Smart Tunnel Flood

By Coa_108Jaxon 26 Aug, 2022 Post a Comment

Since it was opened to traffic in May 2007 the SMART tunnel has diverted floodwaters on 40 occasions and averted an estimated RM14bil in public. Other smart tunnels in the world.

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Earlier The Vibes reported that the SMART Tunnel was closed at 1228pm to users as part of its flood mitigation plan since it has been raining in the Klang Valley since the wee hours of this morning.

. SMART is the longest tunnel in the country and works on a four-mode system. Previously the DID received proposals from private companies to build another SMART Tunnel in the Klang Valley to alleviate floods. THE Stormwater Management and Road Tunnel SMART tunnel diverted five million cubic metres of water despite three million cubic metres being its maximum capacity.

The whole project provides storage for 3 million cubic meters 7925m gallons of water sufficient to prevent most flooding in the city centre. He said that the SMART tunnel alone could address 45 of Klang Valleys major floods and without it the floods in the Klang Valley could have been a lot worse and the city centre would have. In Mode 4 the road tunnel is completely flooded during heavy storms.

However during a prolonged major storm and after 1-2 hours of Mode 3 being activated the road tunnel will be closed and it can be fully utilised for flood water diversion after. The Stormwater Management and Road Tunnel SMART is the longest tunnel in Malaysia and the second longest stormwater tunnel in Asia. Several locations in the capital saw rising waters with netizens taking to social media to share videos and images of their areas.

DID flood management division director Rozman Mohamad had said he was open to the plan as existing flood mitigation systems and reservoir ponds had failed to prevent floods. During this mode the SMART Tunnel only functions as an ordinary motorway tunnel for vehicles. The main purpose of SMART is to solve the problem of flash flooding in Kuala.

The SMART tunnel in Kuala Lumpur goes into Mode 4 with the traffic deck closed to traffic. The Smart tunnel is capable of storing three million cubic metres of floodwater at any time and diverted a total of five million cubic metres of floodwater in the December 2021 floods by extending. Some of the most interesting designs together with the.

We dont close the tunnel to vehicles that early into flood diversion operations especially when they are in mode. The tunnel is part of a larger flood mitigation system the Kuala Lumpur Flood Mitigation System. Twitter pic KUALA LUMPUR.

The SMART tunnel management has just announced through its Twitter account that has completely closed to traffic in preparation to channel floodwater. When there is a slight flood the SMART system activates and the flood water is diverted into the stormwater tunnel. The Smart Tunnel has been reopened to traffic after cleaning works were completed.

SMART is a 97km-stormwater bypass tunnel starting from the Klang River at the north to the Kerayong River at the south. The 132m diameter tunnel consists of a 97km stormwater bypass tunnel with a 4km dual-deck motorway within the stormwater tunnel. SMART tunnel has a total of 4 modes of operations.

The motorway tunnel will still be opened to traffic usage. Mode 3 consists of a warning that the tunnel will be flooded. The Stormwater Management And Road Tunnel.

The dual use system is not the only way to create a smart tunnel although it is one of the most useful and resilient. Apart from the SMART Tunnel DID assets around Kuala Lumpur such as pump houses have also been operating at maximum capacity since yesterday so despite heavy rain and the water release by Batu Dam Kuala Lumpur only experienced minor flooding he added. March 7 2022 909 PM.

During normal moderate or major storms the tunnel can be used to carry traffic on a double-decker layout. The badly hit areas in Kuala Lumpur on March 7 suffered from these two contributing factors insufficient carrying capacity at rivers particularly Sungai Kerayong Sungai Bunus and Sungai Kuyoh which are outside of the SMART Tunnel flood alleviation zone and intense rain overwhelming the local drainage networks in these areas. Construction of the tunnel which cost RM1887bn US5146m started in November 2003 and the.

Syarikat Mengurus Air Banjir dan Terowong Sdn Bhd SMART announced in a Facebook post that the tunnel would be closed from 444pm adding that the tunnel is only closed to traffic in mode 4 of its flood diversion operations. Smart Tunnel Smarttunnel May 25 2022. The dual-function tunnel was fully closed to traffic on Saturday to fulfil its flood duties and welcomed back.

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