Industrial compound found at Sg Batang Benar pollution site, says state official


Negri Sembilan authoriesi have found Dimethyl Disulfide at the site of a recent pollution incident at Sg Batang Benar, Nilai, which caused major water supply disruption in Selangor. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, October 29, 2020.

THE preliminary analysis of samples taken from the source of pollution in Sg Batang Benar, Nilai, found that it was due to an organic compound known as Dimethyl Disulfide.

Negri Sembilan health, environment, cooperatives and consumerism action committee chairman S. Veerapan said the result, obtained last Saturday, last week, was from the analysis of five soil samples taken in the bush area near an industrial area at Jalan Emas, Nilai Industrial Area, which was the source of pollution in the river.


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