Got flood meh? It's 'water ponding' lah: PUB

The management of Liat Towers and national water agency PUB do not see eye to eye on how last Friday's heavy rain turned the building's basement into a pond.



Following a meeting with PUB, a spokesman for the management of the shopping and office block, pinned the blame on an over-full Stamford Canal.

PUB, on the other hand, is adamant that the build-up of water came from the heavy rain and the building not pumping out the water fast enough.

'The pumps were working at full blast but were not able to drain the water out into the canal because the canal was full. PUB has got to take care of the canal. If the canal causes backflow and flooding, no matter how many pumps you put in, there will still be a problem. The long-term solution is that the Government has to do something to the canal,' added the Liat Towers spokesman.

That afternoon, 152.8mm of rain came down on Orchard Road in three hours. Flash floods were reported in Little India, Bukit Timah and Thomson.



"The situation at Liat Towers was caused largely by the prolonged heavy rain which fell directly into the building's open basement area. The outdoor area of Liat Towers is designed as a sunken plaza. The primary means to drain water away from the sunken plaza is through pumping. The huge volume of rain water that fell continuously for three hours could have exceeded the building's pumping capacity," a PUB spokesman responded.

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