SHAH ALAM, June 10 ― The Selangor Water Management Board has received information about diesel-like odour pollution measuring up to three tonnes detected at the River Monitoring Station in Section 3, Bangi, at 11.15am yesterday.
Following that, he said a monitoring operation conducted by LUAS together with related agencies such as the National Water Commission and Air Selangor had investigated several locations to identify the source of pollution. “The estimated distance of the pollution location from the inlets, namely Semenyih 2 LRA is 6.63 kilometres ; Bukit Tampoi LRA and Labohan Dagang LRA ,” he said.
Hee said LUAS and Air Selangor were still investigating the cause of the odour pollution and the frequency of LUAS’ odour sampling in Sungai Langat had also been increased from one hour to 30 minutes to closely monitor the status.