No Water in KK on 15th Jan!!

Hear ye!! Hear ye!! The Moyog water treatment plant will be shut down from Jan 15 for 32 hours to facilitate the cleaning of the raw water pipeline. So please stock up you water!!

Read the important news below:

Thousands face water cut
By Julia Chan

11 January, 2008

KOTA KINABALU: A two-day shutdown at a water treatment plant here is expected to affect thousands of households next week. The shutdown of the Moyog water treatment plant from Jan 15 is to facilitate the cleaning of the raw water pipeline.

The pipeline, which is connected to the Babagon dam, will take up to 32 hours to clean, starting at 2pm on Jan 15 till 10pm the following day.

Water supply will return to normal by midnight on Jan 16.

Affected areas include the city centre, Luyang, Likas, Karamunsing, Sembulan, Tanjung Aru, Kingfisher Park, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Inanam, Kolombong, Kepayan, Penampang, Kinarut, Petagas and Putatan.

State Water Department director Awang Mohd Tahir Mohd Talib said the gradual deposit of bio film in the raw water pipeline had affected the flow of water to the treatment plant. "The volume had been reduced by more than 20 per cent from 220 million litres per day in the beginning to the present 180 million litres per day," he said.

"The reduction in the flow of water from the Babagon dam affected the volume of treated water produced to 165 million litres a day.

"The flow of water has dropped to a critical level and in order to overcome the problem, we are forced to shut down the treatment plant to enable us to clean up the pipeline," he said.

Consumers in the affected areas are advised to stock up on water.

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