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There is no flooding in SG, only ponding and draining
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Flooding at Tanah Merah MRT station entrance during heavy rain on Saturday
Zhaki Abdullah
Nov 12, 2022
SINGAPORE - Water from a nearby construction site caused flooding at the entrance of Tanah Merah MRT station during the downpour on Saturday afternoon, rail operator SMRT said.
Videos circulating on social media showed commuters wading through ankle-high water at the entrance of the station in New Upper Changi Road.
“On Nov 12 at around 3pm, water from a construction site next to Tanah Merah MRT station caused flooding at the entrance of the station,” said SMRT Trains president Lam Sheau Kai.
“Our staff worked with cleaners and the construction site workers to clear the water immediately,” Mr Lam said in an e-mail to The Straits Times.
“For the safety of commuters, our staff were also mobilised to guide them away from the affected area,” he said, noting the water was cleared by around 5pm.
SMRT is working with the construction site supervisors to prevent the situation from recurring, he added.
Train service was not affected.
In a Facebook post, national water agency PUB warned that there was a risk of flash floods in several parts of the island on Saturday afternoon, with water levels in drains reaching 90 per cent in areas such as Jalan Boon Lay, Lorong Gambir and Bedok Canal near Upper Changi Road.
The weatherman said on Nov 1 that Singapore had the wettest October in 40 years, and the rainy spell was set to continue into the first two weeks of November, with thundery showers expected on most days.
Sinkapor is so tiny thus so much easy to manage n control..
That was a 40 year ago reasoning. No longer applicable now. Mudlanders politicians r corrupt
No longer true since many open fields and forests are replaced by concrete jungles. Concrete doesn't absorb water, imagine my shock.
Outer boundary wall of late billionaire Ng Teng Fong’s mansion collapses, causing congestion on Dunearn Rd
A section of the boundary wall of the former residence of late tycoon Ng Teng Fong collapsed on Sunday. PHOTO: LIANHE ZAOBAO
The debris from the wall collapse caused Dunearn Road to be temporarily closed. PHOTO: LIANHE ZAOBAO
A section of the boundary wall of the former residence of late tycoon Ng Teng Fong collapsed on Sunday. PHOTO: LIANHE ZAOBAO
Shabana Begum
NOV 13, 2022
SINGAPORE – Part of the boundary wall of the former residence of late billionaire Ng Teng Fong collapsed on Sunday afternoon, pouring debris over all three lanes of Dunearn Road.
The concrete debris caused Dunearn Road to be temporarily closed.
Ms Ng Siok Giok, the daughter of Mr Ng, said she was alerted to the collapse of the wall around 4pm and “immediately mobilised a professional structural engineer”.
“We are working closely with the authorities – the affected area is cordoned off and we are working to stabilise the surroundings.
“The engineer is also investigating the cause of the wall collapse. We are thankful that there are no injuries and we will engage our engineer to conduct additional inspections on the other boundary wall to ensure safety,” she added.
Engineers from the Building and Construction Authority were also on the scene to assess the damage.
Various parts of Singapore saw heavy downpours on Sunday afternoon and evening, with the drainage levels in Dunearn Road and Hillcrest Road reaching 100 per cent around 3.20pm.
National water agency PUB warned on Sunday that the area had a high flood risk.
Mr Ng Teng Fong was a prominent real estate tycoon who founded Far East Organization in the 1960s. He died in 2010 after suffering a brain haemorrhage.
PUB issues flash flood warnings for 23 areas
Heavy rain was expected in the northern, central and eastern parts of Singapore until 4.30pm. ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG
Aqil Hamzah
NOV 16, 2022
SINGAPORE - Drains in 23 areas across the island reached 90 per cent capacity due to heavy rain on Wednesday afternoon, according to flash flood alerts by national water agency PUB.
Between 3.30pm and 4.25pm, the drains in several locations, including Upper Paya Lebar Road, Lorong Gambir and Wan Tho Avenue in Upper Serangoon and Jalan Seaview, were near full capacity.
In its updates on messaging app Telegram, PUB advised members of the public to avoid these areas for an hour due to the risk of flash flooding.
It said that heavy rain was expected in the northern, central and eastern parts of Singapore until 4.30pm.
In a subsequent update, PUB said heavy rain was expected in many areas of Singapore until 5.15pm.
The weatherman said on Nov 1 that Singapore experienced the wettest October in 40 years, and the rainy spell is set to continue into the first two weeks of November, with thundery showers expected on most days.
Some 412mm of rain was recorded last month, exceeding the previous October record of 389.3mm in 2011, according to the Meteorological Service Singapore’s bimonthly report.
The Changi climate station recorded 27 rainy days in October surpassing the previous record of 21 days observed in 1985 and 2003.
Slip road to Farrer Road closed for repair of cave-in, PUB hopes to reopen it ‘in the next few days’
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Heavy traffic along Holland Road at the junction of Farrer Road on Nov 16, 2022. ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
Christopher Tan
Senior Transport Correspondent
PUBLISHED
NOV 16, 2022
SINGAPORE - A slip road leading from Holland Road and Commonwealth Road into Farrer Road as well as an adjoining road have been closed to traffic since Tuesday as workers repair a cave-in caused by tunnelling works.
National water agency PUB said late on Wednesday night that “a sinkhole and some cracks were observed on the slip road”, where tunnelling work for a section of the Deep Tunnel Sewerage System (DTSS) Phase 2 is ongoing.
The agency said the damage was detected on Tuesday. It has stopped tunnelling work as a precaution while investigations are ongoing, and closed the slip road into Farrer Road as well as two lanes along a section of the Farrer Underpass for safety.
One lane along the underpass was reopened on Wednesday evening, and PUB said it hopes to reopen the slip road “in the next few days”.
“We apologise for the inconveniences caused,” said PUB, without elaborating on how exactly the tunnelling works caused the cave-in.
When The Straits Times went on-site on Wednesday afternoon, an entire stretch outside the Leedon Green condominium project was cordoned off with a canvas screen, and workers from Japanese construction giant Nishimatsu – a PUB contractor for the DTSS Phase 2 project – were present. ST has contacted the company for comments.
This is not the first time tunnelling works had caused such an incident in the area. In 2008, tunnelling for the MRT Circle Line caused a cave-in in the same vicinity. An 8m by 7m stretch of Cornwall Gardens in Holland Village – barely 200m from the damaged Farrer Road – had sunk into a 3m-deep crater.
In 2004, a section of Nicoll Highway collapsed because of a Circle Line tunnelling accident in which Nishimatsu was implicated.
The Farrer Road closure caused long tailbacks during the evening traffic peak on Tuesday, and again on Wednesday evening. In fact, all roads in the surrounding area – going as far off as Commonwealth – were congested with vehicles crawling along at 7pm.
Public bus services are also affected by the closure. Operator Tower Transit said its service 855 will be skipping bus stops at Viz Holland and Leedon Green. Pedestrian traffic is also affected, with signs at the junction showing alternative walking paths in the area.
The section of road leads to Lornie Highway, a major link in Singapore’s ring road network. It is usually heavily used during the morning and evening traffic peaks.
Motorists heading from Holland and Commonwealth can avoid the stretch by using Napier Road towards Cluny Road to bypass the blockade and get back onto Lornie Highway.
Alternatively, they can head towards Orchard Road and use Stevens Road or Newton Road to avoid Lornie Highway altogether.
Either way, they should avoid the surface roads leading to Farrer Road. Instead, they should stay on the right and take the viaduct to bypass the Farrer-Holland-Queensway junction.
Those heading from Orchard towards Farrer should turn off at Cluny or earlier.
Motorist Amrit Changaroth was one of many affected by the rare road closure. The 31-year-old mechanical engineer was heading from Holland Village to Sin Ming estate when he noticed an “unusually long line” leading towards Farrer Road at around 5.15pm on Tuesday.
After moving at a crawl for several minutes, he decided to take the viaduct towards Dempsey, to make a U-turn and head back towards the Farrer junction. But that route was also blocked. So he had no choice but to head back towards Holland Village, find a way onto the Ayer Rajah Expressway, and then use the Central Expressway to get to where he was going.
“At the time I was there, I could see seven or eight public buses lined up along the road. They were stuck,” Mr Changaroth said.
Burst of heavy rain leads to flash flood warnings in several parts of Singapore
Flooding along Cavenagh Road on March 30, 2023. PHOTO: MOHAMED SHARI
Chin Hui Shan
UPDATED
Mar 30, 2023
SINGAPORE – A heavy burst of rain in the late afternoon on Thursday resulted in a flash flood in the Orchard area.
In a Twitter post at 6.08pm, national water agency PUB issued a flood risk alert in Kramat Lane and Cavenagh Road near Orchard Plaza, with water levels rising above 90 per cent of the drain capacity.
In an update on messaging app Telegram at 6.20pm, PUB advised people to avoid Kramat Lane and added that PUB officers had been deployed to render assistance.
In a second update at about 6.30pm, PUB said the flood in Kramat Lane had subsided.
It said heavy rain was expected in the southern, western and central parts of Singapore from 5.45pm until 6.45pm.
Between 5.58pm and 6.08pm, PUB issued flash-flood warnings for many other parts of the island. These included Cambridge Road, Bukit Timah Canal near Keng Lee Road, Mackenzie Road, Balestier Road, Thomson Road, Puay Hee Avenue and Siak Kew Avenue in Upper Serangoon, as well as Stamford Canal near Lucky Plaza.
On March 16, the Meteorological Service Singapore said the country can expect short periods of moderate to heavy rain on most afternoons in the later part of the month. On some occasions, the showers could continue into the evening.
Prevailing north-east monsoon conditions were forecast to continue with low-level winds blowing from the north-west or north-east.
4 hours of rain in western S’pore on Thursday nearly equals July monthly average
A flash flood occurred along a 200m stretch on Dunearn Road near Sime Darby Centre at around 9.25am on Thursday. PHOTO: PUB/FACEBOOK
Ang Qing
July 20, 2023
SINGAPORE - The amount of rain dumped on western Singapore on Thursday nearly equalled the average rainfall recorded for July, after a heavy downpour that triggered flood risk warnings across the island.
National water agency PUB said on Thursday that 120.2mm of rainfall was logged from 7.40am to 11.30am, corresponding with more than 80 per cent of Singapore’s average monthly rainfall for July.
Flash flood warnings were issued in areas such as Stamford Canal near Lucky Plaza, Braddell MRT station and Sunset Drive.
Thursday’s downpour resulted in a flash flood along a 200m stretch of Dunearn Road near Sime Darby Centre at about 9.25am.
PUB’s Quick Response Team was activated and two traffic lanes were closed temporarily as a precautionary measure.
PUB said: “The road remained passable to traffic, and the flash flood subsided within 15 minutes.”
Floods have been a long-time problem for Bukit Timah residents.
In 2009, the Bukit Timah Canal burst its banks for the first time in years, throwing traffic into chaos and resulting in knee-deep floodwater.
Since 2021, PUB has buffered flood prevention efforts in Dunearn Road by raising a 450m section of the road and deepening Bukit Timah Canal.
The interim works were announced after flash floods occurred thrice there in 2021.
That year, more rain pelted western Singapore in three hours on Aug 24 than previous records for the month of August here. Rainfall on that day was the highest ever recorded in 2021.
PUB said it is also widening and deepening a 900m section of the canal from Rifle Range Road to Jalan Kampong Chantek as a long-term measure to enhance flood protection.
These works have begun and are expected to be completed by 2026, PUB added.
Flash floods in Jurong West amid heavy afternoon downpour
The water level at Boon Lay Avenue almost reached the height of the seats of the nearby bus stop, with vehicles travelling slowly along that road. PHOTOS: SCREENGRAB FROM FACEBOOK VIDEO
Sherlyn Sim
Nov 28, 2023
SINGAPORE – Several roads in the Jurong West area were flooded on Nov 28 afternoon, following heavy rainfall over western Singapore.
National water agency PUB said on Facebook the same evening a flash flood had occurred along Boon Lay Way at 3.42pm, which subsided within 20 minutes. In a separate alert on Telegram earlier in the afternoon, the agency said the flash flood affected two of the three lanes there.
PUB said on Facebook that its Quick Response Teams were on site to help the public during the flash flood. It added that it had issued flood risk alerts for six locations.
Also, in videos posted on Facebook, the water level at the nearby Boon Lay Avenue - in the vicinity of River Valley High School - had almost reached the height of the seats of the nearby bus stop, with vehicles travelling slowly along that road.
Another video showed vehicles passing through Tah Ching Road, with the road surface in front of Lakeside Towers covered by water.
Filipino domestic worker Josephine Sanico Mosquera, who filmed the Tah Ching Road video when visiting a friend, said that the flood started around 4pm and lasted an hour. She added that she did not see vehicles getting stuck in the water.
“This is the first time in my 12 years in Singapore that I saw the area got flooded like that. But I’m not shocked because the floods in the Philippines are more scary,” the 37-year-old said.
PUB said on Facebook that the heaviest rainfall of 104.1mm was recorded in western Singapore from 3.05pm to 4.20pm. This amount is about half of the country’s average monthly rainfall in November.
According to Meteorological Service Singapore website, about 30.5mm of rain fell in the Jurong West area from 3pm to 5pm.
PUB advised motorists and pedestrians to avoid travelling through flooded areas. Members of the public can receive flood alerts by subscribing to PUB’s Telegram Channel at https://t.me/pubfloodalerts or downloading the myENV app.
On Nov 16, the Meteorological Service Singapore said the country can expect short periods of thundery showers over parts of the island in the afternoon, extending into the evening on a few days. On those occasions, the thundery showers could be widespread and heavy, it added.
The total rainfall for the second half of November is forecast to be above average over most parts of the island.
Build so much concrete crap, no more soil to absorb rainwater... gee, I wonder what will happen? 
By the way, wasn't the Marina Barrage hyped up to help prevent or at least alleviate 'ponding' here? So that's all bullshit then. It's just a vanity project done because LKY wanted it.
By the way, wasn't the Marina Barrage hyped up to help prevent or at least alleviate 'ponding' here? So that's all bullshit then. It's just a vanity project done because LKY wanted it.
Heavy rain prompts flood warnings for many areas of Singapore
A heavy downpour on April 28, 2024. The Meteorological Service Singapore had warned that Singapore was set for a wet start to May. ST PHOTO: ARIFFIN JAMAR
Yong Li Xuan
MAY 04, 2024
SINGAPORE - Heavy rain prompted flood warnings across large parts of Singapore on the morning of May 4.
At 8.09am, PUB posted a flood alert on social media platform X that heavy rain was expected over “many areas of Singapore” from 8.05am to 9am.
Earlier, the agency also made two posts that heavy rain was expected from 6.45am to 7.45am and 7.45am to 8.30am.
Due to heavy rain, PUB told the public to avoid TPE (Punggol West Flyover), as well as Jalan Pokok Serunai.
PUB also warned the public about the risk of flash floods at Upper Paya Lebar Service Road (from Lim Teck Boo Road to Rochdale Road), Jalan Lokam near Upp Paya Lebar Rd, Thrift Dr near Jalan Usaha, Jalan Seaview, the junction of Mountbatten Road and Tanjong Katong Road South, as well as Craig Road from Duxton Road to Tanjong Pagar Road.
On May 2, the Meteorological Service Singapore had warned that Singapore was set for a wet start to May, with the MSS forecasting moderate to heavy thundery showers in the late morning and afternoon on most days for the first fortnight of the month.
The MSS added that there may be widespread thundery showers with gusty winds on a few mornings.
