SEREMBAN: The Negri Sembilan government is awaiting a detailed report from the state Department of Environment (DoE) on a river pollution incident in Batang Benar, Nilai.
State Health, Environment, Cooperatives and Consumerism Committee chairman S. Veerapan said that a report on the case from the state Water Regulatory Body (BKSA) is also on the way.
"Based on an investigation conducted last night, state DoE director Azuri Azizah Saedon said that the cause is still unknown and thus far, it is based on assumptions.
"The pollution (could have originated) from duck farms in Kuala Sungai Pajam, which borders Negri Sembilan and Selangor; leachate from a Pajam landfill; or from a chicken egg processing plant in the Nilai 2 industrial area," he said in a statement here, today.
Veerapan said stakeholders are already in Batang Benar to discuss the next step in the country's latest water pollution crisis.
Yesterday, Pengurusan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Air Selangor) said that 309,687 account holders in Petaling, Hulu Langat, Kuala Langat and Sepang would experience unscheduled water supply disruptions after operations at two Water Treatment Plants (LRAs) were suspended due to pollution.
The two LRAs are Sungai Semenyih and Bukit Tampoi.
Selangor Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Amirudin Shari was quoted as saying that the source of the pollution was Sungai Batang Benar, which is 30 kilometres from the Sungai Semenyih LRA. - Bernama