Flood is a common natural disaster,
especially in Indonesia, and causes a huge amount of
material and social loss. West Sumatera is one of the
provinces that is often affected by flooding, and one of
the most affected area is Solok Selatan District. In this
district, there is a junction of two watersheds that often
affected by floods, which are Batang Suliti watershed
and Batang Bangko watershed. The junction of the
Batang Suliti river and Batang Bangko river is in
Sungai Pagu Sub-District. One example of a huge flood
occurred on February 8, 2016 where the rain occurred
for 17 hours long which caused a 0.5–3 m deep of flood
inundation and covering 11.9 km2
area. Hence, it is
necessary to know how much is the capacity of the
river’s cross-sections to accommodate the water flow
before runoff discharge occurs. In this study, we
calculate the runoff discharge using HEC-RAS 4.0
software and Q25 discharge which are 332.42 m3
/s for
the Batang Suliti river and 336.43 m3
/s for the Batang
Bangko river.
Keywords : Batang Bangko; Batang Suliti; Flood; HECRAS.