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        "msgid": "447-drilling-wells-have-no-permits-1447893297",
        "date": "2003-07-25 00:00:00",
        "title": "447 drilling wells have no permits",
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        "source": "JP",
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        "summary": "447 drilling wells have no permits Theresia Sufa The Jakarta Post Bogor A total of 447 drilling wells in the industrial estates of Citeureup, Gunung Putri and Cileungsi in Bogor regency do not have permits from the regency mining authority. \"The regency administration is powerless to take stern action against those companies that have illegal drilling wells. It's our weakness,\" agency underwater exploration head Dede Armansyah told The Jakarta Post on Thursday.",
        "content": "<p>447 drilling wells have no permits<\/p>\n<p>Theresia Sufa<br>\nThe Jakarta Post<br>\nBogor<\/p>\n<p>A total of 447 drilling wells in the industrial estates of <br>\nCiteureup, Gunung Putri and Cileungsi in Bogor regency do not <br>\nhave permits from the regency mining authority.<\/p>\n<p>\"The regency administration is powerless to take stern action <br>\nagainst those companies that have illegal drilling wells. It's <br>\nour weakness,\" agency underwater exploration head Dede Armansyah <br>\ntold The Jakarta Post on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\"The regency-run water company PDAM should be the one that <br>\ndrilled the wells but it couldn't do it due to its limited <br>\ncapacity. That's why many companies drilled the wells <br>\nthemselves.\"<\/p>\n<p>Companies should obtain permits to drill wells and pay annual <br>\ntax on underground water.<\/p>\n<p>Dede said the remaining 887 wells in the regency had permits <br>\nbut only eight had a monitoring well to monitor underground water <br>\nlevels.<\/p>\n<p>Regency bylaws state that each company with more than five <br>\ndrilled wells must have a monitoring well.<\/p>\n<p>Dede said that so far only one of the eight companies that had <br>\ndrilling wells, PT Indocement Tunggal Prakasa Tbk., had regularly <br>\nreported its water levels to the agency.<\/p>\n<p>Companies must drill more than 40 meters to get underground <br>\nwater and put concrete on the wells' walls so as not to absorb <br>\nunderground water from surrounding household artesian wells.<\/p>\n<p>The densely populated industrial area ideally should have 40 <br>\nmonitoring wells.<\/p>\n<p>\"Otherwise, Bogor will suffer from decreasing underground <br>\nwater levels like in Bandung, Jakarta and Semarang,\" Dede said.<\/p>\n<p>In Bandung regency, the underground water level was five <br>\nmeters in the 1970s but 20 years later it was 100 meters due to <br>\nuncontrolled drilling in Leuwi Gajah industrial estate.<\/p>\n<p>Dede said that the underground water level in the regency was <br>\nstill good at an average of 10 meters. In the mountain resort of <br>\nPuncak the level was only five meters.<\/p>\n<p>\"The problem is we don't know for how long we can maintain <br>\nsuch a good condition. If we have adequate monitoring wells, we <br>\ncan monitor the underground water level in this area,\" he said.<\/p>",
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