Authorities told to clean river
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A RIVER in northern Hebei Province, into which 2,000 tons of untreated waste water are said to have been discharged every day, will be clean by the end of the month, local authorities said.
Local villagers said sausage casing manufacturing plants along the Qijie River in Shunping County had been dumping unprocessed water into the river over the past decade, the Yanzhao Metropolis Daily reported.
White foam could be seen in waterways in Shunping and downstream counties of Mancheng and Qingyuan, they said.
Villagers complained about the smell along the waterways and claimed underground water extracted from as deep as 100 meters wasn’t safe to drink.
Shi Guotian, deputy director of the Shunping Environmental Protection Bureau, said the local water processing plant could only purify 12,000 to 13,000 tons of waste water a day while the county was producing nearly 16,000 tons.
However, the waste water contained high levels of salt rather than toxins, Shi said.
Following numerous complaints, Shunping dammed the river in 2012 and the water ran north rather than into Mancheng and Qingyuan. But the dam had since broken.
Earlier this week, Baoding City, which administers Shunping, asked the environmental protection bureau to investigate.
After the inspection it told local authorities to ban waste water discharges into the river.
They were told to close factories and other facilities until the local waste water processing plant was fitted with new equipment to cope with demand.
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