Funding needed to build retaining wall

KUANTAN: The Kuantan Municipal Council (MPK) will have to look for alternative sources of funding to build more retaining walls along Sungai Galing.

Councillor Andy Chiew said he had been informed by the state Irrigation and Drainage Department (JPS) that it did not have the allocation to build additional walls to stop erosion by the river bank.

We have received numerous complaints from the public who are quite upset with the state of the river bank. Unfortunately, the department is short of funds to continue building morewalls. Therefore, we will try to come up with the allocation through otherchannels, he said after inspecting a completed retention wall near Jalan Selamat here recently.

Chiew added that the problem would hopefully be settled by this year.

Also present were his fellow councillors Ngoh Tian Meng, Choo Kay Boon, Tan Kee Sung and Pang Ching Chay.

The MPK officials later inspected the overgrown under brush in the drains at Lorong Tok Sira 70 and Lorong Air Putih 115.

Ngoh said JPS had been given a month to clear up the undergrowth in both areas.

Trimming the bushes will be a temporary measure while we work out a budget to put in U-drains, he said.

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Funding needed to build retaining wall