Research Article Volume 3 Issue 6
1Department of Geography Education, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesia
2Mapping Survey and Geography Information, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesia
Correspondence: Dede Sugandi, Department of Geography Education, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Indonesia
Received: November 28, 2019 | Published: December 24, 2019
Citation: Sugandi D, Pascawijaya R. Decreasing the surface run-off through the rainfall absorption in Bandung Basin.
Expansion of built-up area was increasing the surface run-off. This research conducted in Bandung basin and aims to analyzing land use change, volume of rainfall that was not absorbed by built-up area and the attempts to decrease surface run-off volume in the built-up area. Method that used is spatial analysis. The formula calculates the volume of rain: Ih=LxK, and to measures the volume of rainfall: V=RxA. The built-up area changes from 458,507,000m2 to 535,155,000m2. The results depict built-up area change from 458,507,000m2 to 535,155,000m2. The built-up area expansion affected the increase in surface run-off from the average volume of 34,250,473m3 to 39,079,976m3. The way to decrease the volume of flooding which continously increased is by absorbing the volume of rainfall in each built-up area of every 100m2. The highest rainfall volume in December has been up to 1,100m3 in order that each built-up area of 100m2 have to absorb rainfall of 1,100m3 in the infiltration wells. Because the built-up area is different, it is calculated from the thickness of the rainfall multiplied by large, then the volume of rainfall must be absorbed. By storing and absorbing the rainfall in each built-up area, the surface run-off could be avoided in the area of Bandung basin.
Keywords: geography, surface, run-off, rainfall, absorption, bandung, basin, flooding, land-use changes, agriculture, forests, and plantations
One of the implications of population concentration is changes in land function, such as from agricultural lands to non-agricultural lands or from non-agricultural lands to another non-agricultural land use. Limited lands and the dynamics of the urban community's activities cause competition in land uses and land-use changes.1 The concentration of population has demanded to build various facilities such as housing, social and public facilities. The existing land is indispensable side to construct facilities as changing the land use from agriculture, forests, and plantations to residential land and public and social facilities.2,3 As a consequence, the conversion of land use to meet life needs influences land surface characteristics of flow.4,5 The land-use changes play an essential role in the water balance changes in Goseng catchment, indicated by increasing surface run-off along with the decline of vegetation cover.6
However, population growth and migration in limited land encourage people to live in disaster-prone areas.7,8 The environment can be defined as the surroundings in which an entity operates. It includes air, water, land, natural resources, flora, fauna, humans and their interrelation.9 Changes in land use and land cover are significant in global climate Change.10 The Kelani River watershed includes 23% of the total urban area of the Colombo district. Similarly, the entire area of land-use transformation covered 37.7% of the area within the watershed region of the Colombo district. Eventually, this research identified the significant impact of Colombo district floods in May 2016 on land-use changes.11
The impact of the population’s concentration is an obstacle in gaining the standard of sustainable life quality because it affects environmental quality. The urbanization has led to severe environmental problems in ZJP, not only on the city scale but also on the regional scale. Maintaining a balance between the continuing process of urbanization and environmental sustainability is a significant issue facing the local government.12 Land-use change is a crucial issue considering global dynamics and their response to hydrologic characteristics of soil and water management in a catchment.13 A watershed is a hydrologic unit or an area of land from which water drains, running downhill, to a shared destination or which produce water as the end product by the interaction of precipitation and the land surface.14
The concentrated population migration would form a pattern of settlements on open land affecting environmental balance. Sustainable development is a pattern of resource use that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment.15 Human beings have to utilize land, causing disturbance to the stability and equilibrium of the environment.16 Environmental balance has been in an obstacle to experiencing a sustainable decent life. Sustainable water systems often comprise complex combinations of traditional and new system components that mimic natural processes.17‒19 Urban run-off pollution is caused when the run-off while travelling across the urban environment, acquires contaminants that affect water quality.20 The impact of land uses can cause significant changes in the hydrological regime of a river basin.21 The increase in flood peak and a decrease of the rangelands, forests, and bare lands between 1984 and 2011, indicating a good correlation between flooding areas and land-use changes.22
Expansion of built-up area such as settlements and commercial buildings shapes a waterproof layer. The peak flow is faster in the watershed area as the potential for flooding.23,24 The hydrological conditions upstream of the Ciliwung watershed are changing due to climate and land-use changes. Any changes in this area may increase the flood frequencies, which may have incalculable consequences downstream of the watershed where the Jakarta city is located.25
The healthy environment must be kept and maintained because sustainable life is influenced by environmental sustainability. Collaborative conservation strategies for protecting and managing natural resources help in creating a healthy eco-system. A collaborative approach gives a chance in which conservation issues are targeted collectively by using adaptive management of whole eco-systems, including human communities.26 Settlement on floodplains contributes to flooding disasters by endangering humans and their assets. However, the economic benefits of living on the floodplain outweigh the dangers for some societies. Pressures from population growth and shortages of land also promote settlement on floodplains.27 Developing, testing and implementing indicators to identify and assess vulnerability to floods is an essential pre-requisite for effective disaster risk reduction.28 Conservation is closely related to the socio-economy of the inhabitants. If the land is damaged, the sustainability of the resources will decrease, and eventually, this will impact on the sustainability of life and development.29,30 The climate change effects in the Sundarbans Mangrove forest through changing its biodiversity composition in terms of loss of wildlife habitats, which is responsible for accelerating tiger human conflicts.31 The mentioned statement reveals that the environment supports human life in which humans as environmental components that should be in the use of land always consider environmental balance.
The leading cause of surface run-off increases is due to changes in land use. Urban as a centre of human activity, as well as high population density, will induce urban areas dominated by built-up area.32 Run-off corresponding to rainfall and infiltration. In the infiltration (source) areas of PZWR (Protection Zones of Water Resources), the hydrogeological structure undergoes significant water infiltration, while large volumes of groundwater accumulate in the accumulation area.33,34 The upstream watershed has developed as a built area so that there is not enough extensive land that can be used as a retention basin. Settlement land with flood area correlates 0.849, flood height correlates 0.592, and flood height correlates 0.592.35 A review of catchment studies (n=37) conducted in East Africa evaluating the impacts of Land Use and Land Cover Changes (LULCC) on discharge, surface run-off, and low flows.36
The built-up area causes increased surface run-off while to reduce it, reducing surface run-off is through conservation. Conservation techniques such as percolation pond, check dam, etc., can be recommended for better management of land and water resources for sustainable development of the watershed.37 Agricultural and forest monitoring is a valued instrument needed by public authorities (PA) for determining land uses, planning natural resources management and collecting taxes.38 To reduce flow discharge, the rainfall must be absorbed into the soil. Jifa39 said the implication this development is decreasing of urban open space area by 1-2% per year, and followed by increased surface run-off during rain. Infiltration well is one of the efficient rainwater utilization to reduce run-off.
The expansion of built-up area gives rise to an increase in surface run-off and flooding so that the tremendous efforts overcome surface run-off and flooding by increasing the absorption. Therefore, this study aims to:
The Bandung basin has a bowl-like shape bordered by mountains as the basins seem like small rivers that empty into the upper part of Ci Tarum located on the plains of Bandung. It covers the area of Bandung City, Cimahi City, Bandung Regency, West Bandung Regency and part of Sumedang Regency. The emergence of Ci Tarum’s rivers is located in the plains region, namely, Rancaekek and Dayeukkolot. Changes in land use are by using satellite, namely Landsat 7 imagery in 2010 and Landsat 8 imagery in 2015. Steps in the analysis was preparing Landsat 7 and 8 imagery, interpretation of Landsat 7 and 8 imagery, ground check, adjusting the results of interpretation with ground check. Landsat 7 using band true color 321 (Red Green Blue) and Landsat 8 can be used band 543 (N- Infrared, red, green) to identify vegetation and water surface. The difference lies on the length of spectral range. The second identification of Landsat imagery was conducted by geometric and radiometric correction to harmonize the information of object from the imagery. The research method used is remote sensing by Software Er Mapper consisting of stages as follows: preparation, interpretation, survey, reinterpretation and report. The results of the imagery analysis were carried out the survey by data collection in the field. The analysis techniques were started from (a) cropping (b) sharpening imagery; (c) classification imagery. In the sample area, the volume of rainwater is measured on the built-up area. Volume of surface run-off is calculated from rainfall. Rainfall is calculated from 3 BMKG stations spread over 2 mountain areas and 1 in the city of Bandung. The data is the average of rainfall in 10 years, so the authors take the average of thickness in rainy day and hourly average. This is used to determine the amount of rainfall that must be absorbed in the building area.
Rh = rainfall mm/hour
Rm = rainy day/month
Rd = number of days
While the measurement of rainfall volume was evaluated by using the formula, this model is also used to measure the volume of rain that occurs in the smallest unit of the land area of 100m2, namely:
V = R x A,
V = volume (m3),
R = rainfall (mm),
A = area (km2).
Changes in land use
The Bandung is well known as a basin area because the middle of the basin is plain. Activities of population and development are concentrated in the plains region. As the logical consequence to meet the population needs, it causes changes in land use as the alteration of water movement process. The changes are being the built-up area in which rainfall that occurs on the land will become surface run-off. The wider built-up area has encouraged the land unable for absorbing rainfall. Land Use and Land Cover Change (LUCC) can reflect the pattern of human land use in a region and plays an essential role in space soil and water conservation. The Bandung basin is an area bordered by mountains, and the middle is plain. In this research, the boundaries of basin land use are by analyzing the Landsat 7 Imagery in 2010 and Landsat 7 imagery in 2015. From the results of the analysis, there are six classes of land use forms. The results of the 2010 Landsat Imagery analysis are shown on the Map which can be seen at Figure 1. The imagery of paddy fields is depicted in the dark blue, regular, square and rectangular with the embankment.
The analysis of imagery is classified into seven forms of land use shown in Map as an analysis of changes in land use form shown in Table 1.
|
|
Year |
|
|
|
|
|
2010 |
2015 |
Change |
|
|
Landuse |
Large (Km²) |
Large (Km²) |
Extends |
Narrowed |
1 |
Settlement and Industry |
458,507 |
535.155 |
76,648 |
- |
2 |
Bush |
121,337 |
129.272 |
7,935 |
- |
3 |
Plantation |
82,681 |
85.58 |
2,899 |
- |
4 |
Mixed garden |
182,685 |
182.489 |
- |
196,000 |
5 |
Forest |
265,927 |
269.243 |
- |
16,684 |
6 |
Moor |
282,569 |
395.448 |
112,879 |
- |
7 |
Paddy field |
517,791 |
334.31 |
- |
183,481 |
|
Total |
1,911,498 |
1,911,498 |
200,361 |
396,165 |
Table 1 Comparison of the Land Use Are in 2015
The area of built-up area and moor increases while the reduced area is paddy fields and forests. Changes in built-up area affect the surface as impermeable to increase water.
The volume of surface run-off
When raining, rainfall on the built-up area becomes surface run-off streaming on the surface of the land and ending in the river. The flow that moves on the built-up area is hampered by various buildings such as sidewalks, settlements and substandard drainage buildings, while the volume of the moving surface run-off increases in the river body, and it overflows as the flow on the surface will be concentrated in the plain causing flooding. The volume of a surface run-off is calculated from the average rainfall of three stations.
July is the time that has the lowest rainfall of around 35mm/day, and the highest rainfall occurs in the month of 336mm/day, whereas the lowest rainfall in hours happens in January around 0.454mm/hour, and the highest occurs in September around 1,067mm/hour. Daily rainfall that prevails calculated in units of hours, therefore rainfall is classified into 24hours. The thickness of rainfall in hours is small, but the thickness of rainfall multiplied by area will be a large volume of water (Table 2).
Station |
Jan |
Feb |
Mar |
Apr |
May |
Jun |
Jul |
Aug |
Sep |
Oct |
Nov |
Des |
Lembang |
142.1 |
221.9 |
201.8 |
204.1 |
178.5 |
62.2 |
62 |
26.9 |
60.8 |
104.5 |
299 |
262.3 |
Cisondari |
142.1 |
170.2 |
158.6 |
151 |
152.6 |
50.7 |
26.2 |
22.4 |
40.2 |
76.3 |
168.4 |
192.3 |
Cileunca |
241 |
268.7 |
266.8 |
265 |
133.8 |
57.9 |
35 |
37 |
52.7 |
118.2 |
292 |
336.9 |
Rainfall |
175.1 |
220.2 |
209.1 |
206.7 |
155 |
56.9 |
41.1 |
28.8 |
51.2 |
99.7 |
253.1 |
263.8 |
Day/rain |
16 |
16 |
15 |
16 |
7 |
3 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
4 |
13 |
15 |
Rain/day |
10.9 |
13.8 |
13.9 |
12.9 |
22.1 |
19 |
20.5 |
14.4 |
25.6 |
24.9 |
19.5 |
17.6 |
Rain/hour |
0,454 |
0,575 |
0,579 |
0,538 |
0,921 |
0,792 |
0,854 |
0,600 |
1,067 |
1,038 |
0,813 |
0,733 |
Table 2 Monthly average rainfall (mm) in 2006-2015
Source: Dinas PU Pengairan, 2016
The presented Table 3 shows that the thickness of rainfall is small but multiplied by the area of built-up area into an enormous volume of water. The built-up area in 2010 was 458,507,000m2, while in 2015 it was 535,155,000m3. The adverse effect of the change in the land into built-up area is the volume of increased surface run-off that causes flooding. To incline the volume of the flow, the enormous effort to reduce surface run-off by absorbing surface run-off is needed. Increasing the volume of recharge in large volumes requires vast land, costs and energy. Therefore, to increase surface run-off, applying the volume of rainfall falls on each building absorbed into the soil through infiltration wells. This water infiltration model is calculated for each smallest unit of land with 100m2.
Month |
Rainfall (mm/hour) |
Built Land (100m2) 2010 |
Volume (m3) |
Built-up area (100m2) 2015 |
Volume (m3) |
January |
0,454 |
20.816.218 |
24.296.037 |
||
February |
0,575 |
26.364.153 |
30.771.413 |
||
March |
0,579 |
26.547.555 |
|
30.985.475 |
|
April |
0,538 |
24.667.677 |
28.791.339 |
||
May |
0,921 |
42.228.495 |
49.287.776 |
||
June |
0,792 |
|
36.313.754 |
42.384.276 |
|
July |
0,854 |
4.585.070.000 |
39.156.498 |
5.351.550.000 |
45.702.237 |
August |
0,600 |
27.510.420 |
32.109.300 |
||
September |
1,067 |
48.922.697 |
57.101.039 |
||
October |
1,038 |
47.593.027 |
55.549.089 |
||
November |
0,813 |
37.276.619 |
43.508.102 |
||
December |
0,733 |
33.608.563 |
39.226.862 |
||
Total |
411.005.676 |
479.712.945 |
|||
Average |
|
|
34.250.473 |
39.079.976 |
Table 3 Volumes of Surface run-off in the Bandung Basin
Increased Infiltration
The volume of flowing rainfall built-up area needs to be absorbed into the soil based on the volume of rainfall in the smallest unit. As built-up area is in a different large, thickness of rainfall that falls on a building multiplied by its land area then obtained by rainfall volume. For more accessible, the smallest unit model of a building 100 m2 is required to construct. With this volume, it will be easy to calculate the water that needs to be absorbed. The volume of flow inland units per 100m2 with the duration of rain in 5 and 10hours is shown in Table 4. The constructed land model of the entire area is divided into the smallest unit of land area per 100m2 so that there are 5,351,550,000 with the volume of water/hour/day. Rainfall often occurs, especially the rainy season and the frequency of rain in a month as many as 16days. The duration of rain in a day can reach more than 10hours. This study uses old rain models about 5 and 10hours, in order that an illustration of the water volume falling on the built-up area in the smallest unit of 100m3 can be calculated.
Month |
Volume (m3) |
Built-up area/100m2 |
The volume of water (m3) |
Rainfall |
Rainfall time (5hours), m3 |
Rainfall time (10 hours) m3 |
January |
24.296.037 |
5.351.550.000 |
0,00454 |
16 |
0,363 |
0,726 |
February |
30.771.413 |
5.351.550.000 |
0,00575 |
16 |
0,460 |
0,920 |
March |
30.985.475 |
5.351.550.000 |
0,00579 |
15 |
0,434 |
0,869 |
April |
28.791.339 |
5.351.550.000 |
0,00538 |
16 |
0,430 |
0,861 |
May |
49.287.776 |
5.351.550.000 |
0,00921 |
7 |
0,322 |
0,645 |
June |
42.384.276 |
5.351.550.000 |
0,00792 |
3 |
0,119 |
0,238 |
July |
45.702.237 |
5.351.550.000 |
0,00854 |
2 |
0,085 |
0,171 |
August |
32.109.300 |
5.351.550.000 |
0,006 |
2 |
0,060 |
0,120 |
September |
57.101.039 |
5.351.550.000 |
0,01067 |
2 |
0,107 |
0,213 |
October |
55.549.089 |
5.351.550.000 |
0,01038 |
4 |
0,208 |
0,415 |
November |
43.508.102 |
5.351.550.000 |
0,00813 |
13 |
0,528 |
1,057 |
December |
39.226.862 |
5.351.550.000 |
0,00733 |
15 |
0,550 |
1,100 |
Table 4 The volume of surface run-off on land units per 100m2
The given Table 4 shows the rainiest days occur from November to April with the highest volume of water at 0.01067m3. If the assumed duration of rain by 5 and 10hours, it can be known that the volume of water must be absorbed into the soil. The volume of water from a land unit of 100m2 has a different volume, and the largest is 1,100m3. The rainfall that falls on each built-up area is entering the infiltration wells, so it did not become the surface run-off. Rainfall on land cover whose water will be stored in infiltration wells, including parking lots, roof area, and pavement roads, buildings and others. This infiltration wells are effective for collecting and absorbing rainfall.
The expansion of built-up area occurred in the Bandung basin had been analyzed from the 2010 Landsat 7 imagery and 2015 Landsat 8 imagery, showing there are seven classes of land use forms. Changes in land use from ricefields, forests, other agriculture to settlements, industries, or other buildings have affected the surface layer of the land. The soil surface that functions to absorb rainfall turns into a waterproof layer so that rainfall drops to the surface to be impermeable. By analyzing the 2010 Landsat 7 Imagery and the 2015 Landsat 7 imagery, there are seven classes of land use forms. The expansion of land usage form occurs in settlements and industries around 76,648Km2. Hence, changes in land use affect the volume of surface run-off, especially built-up area. The built-up area spreads across the plain and estuary of the tributary to Ci Tarum. Subsequently, changes to built-up area cause increased surface run-off.
The expansion of built-up area was from 458,507km2 in 2010 to 535,155km2 in 2015. The built-up area caused surface run-off rising to 57,101,039m3 in September. This surface run-off is originally from the built area and is concentrated in the plains region, namely Dayeuhkolot, Majalaya and Rancaekek. The concentration of surface run-off that makes the area experience flooding every year. The volume of surface run-off causes flooding. In order to address it, reducing surface run-off is by absorbing the rainfall on the built-up area in the smallest unit of land 100m2. By absorbing rainfall in each built-up area, then there is no rainfall into a surface run-off. The smallest unit of the land considered representative in each area of 100m2. It means each unit of land must absorb the volume of rainfall so that no rainfall becomes the surface run-off.
The volume of rainfall that drops on each of the smallest land units at least 100m2 permeates the water volume of 1,100m3 in December, with 10hours of rain. To absorb rainfall in the smallest unit, making infiltration wells that can accommodate 1,100m2 of water is needed. With the infiltration wells made on each built land 100m2, the rainfall on the built-up area will not become surface run-off. If applied to all the built-up area, the rainfall that falls on the built-up area would not be the surface run-off.
Analysis of Landsat imagery in 2010 and 2015 reveals a change in land use, especially the land expansion of 535,155km2 (535,155,000,000m2). The built-up area has a water-resistant nature so that the falling rainfall cannot absorb. The waterproof layer causes an increase in surface run-off. In 2015, the expansion of built-up area resulted in an increase in average surface run-off volume from 34,250,473m3 in 2010 to 39,079,976m3 in 2015. The highest volume of rainfall occurs in December, in order that the volume must be absorbed. With infiltration wells in each of the smallest built-up area units, rainfall does not have the potential to be surface run-off that causes flooding. Making retention ponds requires a large area, because to accommodate a very large volume. The built-up area was 535,155,000,000m3 used as the smallest unit to be 5,351,550,000m3. By the volume of rainfall having a potential as a surface run-off, it must be absorbed through infiltration wells able to permeate 1,100m3 on the built-up area of 100m2. The rainfall would not be the surface run-off by storing and absorbing them in the infiltration wells.
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