JOHOR BARU: Water woes in parts of Kota Tinggi and Johor Baru are far from over as the state water concessionaire has made it known that the scheduled water exercise will continue until next month.
SAJ Holdings Sdn Bhd (SAJ) corporate communications head Jamaluddin Jamil said the water company was forced to take such steps especially due to the worsening state at the Sungai Lebam dam, which recorded a water level of only 8.19m.
Rainfall in the past few days failed to push up the water levels at the two dams, forcing the extension in the scheduled water exercise, he said in a statement on Monday.
Jamaluddin said the announcement came after SAJ obtained the National Water Services Commission’s approval to extend the exercise from Nov 16 until Dec 15.
“The other affected dam is in Sungai Layang which supplies water to 580,000 consumers in Pasir Gudang and Masai, mostly industrial users, and several parts of Johor Baru. The Sungai Lebam dam in Kota Tinggi channels water to about 66,496 users in Mukim Tanjung Surat, Mukim Pantai Timur, Mukim Pengerang and parts of Kota Tinggi,” he said.
He added that they had taken steps to increase the water levels at the two dams such as cloud-seeding and transferring raw water from Sungai Papan to the Sungai Lebam dam as well as from Sungai Tiram to the Sungai Layang dam.
For details, call 1 800 88 7474 (SAJ Info Centre), SMS to 019-772 7474 or email customer.care@saj.com.my.
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