Kota Kemuning assemblyman S Preakas said the areas frequently hit by floods include Taman Sri Muda, Desa Kemuning and Bukit Kemuning. (Bernama pic)
PETALING JAYA: Kota Kemuning assemblyman S Preakas has urged the Malaysian Highway Authority (LLM) to immediately allow the construction of a bund to prevent recurring floods at Taman Sri Muda.
Preakas said it was unacceptable that floods were still happening in Taman Sri Muda after the devastating floods in 2021 which killed 14 people.
He said the delays were a failure of administration and coordination, and that residents were bearing the burden of evacuations and financial losses.
“I understand the delay in construction was approved by LLM, but I urge LLM to immediately allow flood mitigation project contractors to build a bund that will block waterflow to Jalan Mantap and prepare a new drainage system to divert water flow from Kemuning Utama to Sri Muda.
“There is no longer any reason to delay this critical approval,” he said in a statement today.
Preakas also urged the drainage and irrigation department (DID) to expedite the construction of a tidal gate at Sungai Rasau, saying the delay had indirectly led to flooding in Taman Desa Kemuning.
He repeated his call for the Selangor government to make flood mitigation its top priority, saying the “excuse that ‘work is being carried out’ cannot be used to cover up delays and poor coordination anymore”.
“The people of Sri Muda and Bukit Kemuning have waited too long,” he said.
In June, Preakas urged the government to speed up its implementation of flood mitigation projects and review the efficacy of existing systems to overcome his constituency’s long battle with floods.
He said the areas frequently hit by floods included Taman Sri Muda, Desa Kemuning, Bukit Kemuning, Taman Lanchong Jaya, Taman Greenville and Kampung Bukit Lanchong.
In 2022, former Kota Kemuning assemblyman V Ganabatirau also called for the DID to restore the bund in Taman Sri Muda, after fresh floods struck a number of houses that had barely recovered from the December 2021 floods.
