Water firm starts pipe project

Water firm starts pipe project

The construction of a 11.5 kilometer long pipe with a diameter
of 1.6 meters from the Tarum Barat river in East Jakarta to the
Pejompongan water treatment plant in Central Jakarta is expected
to be completed in November next year.

M.N. Mansoer, the head of the technical division of the
project, said over the weekend that the construction of the water
main was aimed at delivering water to the Pejompongan water
treatment plant.

"The water main can carry 6.20 cubic meters of raw water per
second," Mansoer said.

According to the project blueprint, Mansoer said, the water
main's construction, which began last May, would start from Jl.
D.I. Panjaitan in East Jakarta and then pass Jl. Kampung Melayu
Besar through South Jakarta's Jl. Lapangan Roos, Jl. Casablanca,
Jl. Kartanegara, Jl. Jend. Sudirman to Central Jakarta's Jl. K.H.
Mansyur, Jl. Penjernihan and eventually to Jl. Pejompongan.

Mansoer said that, of the Rp 95.4 billion (US$44 million)
funds made available for financing the project, around 60 percent
were loans from the World Bank and the remaining 40 percent were
taken from the state budget.

The project will be jointly constructed by two state-owned
contractors under the Ministry of Public Works --PT Wijaya Karya,
PT Nindya Karya and PT Yala Perkasa International, a private
developer (arf)