Department checking Kingfisher, Bunga Raja water woes
Published on: Friday, May 03, 2024
By: Sidney Skinner
The contractor’s workers removing the building debris at this section of the shops in Taman Bunga Raja.
REPAIRS are underway on a leaking underground water pipe in one part of Taman Kingfisher which has given rise to supply problems along eight housing roads in this part of Inanam.
Water Department staff had also been asked to step up efforts to check on its distribution mains in the neighbourhood, and in Taman Bunga Raja, to ensure that consumers are not unduly inconvenienced by pipe-bursts or its efforts to maintain these installations.
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This action follows feedback from two Kingfisher homeowners about the intermittent tapwater which they had been receiving for close to a fortnight.
A shop-operator also spoke out about the half-hearted work performed by one of the agency’s contractors who dealt with a damaged pipe servicing the commercial centre in Taman Bunga Raja last month.
An excavator was deployed to enable the Department’s staff to reach the damaged pipe on Lorong Ujana Kingfisher 15.
These individuals furnished Hotline with their particulars, including their location address, which were forwarded to the Department.
A spokesman for the authority said a diversion was being fashioned at one section of Lorong Ujana Kingfisher 15 where a leak was discovered late last week.
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He said the burst involved a 150mm mid-steel-cement-lined (MSCL) pipe which was buried beneath the stretch.
Consumers living along Lorong Ujana Kingfisher 11, Lorong Ujana Kingfisher 12, Lorong Ujana Kingfisher 13, Lorong Ujana Kingfisher 14, Lorong Ujana Kingfisher 15, Lorong Kingfisher 21, Lorong Kingfisher 22 and Lorong Kingfisher 23 were forewarned to use the reserves in their storage tanks sparingly.
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A notice to this affect was issued last Friday by the Department over social media, according to the spokesman.
“The length of the road, which had to be dug up, was measured up on Monday,” he said.
“An excavator was deployed to help our technicians reach the affected mains and they were still working to put the diversion in place on yesterday afternoon.”
The spokesman said the Department was keeping an eye on the progress of this work to ensure that the supply in the area stabilised as soon as possible.
SOFFIE, who lives on Lorong Kingfisher 21, bemoaned the inconvenience caused by the lack of water in her home.
“The water in our storage tank is almost depleted,” she said, adding that the taps in his home had run dry for the past four days.
“We have taken to drinking bottled water and not taking our meals at home because of this.”
She said, prior to this, the supply had been erratic.
“The strength of the tap water is comparable to that of a young child urinating.
She said there was so little force in the water that the supply could barely reach the tank for her home.
Soffie said she had tried contacting the Department several times about this problem.
Another consumer whose house was located on Lorong Kingfisher 22, one ARCHY, said he had written to the agency’s administration twice about the supply problems he had been experiencing for the past two weeks.
“I didn’t receive a response to either of my e-mails and, in the meantime, my water woes have only become worse,” he said.
“It became too much for me and my wife at one point, so much so, that we checked into a hotel in Inanam for a time just to get some relief.”
The Department is in the midst of having a diversion fashioned in this part of Taman Kingfisher
Meanwhile, a contractor, who replaced a leaking pipe at one section of the commercial centre in Taman Bunga Raja, has repaired a section of the walkway outside a shop, off Lorong Bunga Raja 1.
The spokesman said this was done shortly after the Department was informed by the media about the damaged pavement.
“A preliminary check revealed that the contractor had left the walkway in a bad condition,” he said.
“He was told to reinstate the areas which were damaged when his workers dug down to the burst section of the supply line beneath the road.
The contractor, subsequently, returned with his staff to clear the excess building debris from this part of the commercial centre.
“Concrete was later was poured over the affected sections of the walkway.”
The spokesman said the agency’s personnel later returned to double-check that the pavement near the shop there had been properly restored.
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