The flash floods along Orchard Road in June last year were not caused by the construction of the Marina Barrage, says a panel of experts.
Its chairperson, Chan Eng Soon, dean of engineering at the National University of Singapore, said that the panel had used a computer program to re-create the storm conditions on the morning of 16 June 2010, but removed the barrage from the scene.
It found, however, that the floods would still have occurred even if the barrage, which creates Singapore’s fifteenth reservoir near the heart of the city, was not there. Full story
