Official responds to creek concerns
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AN official in Jinshan District has responded to complaints from local residents about foul-smelling creeks by promising to build two new sewage treatment plants and improve the domestic drainage system.
People living in the Tinglin area have for many years had to contend with the stench emanating from the Zhaoxianjing and Wangjiajing creeks.
“The smell has been here for several years,” said a local shopkeeper surnamed Tong.
“The creeks run through an industrial park, and its not just the water that smells bad, it’s the air too,” she said.
Wang Baoming, vice director of the district environment protection bureau, said the pollution is more a problem with household waste than industrial effluent.
“A lot of the houses in the area are occupied by migrant workers, and where there once might have been four or five people in a property, there are now 20 or more,” he said.
“The area does not have a proper sewerage network, so household waste has always drained into the creeks.
“The problem now is that there are so many people, and so much waste that the waterways simply can’t cope with it all,” he said.
Over the years, the two creeks have become clogged with sewage and other household trash, and despite recent efforts to drain and dredge them, the problem requires a long-term solution, Wang said.
Another resident, surnamed Yang, said that even after the Zhaoxianjing creek had been drained and dredged, it quickly went back to its “black and smelly” norm.
“We will speed up the construction of the sewerage network, and a new waste treatment plant will also be built to process domestic waste,” Wang said.
Some local residents had suggested that the foul odors and pollution had been the result of illegal dumping of waste by companies occupying the industrial park.
Wang said this was not the case, however, as a full investigation had been carried out and there was no evidence of foul play.
“Effluent from the industrial park is handled at a nearby sewage treatment works,” he said.
He did concede, however, that on rainy days, the plant struggles to cope and that sometimes waste water does flow back into the creeks, adding to the pollution problem.
Part of the improvement program will be the construction of a second new treatment plant between Tinglin and the existing facility, he said.
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