Boats seized in dredging crackdown
More than 100 sand-pumping systems and 40 boats have been impounded by the Kandal provincial Department of Water Resources and Meteorology in order to prevent riverbank collapse as water levels continue to rise.
Chun Penglong, the provincial department director, told the Post yesterday that navy police and the sand management control department spent two days confiscating machines and boats believed to be unlicensed.
“Currently, the sand transporters and sand-pumping systems have been impounded temporarily at the Phnom Penh national navy police base in order to check and verify the licence and inform the machines’ owners to stop for a moment while the water level continues to increase,” he said. …
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
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