SARAWAK
is now prepared to face the coming monsoon season, which is most likely to
bring floods.
Updates from Natural Resources and Environment
Minister Datuk Seri Douglas Uggah Embas have revealed that more than 50 new
telemetry systems were installed at newly-discovered flood-prone areas in the
state recently.
He said, since the last bad flood in 2009,
flood-prone areas had increased and there was a need to improve the old system
and install new ones.
There are about 400 telemetry systems
throughout the state. While new ones are being installed, the old ones will be
improved.
Unfortunately, many areas in the state are
still not reached by the cell phone network, which renders some mobile-reliant
systems useless. In such cases, authorities will rely on manual systems where
an observer will go to the location and look at the water level, Uggah told
reporters after opening the World Rivers Day at the Kuching Waterfront
yesterday.
He said the working telemetry systems would
send data in real time to the Central Information Centre where officers monitor
the situation closely in case of flood.
Uggah said the preparations for the monsoon
season would be discussed at the National Security Council meeting to be
chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin on November 15.
He said that Sarawaks main concern was the
poor cellular coverage, which would hamper the telemetry and early warning
systems and communications, and this would be discussed at the meeting.
Meanwhile, Uggah said that a flood diversion
canal being built in Kuching was now on its second phase.
He said the contractors and engineers were in
the final phase of drawing up the canals southern part under a rolling plan at
a cost of RM90 million.
The completion date would be announced once
the plans drawings were done, he added.
Our initial cost of RM1.5 billion for the
whole project covers a barrage, causeways, bridges and other components, said
Uggah.
The project initiated in 2009 in-volved the
construction of a 8.2-kilometre canal and a dyke from Sarawak Ri-ver to the
South China Sea to overcome floods in the city by the end of the 11th Malaysia
Plan period in 2020.
The Star/ANN
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