CAMERAS designed to monitor traffic flow will now also keep an eye out for a different kind of congestion - flooding that comes with the year-end wet weather.

The national water agency PUB yesterday said it will tap the Land Transport Authority's 24-hour closed-circuit television system to keep track of potential flooding.

The CCTVs will surely be called to duty as the north-east monsoon bites late this month. Weathermen at the National Environment Agency (NEA) expect the rain that it brings to continue into January, including periods of exceptionally heavy downpours.

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