Flood location clean up

Flood location clean up

JAKARTA (JP): As many as 1,500 sanitary officials are deployed 24 hours to clean about 5,000 cubic meter of garbage in flood locations.

The head of the City Sanitary Agency, M. Subasir, said yesterday that his office has collected 4,831 cubic meters of garbage from Jan.8 to 15 and that there are still about 5,000 cubic meters left.

Most of the flood-hit locations are densely populated subdistricts. This has created serious problems for sanitary officials. "The garbage trucks cannot get into the locations because the streets are too narrow," he said.

The only way to deal with the garbage is to ask the residents to collect the garbage and put it on the streets. (yns)