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Folks in Tampin and Rembau face water cuts
10 September 2015
SEREMBAN: Residents in Tampin and Rembau districts will
likely have to endure water rationing as the level at the Gemencheh dam has
fallen to a very critical stage.
The level at the dam had continued to dip, and there was
only a month’s supply of raw water left, said Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamad
Hasan.
Due to the prolonged dry spell in the area, 15,000
households in the two districts had to face water cuts for four months earlier
this year when they received supply only on alternate days.
Then, the state government got contractors to lay pipes from
the Sawah Raja treatment plant in Rembau to supply 20.5 million litres of water
to the Bukit Tampin retention tank and then to the affected residents.
“The daily consumption in both the districts amounts to 29.6
million litres daily. We managed to get 20.5 million litres from the Sawah Raja
plant after the pipes were laid and another 2.3 million litres from the Sg
Jelai plant.
“Despite cutting down raw water taken from the Gemencheh dam
by more than half, we are again faced with the problem,” he said, adding that
the Gemencheh dam’s daily capacity was reduced to only nine million litres per
day.
At present, it only provides some 6.8 million litres of
water per day.
Mohamad said they would consider running the Sawah Raja
treatment plant to its maximum capacity to see if the shortfall could be
addressed.
“We will need to let the experts look at this as it is
already running at almost maximum capacity.”
“We don’t want to overwork the Sawah Raja plant because if
there are problems later, supply to Port Dickson will be affected.”
Mohamad said the state government had set aside RM35mil to
build a second treatment plant in Sawah Raja.
The plant will have a capacity to treat 55 million litres of
water a day, and once completed it will supply water to residents in Rembau.
The facility is expected to be ready only in three years’ time.
Mohamad said the state government would also lay pipes to
transfer raw water from Sg Jelai in Jempol to the Gemencheh dam.
“We will have four pumps installed which would be able to
transfer some 50 million litres of raw water to the dam,” he said, adding that
work should be completed by early next year.
He said demand for treated water in Tampin and Gemas was
also expected to rise in view of new residential and commercial areas and the
expansion of army camps there.
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