TERAS7.COM – River water in Banjarbaru City is known to be in the moderately polluted category, this is because the Water Quality Index (IKA) value is only 55.81.With the acquisition of the IKA score, bathing in the river by the people of Banjarbaru City, especially those on the banks of the river is still allowed, but it is better not to do it.This was conveyed directly by the Head of the Spatial Management Division of the Banjarbaru City Environmental Service, Rusmilawati through the Field Sub Coordinator, Hafid to teras7.com, on Wednesday (08/06/2022)."As for bathing, it's not a problem because it's only lightly polluted, but we suggest it's better not to take a bath," he said.Hafid continued, it is not recommended for the people of Banjarbaru City to bathe in the river, because his party only carried out 8 lab tests or parameters for the feasibility of river water quality.Thus, the more detailed content of other compounds or bacteria in river water cannot be known for sure, which is feared to be dangerous to the community.There are 8 IKA parameters in the Banjarbaru City river, namely water pH levels, BOD (Biological Oxygen Demand), COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand), TSS (Total Suspended Solid), DO (Dissolved oxygen), NO3°N (Nitrate is a natural inorganic ion part from the cycle of nitrogen compounds with the molecular formula NO3- and a molecular mass of 62.0049 g/mol), Total Phosphate, and faecal coliforms or bacteria found in feces.Of the 8 quality feasibility test parameters, he explained that samples were taken from upstream, middle, and downstream river water in Banjarbaru City."So we take samples of upstream, middle and downstream river water, to do a water quality index lab test, from the lab results it can be concluded whether it is included in the IKA Existing category, the category meets, light, medium, and heavy," he explained.Meanwhile, Farid Maulana as the Head of RT 03 Guntung Paikat, which is also close to the Kemuning River, revealed that the people use river water only for disposing of waste left over from washing clothes."It's not used for anything, just for the disposal of water used for washing clothes," he said.Meanwhile, for bathing activities, let alone using river water for drinking, according to Farid, people use their own wells."No (for bathing), here we use a well, let alone it is used for drinking, I have never seen it in my life," he concluded.The city of Banjarbaru itself, through data obtained from the Environmental Service (DLH) has 5 rivers, namely the Durian River, Kemuning River, Guntung Payung River, Tonhar River and Basung River.Type above and press Enter to search.Press Esc to cancel.Login below or Register Now.A password will be e-mailed to you.