THE factory which caused the recent odour pollution leading to thousands of people without water supply in the Klang Valley has had its licence suspended for seven days.
The Selayang Municipal Council said the owner has also been issued a RM1,000 compound for discharging waste improperly.
The source of the pollution was traced back to a premises in Kuang, Gombak.
“The owner has been instructed to clean up the discharge before we can allow them to operate.
“This was caused by their negligence as the substance had leaked out from a broken tank on the premises,” MPS president Shahman Jalaludin told StarMetro after the council’s full board meeting on Wednesday (July 24) morning.
The compound was issued under Section 11 of the Refuse Collection, Removal and Disposal By-Laws (MPS) 2007 Bylaws for discharging effluents except at places designed by the local council.
An acidic odour was detected at 3.30pm on Monday (July 22) at Sungai Kuang near Jalan Kampung Orang Asli, Kuang in Gombak by the Selangor Water Management Authority (LUAS).
State public health and environment committee chairman Jamaliah Jamaluddin, in a press statement, said LUAS coordinated with the Selangor Environment Department (DOE) and MPS at the site to trace the source of the smell, which came from a factory believed to be processing acrylic material for recycling.
She had said that inspections by LUAS, DOE and MPS at the premises found that there was an effluent flow from a tank leak causing the substance, which is believed to be a scheduled substance, poly methacrylic acid (PMAA), to overflow into drains up to Sungai Kuang.
