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The second case of river pollution detected in Selangor this month will see more than a million homes and locals face another round of water cuts.
In the latest incident, 1,196,457 households and premises in 1,292 areas within the Kuala Lumpur, Petaling, Klang / Shah Alam, Kuala Selangor, Hulu Selangor, Gombak and Kuala Langat districts are affected.
Pengurusan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Air Selangor) in a statement said it was forced to shut down phases 1, 2 and 3 of Sungai Selangor, as well as the Rantau Panjang water treatment plants after contamination was detected in Sungai Selangor , a source of raw water supply, today at 2 am
“For the pollutant dilution and washing process at Sungai Selangor, rapid measures have been taken to release 600 Hours water with a daily capacity of 285 million liters and to release the raw water supply from the nearby dam totaling 800 million liters per day, “said Air Selangor.
He added that Lembaga Urus Air Selangor (Luas) has also carried out an operation to pump water with a daily capacity of 336 liters, for the same purpose.
At 6.30 am this morning, Air Selangor said that contamination was still detected in Sungai Selangor at the 1 TON level.
Following the latest incident, Air Selangor also said it was unable to resume restoring water supplies to 686 areas in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur. already experimenting Unscheduled water outages since the weekend due to leaking pipes that supplied treated water.
Earlier this month, more than 300,000 homes were affected by water cuts after Air Selangor was forced to shut down the Sungai Semenyih and Bukit Tampoi water treatment plants, also due to contamination in the raw water supply they draw from the nearby river.
Last month, a similar incident involving the dumping of pollutants from a factory in a tributary Sungai Selangor had also left 1.2 million households without water in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur.
This had caused Sungai Selangor Phase, 1, 2, and 3, as well as Rantau Panjang to shut down, and the water supply was only restored after six days.
