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20120101 Fundamental Resolutions to Singapore Floods

http://bettersingapore.blogspot.com/2011/12/20120101-fundamental-resolutions-to.html Referring to so frequently repeating flood 20111223 Orchard Road Flood Again - Media Report & PUB Findings http://bettersingapore.blogspot.com/2011/12/20111223-orchard-road-flood-again-media.html Singapore frequent floods can be fundamentally resolved. Our flood is due to downstreams ponding, not due to 1. Immense water cathment upstreams, like Kuala Lumpur (Conventive Effect from Immense cathment Upstreams) , better 2. No intensification by Orograhpic effect in Thailand (Orographic effect from immense cloud up North blocked by Northern mountains tapering off Mount Everest) PUB using the right word, "Ponding." Ponding means water stayed stagnated as a pond, not flowing. Therefore the solution is quite clearly implied, we must make the water flow, we must therefore break this stagnation. There are two level of "Ponding" Micro-scopic - Choked filter, drains. When there a...

20111223 Orchard Road Flood Again - Media Report & PUB Findings

PUB releases latest findings on Orchard flash floods http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20111230-319062.html AsiaOne Friday, Dec 30, 2011 Findings from investigations of Orchard flash floods show that water could not flow out into Stamford Canal as it was full, said national water agency PUB in a statement today. Rainwater that drained off from the roof and the back area of Liat Towers overflowed into the basement area from an internal drain as water could not flow out into the canal when it was full. These were among the findings by PUB with regard to flash floods in the Orchard area on Dec 23, resulting in ankle-deep water in the basement shops of Liat Towers and Lucky Plaza. RELATED STORIES Countermeasures fail to stop flooding at Liat Towers Flash floods hit Liat Towers and other parts of Orchard Road PUB said that the pumping system at Liat Towers was able to pump out the water from the open basement area when the canal is not full. When the c...

20111203 Structure, Design and Managment Caution: MRT

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From: Sweekeng Sent: Saturday, 3 December 2011 7:39 PM To:   Lim Bok Niam;  Chew Hock Yong; 'Tuck Yew LUI Cc:   PM, M MOF, M MHG, M MEWR Subject: 20111203 Structure, Design and Managment Caustion: MRT Dear Minister Dear Hock Yong, Bok Ngam I cc PM, two DPM (Finance and Home Affair Ministers) engineering, money and rescue effort must be in placed . I cc Vivian for good effort, seemingly there is no flood reported despite intense rain in recent one week as alerted twenty one days before this bout of days long rains. (it is best time to work with weather department and LTA, Traffic Police, Transport operators to see where we did right, where are next likely improvement, bottleneck) I am most ready to assist, do not invest in another team of same domain world experts who are yet to master how to accelerate river flow on a small island. Let this be an opportunities we learn and progress together, let Singapore be an ever learning, progressing nation. Structure ....