Thursday 30 July 2015

MBPJ Drainage Department Overview


Briefing by Ir Roslan, 29th July 2015


  • 15 staff in this department, 11 effective staff. 
  • 800 aduan a year
  • 2300km of drains in MBPJ
  • Average complaint: 3m broken drain
  • 2400m of drains to repair a year
  • Staff will investigate aduan and report back within 48 hours. Is really a drain complain?
  • Options to repair, if repairing
    • To do this year, or to do next year. If do this year, most likely will apply Marris.
    • Inden (<RM20k), sebutharga (<200k), tender (>200k)
    • Have to do drawing, measurement, finally BQ. (refer picture for more details)
    • Council's budget for repair is RM 1.1mil a year. So, most of the cases have to apply for Marris funds. 
    • Marris funds takes about 4 months to get, sometimes even longer. 
    • the will compile aduan until RM19k, then only appoint the contractor (220m of V12) if using MBPJ money
    • Marris - will compile (approx 2500m) and wait to submit only when state invites them to apply. a year can only apply 2 or 3 when state invites. 3 to 4 months to approve once send to state.
    • Internal inden takes 2-3 months to approve (1 month if based on ISO) - refer picture for more details)  
  • Often times, tender board chooses lousy contractor
  • Inproper drain covers built by residents call the drain wall to break faster than normal
  • RM14mil for development project - mostly to upgrade to deal with floods
  • no staff to do walking survey
  • now 110 ongoing projects, 37 big, 73 inden

Wednesday 29 July 2015

MBPJ Landscape Overview

Scope of work of MBPJ Landscape Department


  1. Cleaning and Maintaining Public Parks
  2. Maintaining all public trees