Sabariah Musa

Analysis the Impact of Bridges Existance for the Segamat River Using Infowork RS

Malaysia is experiencing two monsoonal seasons, which have induced heavy rainfall. The increasing of rainfall intensity and longer duration of rainfall has caused a flood. In 2007, Segamat city was hit by the flood due to increasing of rainfall and this has caused a huge damage in term of infrastructure as well as human life. Thus, this study was carried out with the aims to analyze the flood and develop a flood map for the Segamat River. The hydrological data, such as rainfall and streamflow data were retrieved from the Department of Irrigation and Drainage Malaysia (DID). While, for map preparation such as base map, landuse map and river map were delineated based on the topography map. Additionally, contour map was obtained from MACGDI. InfoWork River Simulation (RS) software was used for analysis and develops the flood map. Moreover, two scenarios were carried out to determine the effect of hydraulic structure presence in the waterway. The first scenario is the flood map without a bridge, while the second scenario is the flood map with a bridge. Based on the results, it clearly shows that the flood map with a bridge has higher flow, velocity and water table compared to the flood map without a bridge. In addition, a flood-prone area based on the developed map was identified. Thus, the generated flood map could serve important information to related agency in proposing a suitable design the mitigation works for this area.

Simplified Method for Groundwater Treatment Using Dilution and Ceramic Filter

Groundwater is one of the natural resources that is not susceptible to pollutants. However, increasing activities of municipal, industrial, agricultural or extreme land use activities have resulted in groundwater contamination as occured at the Research Centre for Soft Soil Malaysia (RECESS), Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM). Thus, aims of this study is to treat groundwater by using rainwater and simple ceramic filter as a treatment agent. The treatment uses rain water dilution, ceramic filters and combined method of dilute and filtering as an alternate treatment which are simple and more practical compared to modern or chemical methods. The water went through dilution treatment processes able to get rid of 57% reduction compared to initial condition. Meanwhile, the water that passes through the filtering process successfully get rid of as much as 86% groundwater parameters where only chloride does not pass the standard. Favorable results for the combination methods of dilution and filtration methods that can succesfully eliminate 100% parameters that donot pass the standards of the Ministry of Health and the Interim National Drinking Water Quality Standard such as those found in groundwater in RECESS, UTHM especially sulfate and chloride. As a result, it allows the raw water that will use clean drinking water and safe. It also proves that the method used in this study is very effective in improving the quality of groundwater.

Green roof as a potential Sustainable structure for runoff reduction

Urbanisation has changed the vegetated pervious areas into impervious urban roof areas and increase water production and urban heat island effects. In attempt to solve excessive water problems in urban area, green roof or vegetated roof structure as a part of Sustainable Urban Drainage System (SUDS) structure; has been introduced to replicate the pervious vegetated area on vacant urban roofs with role to control water quantity at source. This study examined the potential of green roof at retaining rainfall with less storage available than its maximum water capacity based on the antecedent dry weather period (ADWP) of less than 24 hours. The soil composition has permeability of 0.00011 cm/s with porosity of 55.1% that is equivalent to 44.1 mm available maximum storage from its total substrate depth of 80 mm. Result shows that events with ADWP more than 19 hours were 100% retained while events with ADWP less than 15 hours has shown various retention from 50-100% retention depends on total rainfall. Therefore this study has shown that one of the main factors that affected the retention percentage was the available storage within the green roof itself due to loss activities during dry days.

Groundwater Responses on Pumping Analysis for Clayey Aquifer

The relationship between water quantity and clayey layer shows that water storage was very limited to an infiltration into the ground layer which is still retains as a surface water during recharge by precipitation. This paper consists of pumping analysis by using AQTESOLV model in a groundwater response for clayey area to identify the capability of water quantity actions during the discharge and recharge flows. Based to pumping analysis, including type of pump used, discharge rate, water table response, recharge rate, type of soil, and remaining time shows that this area was unconfined aquifer with has low hydraulic conductivity below than 9.6 mm/hr. Therefore, this simulation shows that the quantity and capacity of water intake able to withdrawal more than 40 m3/day by using 1hp pump and above with a constant rate after 4 days pumping continuously. The capability of storage and intake should be considered by natural (rainfall) or man-made recharge to show the water balance in the system whiles the process of pumping continuously. Therefore, this analysis able to predicts the capacity of groundwater storage at the clayey characteristics while it needs to improve any strategy to generate more water intake.

Sustainable solar energy capability studies by using S2H model in treating groundwater supply

Groundwater extracted in Research Centre for Soft Soil Malaysia (RECESS) contains a number of pollutants that exceed the safe level for consumption. A Solar-Hydro (S2H) model which is a practical prototype has been introduced to treat the groundwater sustainably by solar energy process (evaporation method). Selected parameters was tested which are sulphate, nitrate, chloride, fluoride, pH and dissolved oxygen. The water quality result shows that all parameters have achieved 100% of the drinking water quality standard issued by the Ministry of Health Malaysia. Evaporation method was proven that this solar energy can be applied in sustainably treating groundwater quality with up to 90% effectiveness. On the other hand, the quantitative analysis has shown that the production of clean water is below than 2% according to time constraints and design factors. Thus, this study can be generate clean and fresh water from groundwater by using a simplified model and it has huge potential to be implemented by the local communities with a larger scale and affordable design.

Flood Water Level Mapping and Prediction Due to Dam Failures

Sembrong dam has undergone overflow failure. Flooding has been reported to hit the town, covering an area of up to Parit Raja, located in the district of Batu Pahat. This study aims to identify the areas that will be affected by flood in the event of a dam failure in Sembrong Dam, Kluang, Johor at a maximum level. To grasp the extent, the flood inundation maps have been generated by using the InfoWorks ICM and GIS software. By using these maps, information such as the depth and extent of floods can be identified the main ares flooded. The flood map was created starting with the collection of relevant data such as measuring the depth of the river and a maximum flow rate for Sembrong Dam. The data were obtained from the Drainage and Irrigation Department Malaysia and the Department of Survey and Mapping and HLA Associates Sdn. Bhd. Then, the data were analyzed according to the established Info Works ICM method. The results found that the flooded area were listed at Sri Lalang, Parit Sagil, Parit Sonto, Sri Paya, Parit Raja, Parit Sempadan, Talang Bunut, Asam Bubok, Tanjung Sembrong, Sungai Rambut and Parit Haji Talib. Flood depth obtained for the related area started from 0.5 m up to 1.2 m. As a conclusion, the flood emanating from this study include the area around the town of Ayer Hitam up to Parit Raja approximately of more than 20 km distance. This may give bad implication to residents around these areas. In future studies, other rivers such as Sungai Batu Pahat should be considered for this study to predict and reduce the yearly flood victims for this area.

THE STUDY ON EFFECTIVENESS AND FLOW CHARACTERISTIC OF GRASSED SWALE DRAINAGE SYSTEM IN UTHM

The drainage system is an infrastructure that requires systematic planning of construction which can function properly to reduce the risk of flooding. Flooding occurs due to the rapid development resulting in lack of permeable surfaces. This will lead to increase the surface runoff, where the flow velocity and flow discharge also will be increased. Therefore, grassed swale is one of the sustainable drainage systems that can be applied to solve this problem. This study aims to identify the effectiveness of the grassed swale drainage system at Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), to determine the hydraulic characteristics and the effectiveness of vegetation used in the swale drainage system. Through this approach, the solution of past studies, related journals, and Manual Saliran Mesra Alam (MSMA) [1] are used as a reference for this study. Data collection was conducted on grassed swale with total length 60 meters. To obtain an accurate data, measurements of flow velocity have been taken three times, and for three days after raining. Data was observed by 81 times and analyzed using the Manning’s equation. Manning’s equation was adopted to determine the value of hydraulic coefficients for the grass swale channel. The results obtained, demonstrates that the value of Manning’s n for all sections is stated in a range of 0.015 to 0.030. The results also showed a difference in the size of the design, the flow velocity, the water depth, and the flow discharge of the grassed swale drainage system.

Groundwater Eco-Distribution System for the Combination of SAT and Therapy-Electrolysis Methods

Abstract. Groundwater quality is generally affected by the soil type and being polluted naturally due to the soil properties itself. This paper aims to examine the effectiveness of reducing the contamination of groundwater by a simple treatment using duo soil aquifer treatment (SAT) and therapy-electrolysis processes. The SAT was applied using physical recharge well system (REWES) in deep clay medium. The filtration in the well was also properly designed to purify the abstraction and treat discharges. Other contaminations such as fluoride, nitrate, chloride and turbidity in the groundwater were treated by therapy-electrolysis techniques. This treatment method reduces more than 64% of contaminations contain without affecting its mineralogy. Therefore, these duo treatments have the best combination of methods to reduce the unneeded contaminations without affecting the groundwater purity. A groundwater eco-distribution system is useful to be implemented in terms of economic process and is ecological friendly for water distribution facilities.