DID: Retention ponds not sold

Flood retention ponds are built on former mining ponds to divert water during floods. — YAP CHEE HONG/The Star

THE Kuala Lumpur Drainage and Irrigation Department (DID) has denied that it sold flood retention ponds situated on government land.

Its deputy director Ratna Rajah Sivapiragasam said even if the land where the retention ponds were situated in had been sold, the ponds themselves remained under the purview of the department.