PUAS to manage apartment's reservoir

The Star 24/06/2003

THE developer of Cemara Apartments in Taman Pinggiran Putra, Serdang, has been requested to hand over the reservoir and pump house at the six-month-old buildings to Perbadanan Urus Air Selangor Bhd (PUAS) by mid-July, following complaints of low water pressure and poor water quality.

“This means that the developer, Bulletin Engineering Sdn Bhd, has to make sure that these two facilities are complete and fault-free within three weeks,” said Serdang MP Datuk Yap Pian Hon at a dialogue held at the apartments attended by the residents as well as representatives from the developer, PUAS Petaling and Sri Serdang police station on Friday.

PUAS also took a sample of water supplied to the apartments to check if it was contaminated.

The developer, represented by project manager C.T. Lim, had agreed to meet the residents every Saturday to hear out their problems and take steps to rectify them, which included garbage collection, security and defects in basic amenities.

To control the increasing rate of petty thefts reported at the shophouses next to the apartments, Yap requested for a meeting between residents and police officers from the PJ Selatan and Sri Serdang police stations early next month.

“The situation is very serious. There were 37 cases reported last year and already 27 cases had happened between January and April this year,” he said.

Yap also said other housing estates in the Air Hitam Forest Reserve were experiencing low water pressure as well.

“The population of this area is expected to expand to between 80,000 and 100,000 by 2008 as 15 developers have projects here.

“The Semenyih Water Treat-ment Plant is incapable of providing sufficient supply to all these areas,” he added, and appealed to PUAS to channel water from Sungai Selangor Phase Three to these areas.