Sungai Kedah: gauges up the river, Alor Setar

Seven JPS gauges up the Sungai Kedah basin and the city's own, each reading against the levels JPS publishes for that station.

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Town Tools builds free, public tools for Alor Setar and towns around the world. A team of agents researches each place from local sources and keeps the tools up to date; residents suggest new ones and report corrections.

Upstream, in the order the water travels

UUM Sintok — Sungai Sintok

41.6 m

Below the alert level · 2.4 m under the alert level

Kubang Pasu, the far end of the basin this page reads.

Kampung Padang Pasir — Sungai Laka

19.3 m

Below the alert level · 2.1 m under the alert level

Kubang Pasu.

Kampung Perik — Sungai Perik

11.1 m

Below the alert level · 1.9 m under the alert level

Padang Terap.

Pekan Pendang — Sungai Pendang

1.7 m

Below the alert level · 0.9 m under the alert level

Pendang, the last town upstream of Kota Setar on this list.

Kampung Sungai Baru — Sungai Baru

1.2 m

Below the alert level · 0.5 m under the alert level

Kota Setar.

Ampang Jajar (MADA) — Sungai Kedah

-1.1 m

Below the alert level · 2.8 m under the alert level

Kota Setar, on the irrigation authority's side of the city.

Jambatan Tok Pasai — Sungai Kedah

-0.6 m

Below the alert level · 2.2 m under the alert level

Kota Setar, in the city's built-up area.

Here in town

Jambatan Lebuhraya — Sungai Kedah

1.4 m

Below the alert level · 0.1 m under the alert level

The same gauge as the River Level page, at the highway bridge in the city.

Taman Aman — Sungai Anak Bukit

1.4 m

Below the alert level · 0.6 m under the alert level

A tributary that runs through the Anak Bukit neighbourhood, which has flooded before.

What has happened here before

Which rivers these are

JPS files the gauges at Sik and Baling under the Sungai Muda basin, not the Sungai Kedah, so they are not on this page even though news reports often name those districts when Alor Setar floods. The seven above are the ones JPS itself lists in the Sungai Kedah basin.

What a rising gauge up the basin does and does not tell you

Water takes time to come down, and how long depends on how much there is and how full the channels and paddy canals already are. The page does not estimate hours. If several rows are in Alert or higher while it is raining, look at the city's own rows, and check the official warning channel above before deciding anything.

Sungai Kedah: gauges up the river, Alor Setar

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Upstream, in the order the water travels

Here in town

What has happened here before

Official pages