Each Year Seven Meter Abrasion Dumai Beach

Kamis, 4 Maret 2010 16:16 WIB

Dumai, 4/3 (ANTARA) - Dumai City Environment worrying rate of coastal abrasion that occurred in the eastern coastal city of Riaus because each year seven meters into the sea eroded land."Abrasion coast have been worrying about what happened and based on our research data each year, seven meters of land eroded into the sea," said Head of Environment Office Dumai City, Zulfa Indra in Dumai, Thursday.He said this in 2010, it has been proposed budget allocation for prevention and maintenance of coastal areas. If the budget is not passed, it is feared the abrasion will accelerate.According to him, the former mangrove plants are scattered along the shoreline Dumai now lost a lot not only hit the waves, but also changes in the location identity."Even if there are areas of mangrove forests form only young plants, for it requires funding for maintenance can be performed optimally," said Zulfa.He explained that mangrove replanting budget along the shoreline were also desperately needed to anticipate the widespread damage to land by sea water wave impulse that each year more and more threatening the mainland population by extending the mangrove forests.According to him, every year seven meters of land eroded by water, while the depth of crushed rock beach six feet of water.Zulfa said that if the Environment Dumai City this year did not get a portion of abrasion prevention budget revenue budget in Dumai City in an attempt to prevent abrasion, the abrasion rate will get worse and more threatening life on the mainland."The budget we submitted to the Fiscal Year 2009 and amounted to Rp3 billion. The fund is not enough in prevention efforts with maximum abrasion damage, especially if there is no budget allocation in this year filed around Rp5 billion," he said.For information, during the 2009 budget year ago, Dumai City Environment was planting efforts in order to prevent abrasion manggrove beaches along the flat coastal areas as many as 10,000 stems.But from 10 thousand stems manggrove which can only survive and grow only about 60 percent, while the rest were dead and drifting sea waves hit.***