Polluted, Many Dead Fish Float

DUMAI - Trenches in Tanjung Palas and Jaya Mukti polluted. Thousands of dead fish and eels float. Suspected cause is a waste of UR II Pertamina Dumai Refinery.

Contamination is known on Wednesday (14/8) morning, very worried residents. Therefore, most people use the ditch water for washing dishes and cooking utensils.

Information gathered in the field, the death of fish in the moat am known around 06.30 pm. When some residents will use the ditch water, they get a lot of dead fish floating.

Strong suspicion that pollution comes from oil refineries. Because the region's only oil refineries. Partly polluted ditch near oil refineries.

Not only dead fish, eels and even that usually stay in the pit was found to be gasping for breath and died. "This morning, I saw a lot of fish that have been floated. Also there is a dead eel," said Manulang, a resident who lives just behind the oil refineries.

This information is immediately developed among citizens. Not a few who look directly down into the ditch. Residents also reported the findings to the headman and subdistrict.

Wednesday afternoon officers from the Office of Environment (MoE) Dumai looked down to the ground. MOE officials took samples contaminated trench water. Come down to field management representative Pertamina, Dasma Sinaga.

Pahlawani, MOE officers were down, said he could not confirm the cause of death of fish in the moat that ran in the two villages. "We will check the sample first," he said.

About the alleged pollution from Pertamina refinery, Pertamina UR II did not want to respond. Sinaga Dasma reluctant to answer when this question to his side. "We leave it to the MOE," said the brief.(*)