2010/01/07
By Adie Suri Zulkefli, NST
GEORGE TOWN: Some 50 families of Taman Ketitir, Bukit Jambul here are appealing to the authorities to resolve the sewage problem which has been plaguing the area lately.
Resident Khaw Kok Ghee, 38, said the clogged sewage system had forced them to put up with a foul stench emitted by faeces overflowing into drains during heavy rain.
Khaw said the residents had submitted a complaint to Indah Water Konsortium (IWK).
"But we were told that they could not carry out maintenance works as the developer had yet to hand over the site to the company."
Taman Ketitir residents were relocated to the present site after Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) took over their land in 2004.
Each family was given a plot of land where they had built their houses.
They are appealing to USM to expedite the handing over of the sewage site to IWK so that the problem could be addressed.
The residents also claimed that only one of four fire hydrants in the area was functioning.
Former Batu Uban assemblyman Goh Kheng Sneah, who attended to the residents' complaint yesterday, urged the authorities to act swiftly to resolve the issue.
He said apart from the stench, the sewage site had also been turned into a mosquito breeding ground. Goh also urged both USM and IWK to look into the problem and find a solution.
A spokesman for the university, however, said USM had nothing to do with the area any more as the residents had obtained the certificate of fitness for their homes in July 2007.
He urged the residents to contact the local authorities to resolve the problem.
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