Taman Melawati among 114 landslide hotspots in Ampang Jaya, says MB

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The location of the landslide at Jalan E6, Taman Melawati on Tuesday (Oct 15) is one of 114 areas identified in Ampang Jaya as red zones highly at risk of incidents.   Selangor Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari said approximately 400 other areas have been categorised as orange zones, which are at risk of landslides.  Read more at https://shorturl.at/GVpx8  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Yesterday, a representative of the community said that this is not the first incident, but the fifth in three years.

00:10Yes, this is indeed a hotspot area. We understand.

00:14If we look at the structure, the land is on top of a rock.

00:20If we look at the white rock, it is a limestone.

00:25And this is indeed in a series of long limestone.

00:29From here to Hulu Langat to Batu Cave.

00:33So, when there is a water movement for several months there,

00:40it means that flooding will happen easily.

00:43We have given information in the past, but we will not remove all the houses here.

00:48Only a few steps need to be taken, including the new disaster training.

00:53We are not just waiting for floods, we are also waiting for landslides.

01:00And I also want to take this opportunity to inform once again

01:05to the residents in the coastal areas of Negeri Selangor.

01:09Tomorrow until the 20th of this month is an important date to pay attention to

01:14because those dates are the dates of high tide

01:20that will occur in the Kelang area or the coastal areas of Negeri Selangor.

01:25We have made a few instructions so that the tires that are not ready

01:32and so on, they build temporary tires in the last two M-Test competitions.

01:36And this afternoon I will look at the availability and tomorrow and how the preparation is.

01:43And also, the important thing is that all parties have to prepare

01:46because on the 18th of this month,

01:51on the 18th and 19th of this month, the water is expected to be at the highest level, which is 5.8.

01:58So in the Kelang area, until the 6th of this month, there is a risk of flooding.

02:03But now the center is in the area, we have directed to open 24 hours.

02:07In the country it will also be open 24 hours starting tonight

02:10so that we can monitor the situation from time to time.

02:14Dr. Sri, has the authorities identified how many hotspots?

02:18For the entire Ampang, they have been there for a long time.

02:23How many areas are active?

02:25More than 400, but we have to take care of the risk of 140.

02:29What?

02:30The risk is 114.

02:32There are areas that are really at high risk.

02:34For example, the area that can be marked as yellow, orange and red is 114.

02:40But the entire area is over 600.

02:43And the risk is more than 400.

02:46But those that are really severe or really fragile and repeated,

02:51it happens in this area.

02:53So it's 114.

02:55So that's also...

02:56Under Ampang?

02:57Yes, that's just under Ampang Jaya.

02:59But in the past year, there have been certain accidents in Selayang

03:05and also not left in Petaling Jaya.

03:09It just happened last year in a place where there were other incidents.

03:14But Ampang, Bukit Antarabangsa and our area,

03:17it has indeed happened since the Highland Towers case

03:22and there have been several incidents.

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