Officials deny river pollution
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August 14, 2011, Sunday
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ENVIRONMENTAL protection authorities in Guangdong Province said yesterday that no chromium pollution has been detected in the Pearl River as they responded to an online claim the river's headwaters were polluted.
Water quality monitors have not seen any signs of chromium in the Pearl, a water source for tens of millions of people in the province, a senior official from Guangdong's Environmental Protection Department said.
Posts on weibo.com, a microblogging site, claimed that 300,000 cubic meters of water polluted with chromium were piped into the Nanpan River, located upstream from the Pearl River, spawning public concerns over water safety in one of the nation's most populous regions.
The posts cited a report from a newspaper in Yunnan Province, where the Nanpan River is located.
The report said the Qujing City government piped a large amount of polluted water into the Nanpan River from a nearby reservoir which had been polluted with 5,000 metric tons of chromium tailings.
Yunnan's environmental protection authorities issued a notice yesterday stating that the water quality of the Nanpan River had not been compromised.
The Guangdong official said environmental protection authorities will continue to monitor the Pearl River.
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