GRAHA STUFF

As quoted from the page of Straits Times, the national water agency PUB are investigating the cause of flooding, especially in regions most severely Orchard Road / Scotts Road intersection.

There, the water reaches a height of 30 centimeters, so that flooding in the basement parking lot of a shopping center and shops. This incident damaged goods in the shop and disrupt business.

Before this, the last major floods in the region occurred in 1984. However, investigations to find the cause of the flood can only be done when the water level in the canal water had receded completely. PUB according to the latest information on the latest situation on Wednesday afternoon.

PUB has also warned that the flood can still happen during hurricane season. PUB Singapore's population began to alert request. According to PUB, 100mm high rainfall occurred beginning at 9 am to 11 am in many areas in central Singapore, with the highest rainfall occurred at 9:30 am and 10:30 am.

"The rainfall was more than 60 percent of the average rainfall during June," PUB said in a statement. The average rainfall for the month of June is 162mm.

When the first rain fell at eight o'clock in the morning, PUB deployed their staff to be ready at specific points on flood-prone, including the Cuscaden Road, Wilby Road, Jalan Haji Alias, and Little India. As the rain intensified at about 9:15 AM, police requested standby traffic. (Np)