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The Solution on Flood in People’s Circumstance as the Impact of Mill Reservoir Development



The Solution on Flood in People’s Circumstance as the Impact of Mill Reservoir Development

InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – Palm oil mill (POM) is the place to storage and keep fresh fruit bunch (FFB) both from the smallholders and the company’s plantations. To build POM it needs plans which should be the same with the development project in the location.

It needs to pay attention to develop or construct POM, such as, potential available FFB from the plantations where they are around POM. Some other factors to notice in POM construction are the location should be around the good potential FFB production, the land structure that could possibly construct POM, source of water used, and environment itself.

In this article the writer would discuss water aspect which POM uses. In one area, there is source of water. It means there is life because water is the most important thing for every creature including industries namely to operate POM. The source of water is used to POM operational. It could be from many sources, such as, river or from lower parts of the ground. Some POMs even use source of water from the rain drop.

The sources of water would be sucked up and flown to reservoir in POM areas. The reservoir that the company constructed would function to POM operational. It would deliver advantages, such as, keep the water reserves, to operate POM, flow to housing, office, staff’s mess, and employees’ houses.

In this article the writer would discuss water aspect which POM uses. In one area, there is source of water. It means there is life because water is the most important thing for every creature including industries namely to operate POM. The source of water is used to POM operational. It could be from many sources, such as, river or from lower parts of the ground. Some POMs even use source of water from the rain drop.

The sources of water would be sucked up and flown to reservoir in POM areas. The reservoir that the company constructed would function to POM operational. It would deliver advantages, such as, keep the water reserves, to operate POM, flow to housing, office, staff’s mess, and employees’ houses.

It is clear that the goal of constructing water reservoir in POM could optimize water by minimizing the possible loss factors, such as, the lack of water because of drought in dry season and prevent the abundant water that triggers flood in rainy season.

Actually, the advantages of constructing water reservoir by the company, are, to gather water to prevent flood besides irrigation. The question remains, why do some cases take place that the people’s areas are in flood because of mill reservoir construction?

In this case, it needs to get depth review which the flood happened as the impact of stagnant water. The first, take a look back the geography of the people’s areas in food which could be next to mill’s water reservoir. Know the location – is it hilly or flat location?

Re-study the flow direction of the water source – is it heading to the people’s circumstance, what is the location form of the people’s circumstance? If it is like basin, one thing for sure, it is the location to gather water and normal if the water gathers in the location and becomes a reservoir/pool. It is impossible to construct or develop POM and other infrastructures without having deeper research and studies about the impacts and factors both pre and post development. If there was no study, environment documents (analysis about environmental impact, environmental management, environmental monitoring, environmental management documents, and other) would not be published.

By: Edwin Leonardo Armay, ST /Palm oil plantation practitioner (Former Public Relation Supervisor at PT. Semunai Sawit Perkasa and former SSL at KPN Plantation)

For more, please read InfoSAWIT, December 2022


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