PETALING JAYA: It's raining heavily, and you're in your car heading home from work. Traffic grinds to a halt, and as water rises on the road you realise with growing alarm that you're caught in a flash flood.
The numbers show that there have been a total of 1,228 flash flood incidents in 543 locations throughout the Klang Valley from the start of 2014 to the end of 2018.While there is no official designation of its boundaries, the Klang Valley is often described as comprising Kuala Lumpur and its neighbouring Selangor districts of Petaling, Klang, Gombak, Hulu Langat, Sepang and Kuala Langat.
The second is an inability of rivers and drainage systems to handle the flow of water. This is due to sedimentation, soil erosion and growing piles of garbage thrown into rivers and drains.' "Such plans should be coordinated between the Federal Territories and Selangor as both regions share the same rivers," the report notes.
Nearby areas that have experienced floods include Jalan Batu Bata, Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah and the area near Putra World Trade Centre.This area has been flooded nine times. It is situated in a low-lying area and during heavy downpours, Sungai Bunus overflows its banks.The 2017/2018 DID annual report stated that insufficient water pipes channelling water to the drainage system is another reason for floods, along with rapid development in the area.
Water levels from the nearby Sungai Kundang often rise during heavy rain, causing it to overflow to Jalan B27, according to the DID's incident report dated 27 March, 2018.
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