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Beaufort Flood Relief Efforts by
Kimis Development Sdn Bhd
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looding haunts Beaufort
averagely 3 to 4 times
annually. But on the 14th
of February, Beaufort district
suffered from what is said to
be the worst flood in Beaufort
history. The district braced
the worst as the water level
at Sungai Padas breached the
danger level of 8.70 metres,
reaching over the 10-metre
mark and is expected to
rise further. The water level
increased further in the
evening due to high tide.
Relief centre was established
by the Beaufort residents,
holding more than 800 people
affected from 64 villages. Some
18 road links have been cut off
due to flooding and 18 schools
shut down. At the height of the
flood, almost 3,000 villagers
were evacuated. There were
also two deaths reported,
an eight year old boy who
drowned in the flood waters in
Kampung Lubak and a two year
old girl drowned in Kampung
Mempikit in Keningau.
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Help poured in from various
sources including Kimis
Development and the
members of SHAREDA Youth
also did their part in helping
out the victims of the flood.
Efforts lead by Roy Chiew of
Kimis Development Sdn Bhd
the developer of Beaufort
Square and SHAREDA
members, organized an
emergency relief effort which
provided essential food and
water supplies such as bags of
rice, cartons of mineral water,
and other food were bought
and delivered to over 250
families in five villages.
In the meantime, the Sabah
government was also urged
to set up a Cabinet Flood
Mitigation committee to
consider and come up with
flood mitigation programs to
solve the overflowing of the
Pagalan and Padas Rivers. An
immediate step could be to
deepen the rivers and to build
a diversion channel to divert
excessive water to reduce the
water levels and flooding.
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