The Rajang River water level reportedly has dropped after flooding began at the Bakun Dam. Already the express boat between Kapit and Belaga has been suspended.
Will Kapit now be cut off from vital river transport? What about the area’s future water and energy supply?
See Borneo Post report here.
What other environmental consequences does the Bakun Dam have in store?
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Sarawak deserves what Sarawak gets. (If) you vote for pirates, you expect to be robbed. So let the rot begin.
I am too far to see or feel anything.
Abang Adek,
I totally agree with you.
Voters must accept the responsibility and consequences of their choice of government.
I pity the fish and marine life though…
By the time the people of Sarawak come to their senses, the landscape of Sarawak would have altered beyond recognition and orang utan would have long gone, except in the zoos in semenajung and Singapore.
Not only it affect the water transport. The sudden change of ecosystem will cause majority of the fish to die. With lower water level during high tide sea water will go further into the river, all these sudden change will case a lot of fish to be extinct from Rajang River due to the inability to adapt to new environment. Stupid human being is causing another calamity to the wild life.
Hey, the Kapit voters deserve this gift of low water level – and soon to happen disruption of food supply owing to lack of river transport – from the BN. After all, they love the BN so much, they have been voting for their hopeless BN YB again and again. So, why are they complaining now? They deserve this. Padan muka. Satu lagi projek Barisan Nasional.
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wow, some serious messing with mother nature!nothing comes free Anil, something tells me Mother nature is going to exact a heavy price.
Satu lagi akibat projet kerajaan Barisan Nasional…
I see (possible) impending disaster, shortage of food and supplies which will never get reported on MSM. However, they will be out in the next few months on damage control over an event that they never report in the first place. This is typical one sided MSM journalism, no thanks to media control by the ruling regime.
Heh I wasn’t expecting this! As long as demand stays more or less constant and there’s no need to suddenly empty the dam, it’s to be expected that the downstream river could be maintained at its ‘average’ flow – it would have to be, or the dam would either be emptying or filling. That last bit is the killer: you can’t fill the dam unless you reduce the river’s flow to below-average. It should be a one-off operation, but one has to wonder what effort the dam’s owner went to to tell everyone by how much the river’s flow would… Read more »
http://www.scribd.com/doc/39566440/Seasonal-Sedimentation-Rajang
So about 3600m^3/s then, or about half that of the Danube. Completely blocking the Rajang discharge (dry river bed) then should mean the dam will take ten years to fill.
If you get any Bakun fluid engineers reading your articles, I’d be interested to know what the discharge profile over time from the dam is expected to be. From the sedimentation article it seems that ‘normal’ Rajang flow ranges from 1,000 to 6,000 m^3/s. The Wikipedia article says the spillway capacity is 15,000m^3/s – about 2.5x the high end of normal. The sedimentation article also estimates over 25,000m^3/s during monsoon periods. I imagine the dam will just fill up a tiny bit during monsoon periods. What I’m wondering though, is if the spillway has been designed for 2.5x the high… Read more »