River Area Management In Solo City, Indonesia

Abstract

The world’s population is very high, so the world population has now reached more than 7 billion people. High number of people cause heavy burden to the regional carrying capacity, especially in urban areas, so it can lead to vulnerability, such as difficulty in providing residential land, water supply, etc. This will lead to a lot of people are forced to live in the not viable and dangerous areas as flood-plain area along the river. Flood-plain is the area between the original river channel and river embankments enabled to accommodate river discharge exceeds the capacity of the original river channel. In urban areas, due to the demand for land for residential housing is quite high, there are many dense illegal residential along the urban river, although the regulations prohibiting it. Problems occur when the flood come, because the reducing capacity of the rivers and many occupancies attacked by floods. River area management should be applied to overcome this problem including flood- plain management is enabled for a public area and when flood came, flood flow is not blocked and there is no so big damage. Such management carriedout on the flood-plain of the Solo River in Kampung Sewu, PucangSawit, Solo.