Planning for Flood Control Dam on Urban Narrow Land.

The three 2016 WRE students made a work with the title Integrated Innovation Long Storage Detention Dam for urban flood control with the concept of Economy, Environment, and Social Development (Ecencial-Dev).

One of the team members, Ekhsan said that this work was motivated by the rapid increase in population in big cities in Indonesia which has an impact on increasing demand for water resources.

“Not only is the need for water resources rising, but also changes in land use that can cause damage to watersheds (DAS), one of the impacts is the  floods,” he said.

According to data from the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) in 2019, from January to February there have been 88 flood events which caused a loss of 90,274 people and damaged houses as many as 952 units.

Based on that problem, dams in urban areas can be a solution, but the construction creates many obstacles, including limited land and the possibility of land acquisition being unable to be done.

“Can use the river as a flood basin. Therefore, innovative solutions are needed supported by synergy between the government and the community to solve the complexity of the problem,” Fahmi added.

Thus the team planned the innovation of the construction of a flood control dam in a limited urban area with poor soil quarry conditions and planned the concept of building a flood control dam in synergy between the government and the community. (mic)