DBKL to do weekly fogging, larviciding at abandoned building site

DBKL Health and Environment officers checking the abandoned construction site in Mont Kiara.

KUALA Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) has moved in to check a health hazard in the form of an abandoned construction site that surrounding residents fear may be breeding ground for Aedes mosquitoes.

Upon receiving complaints from Mont Kiara Residents Association (MKReA), the local authority carried out fogging and larviciding at the premises on May 5.

However, the residents’ fears are not allayed. As such, DBKL sent a team of 10 personnel from its Health and Environment Department to inspect the site again recently.

MKReA secretary Shereen Abdullah said the project in Jalan Kiara 3 was abandoned in the middle of construction about 10 years ago.

“DBKL’s report stated that 100 possible mosquito-breeding spots were found inside the construction site and another 50 were found outside of it.

“The officers informed us that they are dispatching more manpower to the site to conduct larviciding and fogging once a week.

“Some guppies were also released into areas with stagnant water to kill the mosquito larvae, ” she added.

DBKL Health and Environment Department director Dr Noor Akma Shabudin said the premises in Mont Kiara was one of 19 sites issued with a notice this year under Section 82 to clean up.

“To-date, 59 construction sites were checked, of which 11 had been given stop-work order after we found multiple mosquito-breeding grounds.”A total of 77 compounds were issued for offences under the Destruction of Disease-Bearing Insects Act 1975 (Act 154), ” she said.