Water supply to be restored very soon, says Selangor MB

DENGKIL: Klang Valley residents affected by the Sungai Semenyih water treatment plant shutdown would have received water supply from midnight yesterday.

Selangor Mentri Besar Datuk

Seri Amirudin Shari said 24 million litres of water was channelled from Tasik

Idaman in Dengkil to the plant to dilute the water and bring down the threshold odour number (TON) reading to zero.

“I hope consumers whose supply has been restored do not resort to ‘panic storing’ of water as this will only disrupt the water level in the dam and spoil efforts to reduce the risk of odour contamination,” he said after visiting Tasik Idaman yesterday.

The Sungai Semenyih plant was forced to shut down since Saturday due to odour pollution, believed to have been caused by irresponsible individuals disposing illegal waste with solvent odours at the inlet around the Indah Water

Konsortium (IWK) plant in Bandar Bukit Mahkota.

Following the plant closure, 366 areas with 328,957 consumer accounts in Petaling, Hulu Langat, Kuala Langat and Sepang were affected.

IWK commenced cleaning efforts at 4pm on Sunday.

“The state government has asked the Kajang Municipal

Council to limit access to the area, as irresponsible parties have dumped illegal waste there twice – first in September,” Amirudin said.

“This is a deliberate act as the volume is high and it happened at the same location twice.”

Amirudin hopes to attain a solution as the water problem has affected the credibility of Pengurusan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd and the state government. – Bernama