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Embassy of Japan in
Kuala Lumpur
19th February 2014
The TBM1&2 Breakthrough Ceremony of the
Pahang-Selangor Raw Water Transfer Project, a collaboration between the
Japanese Government and the Malaysian Government under a yen-loan (up
to approx. eighty two billion Japanese Yen), was held in Hulu Langat,
Selangor on 19th February, 2014.
The section of the TBM1&2 was the last
remaining section of the 44.6km tunnel which started construction in
2009. All excavation work has been completed with this final
breakthrough.
The ceremony was attended by approximately 200
people including Dr. Kazuhiro Kawase, Counsellor and Head of the
Economic Section of the Embassy of Japan in Malaysia, Y.Bhg. Dato’ Dr.
Zullkefle bin Nordin, Director of the Pahang - Selangor Raw Water
Transfer Project, Ministry of Energy, Green Technology and Water,
other representatives from the federal government of Japan and Malaysia
as well as journalists from both countries.
During the ceremony, representatives from the
Japanese and Malaysian organizations turned on the inaugural switch for
the final breakthrough boring and witnessed the completion of the final
breakthrough.
The aim of this project is to distribute about
1.89 billion litres of
water per day from the state of Pahang to the state of Selangor and the
Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya. The project started
in June 2009. The tunnel length is 44.6km and it is the 11th longest
tunnel in the world. Another characteristic of the tunnel is the large
overburden (distance of the tunnel from the surface of the earth); the
tunnel has a maximum overburden of 1,246m with about 5km of the tunnel
section with an overburden of more than 1,000m.
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Welcome Speech by Y.Bhg. Dato Dr. Zullkefle,
KeTTHA
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Final Boring
Switching
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Participants in the Ceremony
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Completion of
Breakthrough
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Speech by Dr. Kawase,
Embassy of Japan |
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