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Selangor improving supply of raw water to treatment plants

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This involves installations of a high-powered pump and water pipelines.

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Enforcement officers taking samples from Sungai Selangor in Sepang to test for pollutants. (Bernama pic)

SHAH ALAM:
The Selangor government is building dedicated infrastructure to channel raw water to treatment plants in Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya more systematically.

State infrastructure and public amenities, agriculture modernisation and agro-based industry committee chairman Izham Hashim said this would be done as part of the Raw Water Guarantee Scheme (SJAM) initiative.

In a statement today, he said this was part of the state government’s efforts to improve the quality of raw water resources in Selangor.

He said the initiative would see the installation of a pump which can handle 3,000 litres of water per day (JLH), the construction of a pumphouse, raw water pipelines and an automatic water control gate in Sungai Selangor.

Izham said the project was expected to be ready by the end of the year.

“SJAM will tackle water pollution and insufficient raw water issues in Selangor. This includes heavier punishments for offenders under the Selangor Water Management Authority (Luas) Enactment 1999 (Amendment) 2020.

“It also covers 24-hour surveillance and monitoring in sensitive areas in the Sungai Selangor and Sungai Langat river basins.

“It includes pumping alternative raw water sources from the Hybrid Off River Augmentation System (Horas) 600 reservoir in Sungai Selangor and Pond C in Sungai Semenyih,” he said.

Meanwhile, Izham said Syarikat Pengurusan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Air Selangor) had detected high levels of ammonia at the Sungai Selangor Fasa 1 (SSP1), Sungai Selangor Fasa 2 (SSP2), and Sungai Selangor Fasa 3 (SSP3) water treatment plants at 7am on Thursday.

However, he said the immediate activation of SJAM had helped prevent disruptions to the operations of the three main water treatment plants in the state.

According to him, 500 JLH of alternative raw water was pumped into Sungai Selangor from Horas 600, followed by the channelling of 384 JLH of alternative water from the KL Larut water resource pond.

“The alternative raw water pumping was aimed at diluting and lowering the ammonia concentration.

“As of this morning, 516 million litres of alternative raw water had been channelled into Sungai Selangor. This has successfully controlled the pollution,” he added.

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