A Bare Gentle Directness Among Rhetorical Kinfolk

The result for one way distance then appeared with the suggested routes. For that, it stated that the shortest distance is 37.1 km via Lebuhraya Damansara Puchong (LDP). Back and forth, my travelling distance should totalling up to 74.2 km and with RM0.45 rate, I score a RM33.39 as for today's claim. Now, is that worth queries?

NORMAL OCCURRENCE

A) Soil that slip down from failed slope piled up on the solid ground and bury houses.

B) The Ground Water Table is evenly leveled by the flat nature of the lower ground.

C) The formation of the solid ground and the almost horizontal level of ground water are mostly made by the position of the substratum that shaping the contour.

D) The underground water flows down rapidly by the force of gravity to conjoin the stable ground water level.


BUKIT ANTARABANGSA DEC 6 LANDSLIDE

A) Faulty slope slip with the water movement down beneath the top soil. Houses lifted, moved away and dreadful damage of the top soil tore the buildings and may lift the lawn higher than the rooftop.

B) The soft ground enables the water to create porosity and thus pulling down the slope into, together with the downward ground water movement.

C) The substratum of the surface level is still sloping down and the whole flat land above is not properly located on flat bedding, thus exposing the whole area to massive earth movement.

D) The ground water flows down with the bedrock as the datum by the force of gravity to conjoin the stable ground water level which technically located somewhere lower.


THE REASON WHY..

The most probable reason is the process of development that create artificial waterways which has eliminate the natural stream of a virgin land. The natural stream, by it nature that made by the bedrocks, creates a water current beneath the surface of the original stream. When the soil get saturated, the gravity will caused the volume to release the energy that refrained to move all this while by the short of total faulty factor. This might caused by rain and also man made factor such as leaking pipe, drainage or sanitary system in a long term basis.

Landslides occurred not only on developed hill slopes. It also happens anywhere in hilly landscape covered by virgin forest due to the natural occurrence of extra torrential rain that pours and raising up the ground water exceeding the normal level. The gravity will force the water to move down and if the cohesive factor of the soil is low and the porosity is homogeny, nothing would stop the water to brought mass quantity of soil slipping down along with it downward movement.

Whenever earth slips onto one's property, the typical attitude always made development as the main point of the blame game. In fact, why should we put ourselves in risk if we actually know the probable consequence? There is nothing to do with the property owner. Nobody cares on the necessity of doing an extra study on geology whenever they want to purchase a house unless one's willing to be labeled as extra-paranoia. Most people swallow all the assurance shoved down their throat by the developers.

Lets read what I’ve wrote to Utusan Malaysia back on 12 June 2005, when a landslide affecting few residence of Taman Zooview :

" KEJADIAN tanah runtuh di Hulu Klang, Selangor dan jambatan runtuh di Papar, Sabah baru-baru ini membuktikan faktor ekonomi telah mendorong manusia untuk menafikan hukum alam. Ini tidak dapat tidak meletakkan dua kejadian ini adalah kesilapan manusia pada peringkat perancangan awal, bukannya kehendak alam semata-mata, yang berlaku atas sesuatu yang direncanakan.

Jika dilihat rekod kejadian tanah runtuh di Hulu Klang sejak tragedi Highlands Tower 12 tahun lalu, seharusnya pihak berwajib sedia maklum akan hakikat bahawa tanah di kawasan Hulu Klang adalah berlainan.

Hal ini disebabkan muka bumi kawasan tersebut berbukit-bukit dan mempunyai tanah yang longgar serta mudah menggelongsor akibat dipengaruhi graviti apabila berlaku aliran air bawah tanah luar biasa berikutan taburan hujan yang tinggi bagi sesuatu tempoh tertentu. Perkara ini turut diakui oleh pakar geologi.

Maka sepatutnya, kawasan seperti ini tidak perlu dibangunkan langsung atas sebab-sebab keselamatan dan secara tidak langsung, warisan hijau di kawasan tersebut terpelihara. Namun, kerana nilai hartanah yang cukup tinggi di kawasan tersebut, termasuk tarikan pemandangan kota yang turut menjadi faktor tambah nilai hartanah kawasan tersebut, ia dibangunkan.

Kesannya, rentetan tanah runtuh di Hulu Klang tidak mungkin terhenti selagi hujan menyirami muka bumi Kuala Lumpur yang merupakan kawasan kedua terbasah di pantai barat Semenanjung selepas Taiping. Hanya penyaliran air bawah tanah yang efektif dapat mengurangkan risiko tanah runtuh di Hulu Klang.

Namun, ia tidak mungkin terlaksana dalam masa terdekat akibat faktor ekonomi, kerenah birokrasi serta pembangunan sedia ada."

Nevertheless, I can feel the heartrending of loosing property; love ones and the aftermath trauma. I extend my condolence to those who are affected by this normal process of surface formation of the earth that always ongoing.