Minister says monitoring would continue today to see if anything more needs to be done.
The cleaning up process along 1.5km of Sungai Kim Kim, in Pasir Gudang which began on Wednesday, following the dumping of toxic chemical waste there, was completed today.
Energy, Technology, Science, Climate Change and Environment Minister Yeo Bee Yin said, however, monitoring would continue today to see if anything more needs to be done. "The 1.5km-stretch of Sungai Kim Kim that was polluted has already been cleaned up but today we want to see what more 'touch up' we can do.
"Today can be said to be a day of monitoring. After that, then only we can look into what further action is needed,” she told the media at the state Disaster Management Committee’s operations room in Johor Bahru.Yeo said at the same time, 30 teams comprising DOE members and Chemistry Department personnel were deployed to 30 schools around the affected area today, to monitor air quality by using gas detectors.“Before this, we have monitored the air quality in different places...
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