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The page read Malaysia's national flood portal, which has been publishing a flat zero for almost every gauge in Sarawak — so rather than print a false level, the page had been saying the gauge was not reporting. It now reads DID Sarawak's own portal, which has had real readings all along. Our apologies: it shipped on 13 August and has been blank since.
The water that floods Sibu falls days earlier in Kapit, Baleh, Song and Kanowit. This page reads all nine gauges at once, in the order the water travels, and puts each reading against the alert levels the Drainage and Irrigation Department publishes for that exact gauge. The gauges from Kanowit down are marked tidal, because they rise and fall by more than two metres a day on their own — at those, the height matters and the direction does not.
The town page now opens with a drawing of the passenger express boats moored at the wharf, with a shipyard and a half-built hull on the far bank.
Our notes on how the town is serviced named the Sibu Water Board as the water company. It was merged with the Kuching Water Board and LAKU into Sarawak Water Sdn Bhd on 1 August 2025, with Sibu as its Central Region. We have corrected the research and every page that mentions water, and recorded where the company now publishes its interruption notices.
Chinese New Year, Chap Goh Meh, Cheng Beng, the Hungry Ghost Festival, Mid-Autumn, Gawai Dayak, the two Hari Rayas, Good Friday, Christmas, Sarawak Day and the anniversary of the 1901 Foochow landing — each with its next date worked out for you. Four different calendars decide when Sibu closes, and none of them lines up with the others from one year to the next.
Water, the council, floods, boats and air quality, with the right number for each. Sibu is covered by two councils and a separate rural water department, and none of their websites tells you which one covers where you live. It also notes that the Sibu Water Board was merged into Sarawak Water in August 2025 — the old 24-hour number still works.
Tap your area if you have no water, and see whether your neighbours have reported the same. Sibu loses about 46% of the water it treats to mains that crack as the peat under the town settles, which is why a cut in one area says little about the next. The page carries Sarawak Water's 24-hour line, because reporting a fault to them is the thing that gets it fixed.
The hourly Air Pollutant Index reading for Sibu's own monitoring station, with the last 24 hours so you can see which way it is going. It says plainly where 200 sits — the level at which the National Haze Action Plan closes schools — and who actually announces a closure, which is the State Education Department and the district office, not the index.
The river's level at the Express Terminal, shown against the four levels DID Sarawak publishes for that exact gauge. It explains the thing that catches people out: Sibu floods when rain that fell days earlier in Kapit, Baleh, Song and Kanowit arrives at the same time as a king tide, so watching the weather here is not enough. It also says which areas the town-centre flood scheme leaves out.
Sibu now has its own pages: the Rajang's flood levels, the air quality reading the school-closure rule is based on, a board for reporting when the water is off, who to call at which of the town's two councils, and the dates of every community's festivals worked out ahead. Sarawak's third town on Town Tools, after Taiping and Alor Setar in the peninsula.