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MEP Announces Pollution Control Progress at Danjiangkou

MEP official today announced the progress of controlling environmental pollution at Danjiangkou Reservoir and its upper reaches.

 

According to this official, some news media reported pollution problems at Danjiangkou Reservoir and its upper reaches in late June 2013. MEP dispatched a special investigation team to Henan, Hubei and Shaanxi Province to investigate the reported problems on the spot. Later, it issued letter of environmental supervision to the EPB of the three provinces, ordering them to deal with the reported problems and urging local government to rectify the problems.

  

The official said Henan, Hubei and Shaanxi Province have made staged progress in rectification according to their reports submitted to MEP.

 

Xichuan County government of Henan Province have stamped out all 19 dining boats at Songgang wharf, Danjiangkou Reservoir area and other boats are improving wastewater and refuse collection facilities as required. All fish restaurants and other restaurants around the reservoir have suspended business for rectification. 14 illegal structures around the reservoir area were demolished. The county government has developed an implementing scheme and it is expected to eliminate net-cage aquaculture at the reservoir area by the end of February 2014. The Daguanyuan tourism project at Danjiang river was stopped on June 19, 2013 and those projects under construction including Wenboyuan, Wujiaoyuan and century dragon and the water park have suspended business. Yudian Vanadium Limited Company was put on record by Nanyang municipal EPB and subject to penalty. Now completing rectification, it has passed environmental acceptance check by local EPB and restored production.

 

Shendinghe Sewage Treatment Plant of Shiyan, Hubei Province was put on record by Shiyan municipal EPB and subject to penalty. It has now completed upgrade of its treatment capacity, reused the abandoned sedimentation tank, sealed the overflow inside the factory and standardized the chief discharge outlet. The management system was also improved. What is left unfinished includes the reform of the dual power system, standardization of management of sludge disposal and environmental acceptance check. Meanwhile, Hubei provincial government and Shiyan municipal government have launched clear water action revolving around the special campaigns to rectify sewage treatment plants, landfill sites, sewage discharge outlets and watercourse refuse as well as drinking water source areas.

 

Ziyang county government of Shaanxi Province borrowed a loan of 30 million yuan to speed up the construction of local sewage treatment plant and landfill site. All equipment of the sewage treatment plant have reached the standard of normal operation after commissioning and various indicators for sewage treatment have met discharge standard. The online monitoring data was linked to the information network of the provincial EPB. The landfill site and relevant equipment have passed environmental acceptance check and the landfilling and leachate treatment system is now operating normally. The county government has collected and treated sewage that can flow into the network on the bank of Hanjiang River and taken temporary emergency measures such as building sedimentation tanks to deal with sewage that cannot access the network. Meanwhile, Ziyang county government asked towns along the river to establish five special cleanup teams to clear garbage on the river banks and floating substances in the river timely in order to curb pollution of Hanjiang River from domestic refuse.