Chaotic Weekend

Hell... I just reached home at 4.00am from my office, in less than 4 hours I have to go back to office work again. My working company is going to tender some projects and today by afternoon is the closing time for the tender. We all work till 3.40am just to compiling the tender documents. I decided stay awake, if I sleep now I won't able to wake up on time.

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Is it deja vu? Or it just a coincidence? Back in 4 years ago on the same date (10/6/2003) KL was hits by heavy flash flood. Two days ago (10/6/2007) it happens again. This time the flash flood really made everyone doubtful with the SMART (Stormwater Management And Road Tunnel) tunnel we have now, why it still can't solve the flash flood problem in central of KL?


Let me explain what I know about it, I'm here not on the side of any party, I just pointing out what I know from my research and study on it before.

I was with DID (Department of Irrigation and Drainage) for five years until I left the department two months ago to join a private company which I'm working now. I was involved with the flash flood on 10/6/2003 and I will never forget the date, it was the worst flash flood I ever seen in my life with my own eyes.

Last Sunday I saw the rain was so terrible and I was thinking, this kind of rain sure will cause a serious flash flood, guess what? It really happened! Today during lunch hour I flipped some newspapers and I saw the flash flood in KL was so bad, then I read many parties keep point fingers to DID that the SMART tunnel is a failure. Now I really want to voice up to correct the statements.

For your all information, SMART tunnel is still not fully completed for the water way. It only open for traffic, not for water yet. The water outlet located at Taman Desa pond is still under construction. Not only that, the downstream of Sungai Kerayong at Old Klang Road which is the outlet from the Taman Desa pond is also still under construction. This is why the SMART tunnel is still not fully functioning as a component of flood mitigation.

I also saw the newspaper reported SMART was flood by rain water, when I saw the picture I really laughed off, it wasn't SMART, it's the under pass at Jalan Tun Razak which near to RHB Bank. If they reported outside of SMART was flooded then it really make sense to me. The usual flooded area outside of SMART is at near Sungai Besi air field, the Sungai Kerayong always over flow to the road.

Look proper, it's the underpass, not SMART

As I did some research and run on modeling software on SMART for my thesis in the past, it only can reduce the flash flood at central of KL especially at Masjid Jamek that area. With the current development, it estimate can hold up to 2 hours of rain fall (100 years return period). Frankly speaking, I felt SMART is a waste of money, no matter how advance you do, you still can't solve the flash flood problems, you only can reduce it.

From geographically, KL is located in a valley called Klang Valley, all the rain water will flow into the catchment. Secondly, improper development, squatters poor drainage design and rubbish are also are the components which caused flash flood. So, who you think should to blame on it?

Dataran Merdeka basement car park

At Jalan Sultan Ismail

I also track back the rain fall data, it really showed that the rain fall was unusual. So, let's wait the SMART is fully complete then only we judge on it. So far the result from my modeling simulation, it's quite work, but in reality I don't think it works exactly the same result as I got.

*All pictures were taken from www.thestar.com.my*

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