Sandakan Municipal Council discovers more problems
Published on: Wednesday, November 13, 2019
SANDAKAN: A follow-up visit by Sandakan Municipal Council’s Highway and Public Utilities Committee (HPUC) has exposed more problems that needed attention at the Sedco Industrial Estate area at Mile 3 here.
“After our last visit, the place was given a good cleaning and clearing of trash. However, during our latest visit, it has exposed more issues with sloppy garbage disposal and clogged drains,” said Taren Sunil, Head of HPUC.
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Pointing to drains full of plastic bottles and other rubbish, he and fellow HPUC members expressed disappointment that all the advice and persuasion asking the public to help keep Sandakan clean seemed to have fallen on deaf ears.
“As we have mentioned countless times, there is no way that council workers can cope with the cleanup job when there are people who just treat public places as an open dustbin. SMC has limited manpower and the workers have so many other things to do,” he said.
During the second visit, HPUC members took note of a vandalised fire hydrant with a metal cover missing.
Someone had also dug some sort of an open trench which now has a lot of rubbish thrown into it. The water has become stagnant.
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Apparently the culvert is also blocked.
There was an immediate cleanup job at the area where dustbins were located as well as its surroundings.
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