Beach vanishes as strong waves threaten village – Sabah | BorneoPost Online | Borneo , Malaysia, Sar


– Haji Ismail Hj Dullah, 76, who has resided at Kg Contoh since 2003
with his wife and 12 children, said the first wall of the same height
built in 1997 collapsed several years later while being repeatedly
pounded by waves.

Beach vanishes as strong waves threaten village – Sabah | BorneoPost Online | Borneo , Malaysia, Sar

KOTA KINABALU: What used to be a 50-metre sandy beach at Kampung Contoh in Putatan is now gone as a result of erosion by surging waves.According to an elderly

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Dept ‘not to blame for delay’ | Daily Express Newspaper Online, Sabah, Malaysia.



“But when reclamation was undertaken, very severe coastal erosion
occurred, particularly in Kg Contoh, partly because the 100-metre long
bar at the mouth of the Petagas River was removed during the reclamation
process. Hence the waves began to hit the village directly,” Yabi said.

Dept ‘not to blame for delay’ | Daily Express Newspaper Online, Sabah, Malaysia.

Kota Kinabalu: The Environmental Protection Department feels it is being unfairly implicated in the KKIA extension project delay.

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