PENANG Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon should be congratulated for telling the public the floods in inner George Town was caused partly by the fact that the six tidal gates at the S10 urban flood mitigation project in Macallum Street Ghaut were only opened at 9pm on Friday because of lack of co-ordination between the authorities, “Delay in opening tidal gates partly to blame” (Sunday Star, Oct 5).
That means they were only opened after more than 40 hours of heavy rain (given that heavy continuous rain had been falling since 2.30am on Thursday)!
