Garbage pollutes catchment area

Garbage pollutes catchment area

BEKASI: Local residents have complained about the stench from
garbage dumped on a 3,000-square-meter water catchment area on
Jl. Cikunir Raya.

Nobody knows who turned the water catchment into a dump, but
residents are claiming that people arrive by car to dump rubbish
there.

Bekasi councillor Qisas Rachman said the local administration
should take action against those polluting the water catchment.

"We urge Mayor Akhmad Zurfaih not to ignore this matter, as
well as have the area cleaned up," he said as quoted by Antara on
Friday.

He also said the mayoralty should evict illegal squatters
along Jl. Cikunir Raya. --JP