SHAH ALAM: After years of delay, the Pahang-Selangor raw water transfer (PAMPS) is finally running.
At 10.16pm on Monday, for the first time ever, water started to be pumped from Sungai Semantan in Pahang into Sungai Langat through the outfall tunnel after the capacity of Sungai Langat dam went down to 44.24 per cent.
By 8.30am yesterday, a total of 300 million litres of water has been pumped into Sungai Langat.
Infrastructure and Public Utilities, Agriculture Modernisation and Agro-Based Industry Committee chairman Zaidy Abdul Talib said the raw water transfer was one of the mitigation efforts to reduce the release of water from the Sungai Langat Dam which is now at 45.07 per cent capacity.
"With the transfer, the release of water from the Langat Dam and the pumping from Semenyih Dam have been stopped.
"This is one of the ways to tackle water supply disruption due to the stoppage of the main water treatment plants (LPA) in Sungai Langat - Cheras LPA, Batu 11 and Bukit Tampoi during the dry season because of the reduced dilution rate and increasing ammonia parameter in the river," he said in a statement.
Last year, the Federal Government allocated RM5 million to build a 1.5km pipeline extension connecting the Pahang-Selangor Raw Water Transfer tunnel project in Langat, Selangor, to Sungai Langat, in preparation for El Nino.
This temporary mitigation plan was funded by the Federal Government to address the water shortage, and ease the burden of the people in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya until the Langat 2 water treatment plant was completed in 2019.
