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GEORGE TOWN: Emergency support teams in Penang are fully prepared to handle landslides and flash floods during the current spell of wet weather.

At Penang Hill in Ayer Itam, members of the Penang Hill Maintenance and Landscape Unit are carrying out routine checks daily.

“Every day, our teams will go around the hills to monitor the hotspots for landslides. And if they come across situations such as clogged drains or fallen tree branches, they would attend to them immediately,” he said.Local residents who join their maintenance operations occasionally are also on full alert.

“When drains are clogged, water would overflow and splash onto the slopes, which is very damaging and would lead to soil erosion, so we pay extra attention to these things even though they may seem minor,” he added. In a statement, the MBPP said the works included slope stabilisation and a proposed road that would pass through land belonging to the state government.

 

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