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| Sunday, 6 February 2005 |
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UDA on an extensive rebuilding program by Don Asoka Wijewardena The Urban Development Authority (UDA) has commenced an extensive rebuilding program in the tsunami-affected areas. According to Hemantha Jayasundara, Project Management Director, UDA, the first step includes proper construction plan for urban areas and the second step is to rebuild houses, schools and commercial buildings in the affected areas and provide accommodation to the affected. He also said that these two processes were being carried out simultaneously to help the affected.
The 100 m will be measured from the high water level during off season and it is called the mean high water line of 100 m strip, 200m strip and 300m strip. He also said that in the cyclone-prone Eastern coast, the width of the 100m strip be increased to 200m and in exceptionally fragile areas, identified by the Coast Conservation Department, (CCD) the 100m strip shall be increased to 150m. When asked about any construction in progress, Jayasundara said that construction work had already begun in the Galle and Matara districts, with complete redesigned two-storeyed houses, for two families, each, consisting of a floor area of 443-428 sq. ft. on the ground floor and upper floor area of 330-442 sq. ft., on a land of 6 perches in extent. He said that another unit consisting a ground floor area of 453-469 sq. ft. and upper floor area of 341-631 sq. ft. on a land in extent of 6 perches would solve the immediate housing problems of the affected people. "Our objective is to create a perfect neighbourhood replete with required infrastructure facilities so that the affected people will feel a sense of togetherness once again," Jayasundara emphasised. He also stressed that the UDA would neither suggest nor advise any organisation to reclaim marshy lands whatsoever because of the rich bio-diversity of those lands. He explained that the lack of strong soil and spending more money on foundation to reclaim marshy lands would cause unnecessary problems and added that marshy lands had been extremely useful to accommodate flood water for many decades in Sri Lanka. |
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Referring to the coastal buffer zone that is to be instituted for the
safety of residents, he explained that during off seasons the level of
water in the sea is high but at other times the water level is low.
"The latter is called mean sea level.
