SHAH ALAM: KDEB Waste Management Sdn Bhd needs another week to complete cleaning-up following floods in Taman Sri Muda, Section 25, here with the progress at 35% now.

       Its managing director Ramli Mohd Tahir said that Taman Sri Muda was being focused in view of the area being the worst affected, besides having a high population density.

       "Taman Sri Muda is a large area with 9,071 houses and 179 factories and we estimate that each house requires one roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) bin to remove the post-flood garbage, so I hope the residents will be patient,” he told reporters at this housing area.

       Ramli said they started the cleaning-up work after the floodwaters subsided and the roads reopened which enabled the lorries to collect the garbage from Dec 25 until now, with about 5,000 tonnes of garbage removed from the flood-hit homes in Taman Sri Muda.

       He said over 400 workers toiled from early morning to midnight and the cleaning-up work also involved the use of 90 garbage lorries and a number of excavators to speed up the process.

       According to him, the other critical areas being focused by the company included Padang Jawa in Shah Alam, Taman Sri Nanding and Sungai Lui in Hulu Langat, Kampung Bukit Lanchong in Subang Jaya and Bukit Changgang in Kuala Langat.

       He said that over 22,000 tonnes of post-flood garbage had been collected so far throughout Selangor. - Bernama