Whole village moves to avoid deadly discharges
By Jane Chen |
April 2, 2010, Friday
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ALL the residents in an east China village are being relocated to a site kilometers away over environmental concerns as discharges from a nearby garbage plant allegedly killed all crops and fish in the fields and ponds.
The local government finally announced the relocation after confirming the complaints from villagers, Anhuinews.com reported.
The plant in Ziyuan Village of Anhui Province's Lu'an City, Lu'an's only landfill site, has been handling a 300 tons of household garbage daily since starting operation in 2006.
Black fluid, or discharges from the spoiled garbage, flooded nearby farm land and ponds, killing nearly all the crops and animals, villagers told the Website.
"It is now impossible to find anything living in the fields or ponds," Zhu Jialun said.
"Particularly in rainy days, the fluid swells and floods more fields," she added.
Her description was backed by environment professor Jiang Zhenghua of East China University of Science and Technology.
Jiang said such discharges are highly pollutive, usually containing 22 types of pollutant substances. Crops growing with such discharges are unsafe to eat and the land could be seriously poisoned.
Government examination also confirmed the pollution, according to Xu Haifeng, official with Lu'an Environment Supervising Team.
But underwater was found intact during a sample check last September, he added.
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