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Reposting PSA
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09-01-2018, 06:12 AM | #12 |
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I stay upper paya lebar area. Yesterday i collected enough rain water to change for three fish tanks. I drove to ubi to buy lunch and it took me 3x longer than normal. Reason is just one car breakdown on a road, the road will jam badly. And two roads become jammed because of that.
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09-01-2018, 02:50 PM | #13 |
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09-01-2018, 03:26 PM | #14 |
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Like that you not Kampung lah
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09-01-2018, 05:08 PM | #15 |
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Heavy rain has just started again......
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10-01-2018, 05:50 PM | #16 |
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17-01-2018, 06:58 PM | #17 |
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Obstructed ditch near worksite intensified flash floods at Tampines Avenue 12
 By Monica Kotwani 17 Jan 2018 02:47PM  SINGAPORE: Floods at Tampines Avenue 12 last week were aggravated by runoff from a construction site after a ditch near the worksite was blocked by a temporary access road, national water agency PUB said at a media briefing on Wednesday (Jan 17). t stormwater runoff from a construction site and a field next to the flooded area would typically flow into an "earth drain", then discharge directly into Sungei Tampines. However, PUB's investigations revealed that the contractors of the construction site built a temporary access road across the ditch, obstructing its flow completely. The runoff flowed into the roadside drain on Tampines Avenue 12, which was already overwhelmed by the heavy rainfall on Jan 8. PUB said the flash floods in the area subsided in 25 minutes.  The agency said it will work with the developer, understood to be the Housing and Development Board (HDB) to improve drainage at the access road, and a permanent drainage system will be built "in tandem" with the upcoming development project, PUB added. PUB INVESTIGATING WHETHER ACTION SHOULD BE TAKEN AGAINST CONTRACTOR PUB said the contractor, Huationg Contractor, should not have built the access road without first informing the agency, saying they "changed the entire landscape". "It was the access road which ended up obstructing the flow, that was the key issue," the spokesperson said. It is conducting a detailed investigation as to whether the contractor submitted plans to authorities and if so, who they submitted them to. Any works that might impact the drainage system need to be run by PUB.  The obstruction of an earth drain by a construction access road led to the flash flood at Tampines Avenue 12 on Jan 8. (Photo: PUB) "We have not received any plans, so we need to know: Did they notify anyone else? We need to find out before we go into prosecution actions," the spokesperson said. "Those are serious actions so we must make sure we take all the necessary measures to see if things were done properly. Our focus now is to try and improve the temporary drainage in the area." ---------- different color different treatment |
18-01-2018, 10:55 AM | #18 |
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finding people to blame..
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18-01-2018, 01:12 PM | #19 |
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It appears quite common for the responsible authority to deny anything is wrong with the design or system first. Then later after they check again, they will come up with a reason for the initial failure. So first say nothing is wrong, then later tell you why it went wrong.
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18-01-2018, 01:28 PM | #20 |
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