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SHAH ALAM: The Selangor Water Management Board (LUAS) and Pengurusan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Air Selangor) jumped into action by taking early preventative measures after a level three contamination incident with odor threshold (TON) was detected upstream from Sungai Kuang after a factory fire in Gombak yesterday.
The Chairman of the State Committee for Environment, Green Technology, Science, Technology and Innovation and Consumer Affairs, Hee Loy Sian, said that currently, LUAS, Air Selangor and the Selayang Municipal Council (MPS) had placed 43 bags of coal activated in Sungai Kundang, which receives the input of water. of Sungai Kuang, which is one of the main tributaries of the Sungai Selangor basin.
“This measure is to avoid the smell of the fire from the plastic processing factory, which is located 33 km from the Rantau Panjang (LRA) water treatment plant that flows into Sungai Sembah and then to Sungai Selangor.
“So far, LUAS, Air Selangor and MPS are working to prevent debris resulting from the fire from flowing into the river by constructing an earth pack at the site,” Hee said in a statement here today.
Following the incident, the factory received a water protection order under Section 122 of the Selangor Water Management Authority (LUAS) Act 1999 regarding the risks and threats posed by the incident to quality of water sources.
“So far, the LRA continues to function and no water outages are reported. Mitigation monitoring and surveillance efforts have been intensified and will be carried out by LUAS and other stakeholders from time to time, ”Hee said.
He said the odor contamination was detected at 10 p.m. yesterday and that the investigation found that the remains of the fire were on the surface of the water. Burned black components had flowed into the upper streams of Sungai Kuang.
