KOTA KINABALU: Public Works Department engineers are monitoring hillslope roads throughout the state after a massive 70m road collapse in Bukit Padang here.
Sabah PWD director John Anthony said surveillance teams were monitoring main roads across Sabah’s Crocker Range and also other hilly roads in view of the current rainy conditions.
“We will take immediate rectification work if we find the possibility of a landslip developing,” he said when contacted yesterday.
On the collapse of a section of Jalan Kolam Minitod on Thursday, Anthony said the immediate measures were to temporarily reinstate the road that connects Bukit Padang to Inanam and Penampang.
Damage control: Sabah Electricity Sdn Bhd workers inspecting an electricity cable at a road in Bukit Padang near Kota Kinabalu yesterday. About 70m of the road collapsed on Thursday, believed to be due to underground water movement following three days of heavy rains over Sabah. “It will take some time to fully repair the road,” he said.
First signs of the landslip appeared at about 7am on Thursday. Steps were immediately taken to regulate traffic flow on the road by setting up a single lane.
However, between 1pm and 3pm, two landslips occurred and the road began to collapse in what engineers believed could have been triggered by high ground water levels.
Anthony said their initial investigations showed that some slight earth settlement had occurred and had apparently dislodged the culverts for the hill water to flow.
Heavy rains and strong winds over the west coast of Sabah are expected to continue till Monday.
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