Flooding
The Kelantan River regularly overspills its banks during the months of November to February because of the northeast monsoon season. The estimate flood volume under the 50 year flood condition at Kusial Bridge is about 6 billion m3. Severe flooding occurred in 1926 and 1967. In the 1967 floods 84% of the Kelantan population (537,000 people) were badly affected. Some 125,000 people were evacuated and 38 drowned.
More recently a telemetric flood forecasting system has been installed to give warning of high river levels. Some of the worst floods in recent years have been:
Year | Evacuees | Deaths | Damage (US$1000) |
---|---|---|---|
2004 | 10476 | 12 | 3767 |
2003 | 2228 | 2 | 1461 |
2001 | 5800 | 0 | 2227 |
1993 | 13587 | 0 | 398 |
1988 | 41059 | 0 | ? |
1986 | 7963 | 0 | 1603 |
1983 | 33815 | 0 | ? |
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