{"id":69534,"date":"2026-07-17T22:36:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=69534"},"modified":"2026-07-17T22:36:03","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:36:03","slug":"chemical-smell-detected-across-central-region-in-singapore-nea-says-air-quality-within-usual-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=69534","title":{"rendered":"Chemical smell detected across central region in Singapore, NEA says air quality within &#8216;usual&#8217; range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE: The National Environment Agency (NEA) said on Friday (Jul 17) that the air quality across parts of Singapore&#8217;s central region has been within the &#8220;usual&#8221; range, in response to feedback about a gas or chemical smell detected the day before.<\/p>\n<p>In a Facebook post, the agency said it received the feedback from around 11pm on Thursday about the smell in areas including Tanjong Rhu, Kallang and Novena.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have checked the air quality onsite and have been monitoring the air quality at the nearest monitoring stations. So far, the air quality has been within the usual range,&#8221; said NEA, adding that it will continue to monitor and investigate the source of the smell.<\/p>\n<p>Netizens have taken to social media platforms such as Reddit to report a smell in areas including Balestier, Jalan Besar and Lavender, with some describing it as gas-like or sulphurous. Users said they first noticed the smell at about 9pm on Thursday, and that it persisted more than 18 hours later.<\/p>\n<p>NEA said it will share updates if there are &#8220;developments of public concern&#8221;, adding that members of the public may provide feedback on such &#8220;unusual smells&#8221; through the myENV app or OneService app.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/chemical-gas-smell-central-region-nea-air-quality-usual-6261091\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: The National Environment Agency (NEA) said on Friday (Jul 17) that the air quality across parts of Singapore&#8217;s central region has been within the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--XdI7A4K3--\/c_crop,h_448,w_797,x_3,y_0\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2024-04:reuters_1,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/one-cms\/core\/2024-10-01t101309z_1_lynxmpek9018d_rtroptp_3_singapore-property.jpg?itok=ZNt4j10d","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[364,2970,11551,1995,8939,4001,3974,3665,22,25340,6258],"class_list":["post-69534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-air","tag-central","tag-chemical","tag-detected","tag-nea","tag-quality","tag-range","tag-region","tag-singapore","tag-smell","tag-usual","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}