MEDIA RELEASE -  November 3, 2009

The National Environment and Planning Agency has served an Enforcement Notice on the National Water Commission, NWC.  An Enforcement Notice requires the receiving party to, among other things, immediately cease the offending activity. This Notice follows an investigation into a chlorine discharge at the NWC’s Chlorine Bay on Mona Road in Kingston. The Notice was served under section 18 of the Natural Resources and Conservation Authority, NRCA, Act.  The Notice is attached to this document. 

Under Part A of the Notice, the Agency specifies the offending activity as the discharge of residual chlorine gas from gas cylinders into the environment at the Mona Dam in St. Andrew. Under Part B, the nature of the threat posed by the discharge of the chlorine gas is specified as posing a serious threat to public health--particularly those residents within the immediate environs of the Mona Dam.

Part C of the Notice outlines the specific measures which the NWC needs to undertake to ameliorate the effects of the discharge of the chlorine gas into the environment.

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