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Batang Kayan Waterfront Project, Lundu and the Sematan River Estuarine
15 April 2016 Conservation Project which will cost
RM6.96 million.
The event included the launching of
Sungai Batang Kayan bank project The Sematan waterfront project
and the ground breaking ceremony scope will involve the building of a
for a river bank protection project shoreline structure to prevent coastal
which were completed in the Tenth erosion, reclamation, building of a
Malaysia Plan (10MP) with the cost square including beautification and
of RM4 million. The scopes of project landscaping works. This project will
included the upgrading of the river and overcome long-term coastal erosion
the construction of flood mitigation issue and at the same time, creating
structures to address the issue in Batang a beautiful recreational and tourist
Kayan river. This project will indirectly attraction area for Sematan town.
solve river bank erosion and increase
the potential for Sungai Batang Kayan
as an eco-tourism, recreation product.

Sematan Waterfront Project and
Sematan River Estuarine Conservation
Project, Lundu 30 April 2016

The event included the launch of
two new projects in Lundu under the
Eleventh Malaysia Plan (11MP); the
Sematan Waterfront Project which
would cost a total of RM8 million