Paddy -fields in Lebak flooded, the serpan tolwater channel is normalized

Jakarta – Rice fields at the edge of the Serang Panimbang (Serpan) Tol Road, the border of Cibadak and Cikulur, Lebak Regency, Banten, were flooded. Government and toll managers have agreed to normalize the water channel over the rice countries. The head of the Banten Provincial Agricultural Office, Agus Tauchid, said the underwater was rice fields between Tambak Baya Village (Cibadak) and Sukadaya Village (Cikulur). In Tambak Baya Village, an area flooded with an area of two hectares, and an area threatened with an area of three hectares. The age of planting is planted only up to 30 days after planting. Browse to continue with temporary content in Sukadaya Village, an area inundated with an area of three hectares, and seven hectares are threatened. The age of planting is seven days to 36 days after planting. “There was no puso,” Agus said Friday (8/8/2025). According to Agus, the condition of the land surface is lower than country and parallel to the water channel that crosses rice fields. The water flow comes in the roofs of the Toll Road in the Tambak Baya Village area. “High rainfall over the past two days, on August 6 and 7, 2025, which causes rainwater to soak the rice fields. It is common, both before and after the Tol Road,” Agus said. According to him, the roofs of the water channel are in line with the standard and adapt to the width of the water channel. The presence of waterways is considered the flow, both if the output is normal, or if it rains heavy. “Conditions on the soil reinforce the results of the discussion that one of the causes of flooding and overwhelming is a small upstream water channel, as well as the system of the soil and the narrowing of the channel width to the downstream,” he said. Agus said there was an agreement with PT Wika contractor, as the toll manager, to normalize the water channel. For the three -meters radius to the outside, Pt Wika will be done. While the village of Tambak Baya was asked for further areas to first send a request for normalization to the PT Wika contractor. “Tambak Baya Village, Cibadak district, which is on the path of the toll road and water channels, is requested on behalf of the landowners next to the water channel to submit a request for the normalization of the downstream channel until the water can flow to the final of the river in the Tambak Baya dorps area,” he said. (AIK/WHN)