Flood in Balikpapan

The rapid development of a city has either positive or negative impact. Balikpapan, due to its strategic location, has also had rapid growth population. Consequently, the need for providing settlements is also big, which will increase the number of developers to build houses. And with the government issuing permit of real estate, it will automatically enlarge the need for land clearance. The negative impact of land clearance is that there will be flood when rainy season comes. There for strategy for overcoming flood need to be done.

                                                             

The research is conducted to find strategies for overcoming flood in the area of  KORPRI Damai Housing estate in the sub District of Sepinggan, Balikpapan. The method use in this research is descriptive qualitative where the dependent variable here is flood while the independent variable are land clearance and government policy. The result of this research is that the flood is caused by the increasing area of land clearance in the upstream area, which causes sedimentation and result in the silting up of Sepinggan River passage which finally causes flood when rainy season comes

The strategic to overcome the flood which are proposed in the research can be done by asking developers to participate in preserving the environment, specially the one owned by the developers and by applying the regulation strictly as well as commitment from law officers to take action against violation… 

The most important is the political will from the Government and House of Representatives to make regulation and approve it as a legal constitution so that law officer could take action against violation and the court institution could give punishment for it. 

Vocabulary :

Rapid                  : cepat                               passage              : saluran

Consequently          : karena itu                          proposed            : menganjurkan,mengusulkan                

Settlement            : pemukiman                         preserving           : pemeliharaan, melindungi

Clearance              : izin                                 strictly              : secara ketat

Dependent variable    : variabel yg diteliti                 violation             : pelanggaran

Independent variable : variable bebas                     approve              : menyetujui

Policy                  : kebijakan                          legal constitution   : undang-undang

Upstream              : hulu                                court                : peradilan, pengadilan

Silting up              : pendangkalan

taken from ECB Material