Is progress necessary good? Well it is fine line between having people with jobs so they have a comfotable living while still trying to protect the enviroment.
But it is so difficult to maintain the enviroment. If only the people take care during their construction it would not result in the badly silted lake situation at the Ringlet Lake. Now when the authorities tried to repair the damage, it caused some other effect downstream. Read on...
Clean-up results in pollution
By MAZNI MUSTAFA
Saturday March 11, 2006
IPOH: Efforts by Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) to clean up the polluted Ringlet Lake in Cameron Highlands has ironically resulted in pollution downstream at Jor Dam in Bernam.
Unless measures are taken to overcome the sedimentation problem, the Perak Water Board (LAP) may have to close the dam.
State Health, Science and Environment Committee chairman Datuk Tan Chin Meng said he found massive dredging and desilting work at the Ringlet Lake, when he visited the site with officers from the state Department of Environment last week following a complaint from the board.
“The board complained that desilting activities upstream had caused murky water to flow into the dam,” Dr Tan said yesterday.
“The situation is quite bad and LAP may be forced to shut down the dam if no immediate steps are taken.”
It is understood that TNB started desilting works at the Ringlet Lake on July 6 last year. The RM130mil project is part of a maintenance exercise to achieve full capacity of the hydroelectric dam and is due for completion in December next year.
Uncontrolled development over the years had caused 75% of the lake to be silted, increasing flood risks.
Tan said the Perak DOE and LAP had sent notices to TNB requesting that it take the necessary action.
Source: The Star
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