Repair work on the road damage at Jalan Klang-Banting near Johan Setia, caused by soil erosion and sedimentation, will take about a week to complete, said Prasarana chairman Datuk Seri Tajuddin Abdul Rahman.
He also said that the incident happened due to several factors, including frequent rain over the past two weeks and pressure from the LRT3 rail project construction.
“The soil sedimentation is quite serious and has also caused the underground water pipe to burst, affecting water supply to about 14,000 consumers in the area,” Tajuddin said yesterday, reported by Bernama.
The Prasarana chief said that the company, through LRT3 project contractor MRCB George Kent, will conduct a study on the soil in the area to ensure construction work in the area is safe. The Pasir Salak MP also apologised for the inconvenience caused, on behalf of Prasarana.
In a separate statement by Air Selangor, the company said that water pipe repair works will be completed at 6pm today, with full restoration of supply expected by 6am tomorrow morning.
The frequent and heavy rainfall is also causing havoc elsewhere. On Sunday, two sinkholes appeared close to each other in Taman U Thant, KL. The first of the two holes caused the walls of the nearby condo in the affluent neighbourhood to cave in. It is suspected that a broken pipe is the cause. Wretched weather of late, so drive safe, keep a good distance and always be alert of obstacles.
Looking to sell your car? Sell it with Carro.
1 week?! Japan earthquake sinkhole 3day only.
This repair work will be done by Prasarana not JKR, so they need more time to find the right vendors to effect the repair work.
And Japan have the same soil structure as Malaysia?
Stop barking, start thinking.
ure right, japan’s soil structure is even worse than ours.
Eh Latuk…itu jalan kasi repair ini hari, semalam sudah siap.
You cannot blame the rain. If the construction has caused this will be just the matter of time.
Cut corners during construction and blame the rain. Like Malaysian rainfall is some big mystery. After sinkhole occurs then only want to study the soil. Typical. Compensation to local government, water works department, affected residents and businesses mana?
They certainly didn’t build the road prior to this incident so I don’t know where you got the idea they had cut corners somewhere.
They are performing piling works for the LRT along this road – if you are actually an engineer then you would understand that a soil study and the effect construction is going to have on surrounding structures would have to be undertaken BEFORE this happens and demonstrate that efforts were undertaken to mitigate/prevent this. Not after. So a private company that didn’t build the road has a right to damage it and not pay compensation by suka suka constructing and not doing the needful?
If they damaged it, they have to repair/compensate the damages, and so far Prasarana isn’t shying away from that responsibility. Talking about the soil condition, obviously this construction have been ongoing for months to years, why did the road collapse now? Are you implying they didn’t do soil study just prior to rainy season? If they were haphazardly doing constructions without conducting soil study, it would have collapsed long time ago not now. Weather factors changes conditions even in Japan, landslides still occurs despite their high level of construction and engineering.
The road was fine there for decades, they started digging all around the area without proper soil study BEFORE construction no wonder sinkholes start to appear.
Soil integrity is fragile without proper support, if you start digging all around a piece of road, the weight of the cars passing on the road will fracture it eventually as there is not enough support from all around the sides.
You cannot defy gravity, a mound of soil with nothing to hold it in place will disperse and fall eventually.
The reason soil on hills and mountains hold up is due to trees and vegetation holding it firm. Chop of the trees, sure eventually got landslide.
They can’t predict everything, as nobody knows for certain how weather & environmental factors affects infra. If they hadn’t done a study on the soil prior to construction, from the start things would have gone wrong not until months or years later.