Malaysia SMART Water Diversion Tunnel Tested Ok =- 3 Sep 07

The first real flood diversion at the Stormwater Management and Road Tunnel (SMART) here on Monday night was successful and has proven to be effective in reducing flash floods in the city, said Kuala Lumpur Flood Mitigation Project director K J Abraham. He said in the exercise, the Stormwater Control Centre (SCC) in the city alerted SMART's control centre when the water levels at its monitoring stations reached critical level. "SMART's control centre went into immediate action and started evacuation procedures. The process took an hour before the tunnel was closed to traffic," he told a press conference here today. Abraham said the tunnel diverted about 500,000 cubic metres of rainwater into the Taman Desa holding pond thus keeping water levels safe at the 29-metre mark at the monitoring stations.
He said floodwater subsided at midnight before SMART's control centre activated tunnel opening procedures after required inspections and cleaning work were done and that by 5am on Tuesday the tunnel was re-opened to traffic.
More details at:
http://powerpresent.blogspot.com/2007/09/more-pics-video-first-smart-tunnel.html

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[norshamhadi]

people who call this stupid cant even spell stupid. hahaha. stupid. btw, semisai.. its not a stupid idea at all since we've reduced the traffic and also preventing floods. now tell me who's stupid now? YOU right? i am a proud malaysian and i am proud of our achievements. don't be envy just because we're better than you. but if you're a malaysian like bksempoi here, be ashame of yourself.

[cahayailmu]

GO MALAYSIA!

[serisemarak]

go malaysian...we support all of you...

[penny0102]

malaysia BIGGEST " LONG KANG"

[penny0102]

arh~ ANG MO so smart~

[navigatorDNS105]

yg bg comment2 -ve dalam ni macam la pandai sangat...suruh buat nanti..baru ternganga2 smp lalat masuk dalam mulut..

[chabomzie]

i fish at tht holding pond all the time, its got some monster Tomans.

[bksempoi]

stupic thing! u r stupic...if ur computer always down, n system always failed, wat should we do. buy a new one right?

[Semisai]

Wow! ! Over SMART brain in world...I think only malaysia will do this kind of stupid thing. Got money anything can did it including stupid idea

[greenfields47]

Gamuda should help do more stormwater management road tunnels in other nations .

Gamuda should build first ,transfer tech and be paid via users in other nations.