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PASIR GUDANG: Cleaning up works at the polluted area in Sungai Kim Kim are going smoothly, with a total of 1 kilometre of the 1.5 kilometre affected area covered as of midnight yesterday.
Minister of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change, Yeo Bee Yin, said she was satisfied with the progress, in particular in the way the works were done in a prompt and careful manner.
"This is good development, following works to clean up the area which was most contaminated with hazardous chemical waste - covering 680 metres - yesterday afternoon.
"We expect works to clean up the remaining 500-metre area to complete within two days if the weather permits," she added.
Yeo said this after visiting victims at the early treatment centre at the Pasir Gudang Municipal Council (MPPG) Indoor Stadium (MPPG), here.
Yeo was reported yesterday as saying the cleaning works were done 24 hours a day by three contractors, involving 90 workers since last Wednesday.
"A total of 250 jumbo bags containing soil and sludge materials as well as 350 metric tons of contaminated water was collected in operations that began on March 13, and will be disposed off to a refinery licensed by the Johor Department of Environment, "she said yesterday.