22-03-2018, 12:22 PM
Tat Seng Packaging fined S$12,000 for discharging toxic used water into sewers
SINGAPORE: Tat Seng Packaging was fined S$12,000 for discharging toxic used water into public sewers, national water agency PUB said on Monday (Mar 19).
Besides Tat Seng, 17 other companies were fined a total of S$100,500 between November last year and February 2018 for illegally discharging into the public sewerage system.
SGX-listed Tat Seng had been caught and penalised for similar offences on four previous occasions between 2012 and 2015, PUB said.
In this latest case, PUB said it detected an abnormality in the quality of incoming used water at the Kranji Water Reclamation Plant on Sep 25, 2016.
Investigations found that Tat Seng had released "black and turbid industrial used water" into the public sewer.
Water quality tests showed that the discharge contained quantities of copper that exceeded the allowable limit by as much as three times, PUB said.
Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/sin...d-10055622
SINGAPORE: Tat Seng Packaging was fined S$12,000 for discharging toxic used water into public sewers, national water agency PUB said on Monday (Mar 19).
Besides Tat Seng, 17 other companies were fined a total of S$100,500 between November last year and February 2018 for illegally discharging into the public sewerage system.
SGX-listed Tat Seng had been caught and penalised for similar offences on four previous occasions between 2012 and 2015, PUB said.
In this latest case, PUB said it detected an abnormality in the quality of incoming used water at the Kranji Water Reclamation Plant on Sep 25, 2016.
Investigations found that Tat Seng had released "black and turbid industrial used water" into the public sewer.
Water quality tests showed that the discharge contained quantities of copper that exceeded the allowable limit by as much as three times, PUB said.
Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/sin...d-10055622