Kampung Kasipillay Flood Mitigation Project Ready By Year-Endhttp://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsgeneral.php?id=473911

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 6 (Bernama) -- A flood mitigation project involving a 1.3-km floodwall on the right bank of Sungai Batu and a pumphouse, in Kampung Kasipillay, Sentul, is to be completed by the end of the year.Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon said on Saturday the project, costing more than RM3 million and incorporating landscaping, was started in March last year.This second phase of flood mitigation was being handled through close cooperation between the Kampung Kasipillay Rukun Tetangga (Neighbourhood Watch) and the government, he told reporters after attending a briefing on the floodwall and pumphouse by the Kuala Lumpur Drainage and Irrigation Department (JPS) and Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL), here. He also visited the Rukun Tetangga sector."JPS had allocated more than RM3 million for the project and DBKL approved RM2 million for the pumphouse in the Sungai Batu catchment area involving installation of mains over 500 metres," he said.The first phase of the project involved the diversion of Sungai Keroh over 2.2 km, and had been going on since August last year and exceeded the completion deadline twice.Dr Koh said the project was implemented after flash floods, of between one and two metres in depth, inundated the area and trapped thousands of people in March last year.Several roads such as Jalan Ipoh, Jalan Tun Ismail, Jalan Rahmat, Jalan Sentul, Jalan Kasipillay and Jalan Duta were flooded, he said.On the Rukun Tetangga, Dr Koh said more housing estates in the country should set up these sectors to attract the younger generation of the various communities to join the neighbourhood watch in line with the 1Malaysia concept.He said the Kampung Kasipillay Rukun Tetangga sector was the oldest in the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, having been set up in 1975 and launched by then prime minister, Tun Abdul Razak Hussein, and was the best model for the government to emulate to forge unity.-- BERNAMA