Friday, November 02, 2007

We Have Lift Off!

You won't see this in the papers so I'm doing my own "report". Everyone can see a 60-storey building, but one can build a sewer system for 4 years and no-one knows what you've done. It's also a subject that most people aren't too interested in. They want to flush their loo and forget about it!

On Tuesday 30 November 2007, after 46 months of toiling, Shimizu-Road Builder-Hitachi Plant JV began diverting a significant amount of KL's sewage into new pipelines that carry it to a new Treatment Plant in Pantai Dalam.

The main benefit of the diversion is that the pollution of the Klang River, from sewage flowing out of existing sewer pipes and manholes, will be greatly reduced. Also, newly-laid trunk sewers along the Federal Highway, Jalan Klang Lama and Jalan Puchong will provide a modern, durable system of sewer pipes to cater for expected future development.

Yes indeed folks, we've commissioned 2 out of 3 major connections this week. One more to go next week, then some reinstatement and bits n pieces that'll likely drag on until January '08, then I'll be on my knees begging the Project Director to get me off this God-forsaken project and onto something new (but preferably in KL!).

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