Category FAQs Search : Department of Irrigation and Drainage Sarawak
Question: Land Use Management
Answer: Land Use Management is a non-structural measure that needs to be adopted to prevent the deterioration of flood risk in the drainage catchments. It involves administrative or legislative procedures rather than construction orientated approach. Structural and non-structural measures are best applied together to achieve the most optimum solution in combating flooding in a catchment.
Urban developments frequently occur spontaneously with little regard to the adverse impact on the drainage systems in the areas. The filling of low lying areas within the flood plains for development has increased surface flows and blocked the drainage paths. Land use management measures are required to ensure that new development will not adversely affect the current flooding situation.
These management measures are a significant element in allowing development in the floodplain to proceed in a proper and controlled manner whilst the long term structural measures are being implemented.
(Source: Department of Irrigation and Drainage Sarawak, 06 May 2020)
Source Link: https://did.sarawak.gov.my/page-0-118-98-Resource-Centre-Stormwater-Management.html