KOTA KINABALU FOUL SEWERAGE OVERFLOW

THE FOUL raw sewerage from the main sewerage system of the whole KK City is overflowing seriously in the Kingfisher Park oxidation ponds.

This area is the main foul sewerage treatment area, and the overflowing foul water is causing massive pollution problems to the nearby Kingfisher Park and some other housing area here. The worst part is that the foul sewerage water is flowing into the nearby swamp.

The KK MP Hiew King Cheu was alerted by the people about this, and he was brought there to see the awful condition of the foul sewerage water flowing into the open field instead of flowing into the oxidation ponds as it should be.

The people who live around here weren’t happy at all when they saw the foul water is every way and emitting unbearable foul smell which travels across many kilometers. They said the whole area is covered with foul sewerage now and it is affecting their health. They couldn’t live here any longer and some people had already sold their houses.

From the inspection carried out, it is confirmed that there is a huge quantity of foul sewerage water overflowing into the open field, and created another big pond of foul water outside. The foul water is being pumped into the ponds from the whole KK City, and it is noticed that the oxidation ponds are under capacity now, and these ponds are full and cannot treat or contain any more additional foul water.

The situation happened quite some years ago, and there has been not much work done to put right the situation. JKR and DBKK have been talking about big plans and projects to rectify the foul sewerage problems, but today we saw the problems got worst.

MP Hiew said when he referred back to the records and promises made by the government to rectify the problems in these oxidation ponds here many years back, he found that nothing has been done and no work has been carried out. Hiew said, now the whole KK City will have its foul sewerage water connected up to these ponds for treatment, will these pond be able to cope up with the additional quantity of almost five times in volume?

The sewerage water that is being pumped here through a small diameter pipe is actually 30% of the total volume (from reliable source), and there is already serious overflowing now.

What happen when 100% is being pumped here when the KK City sewerage master plan pipelines are all connected up to here? Will all the foul water flood the whole Kingfisher Park and Likas too in the future? The question is where is this 70% of the foul sewerage had gone to now?

The only logical and possible answer is that the 70% of the foul water has gone into the open drains and got into the sea directly in KK. The main storm drains water in KK is blackish and smelled like foul sewerage water, and in fact this is real sewerage water that is leaking out from our sewerage system.

There are many leaking sewerage pipes in the KK City area, and many people had made their reports to the KK MP office.

We need some quick action from the government, and we don’t want our city to become a city sinking in foul sewerage. We don’t want our sea and land being polluted heavily daily.

- Sabahkini