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Wuhan finds apartments built on polluted site
By Pan Zheng |
November 30, 2010, Tuesday
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A budget housing complex in China's southwest Hubei Province was found constructed on the original site of a chemical factory, exposing more than 2,000 households to pollution risks.
Its developer tried to address the problem facing the apartment complex in Jiang'an District of Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province, but it did not inform the residents, the Beijing News reported today.
There are over 2,400 apartments in the complex. Most of them are for families relocated by urban projects in Wuhan and the rest are sold as budget homes. All the apartments have been sold out and some families have already moved in.
An evaluation report by the Wuhan Environmental Protection Bureau, which was supposed to be finished before the construction started, came out in November 2009, when the construction was almost completed.
The report showed the construction was approved by Wuhan Land and Resources Bureau and Wuhan Planning Bureau before an environmental evaluation was made.
"The land was unqualified according to environmental protection requirements," the report said.
It also showed the original chemical factory specialized in fluorine products and electroplating additives, all harmful to human health.
"If the chemical materials are left in the soil, the poisonous effect can remain for decades," said Luo Yongming, a PhD student supervisor of Nanjing Soil Research Institute.
The developer has covered the polluted ground with plastic film and put clean soil on the film to isolate pollutants, but health hazards remain to be verified.
A retired worker of the chemical factory, surnamed Yan, is one of the residents. He knows the risk lurking in ground but most of his neighbors are still kept in the dark.
"Of course, it is impossible to remove the buildings but who should be held responsible for our health?" Yan said angrily.
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Its developer tried to address the problem facing the apartment complex in Jiang'an District of Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province, but it did not inform the residents, the Beijing News reported today.
There are over 2,400 apartments in the complex. Most of them are for families relocated by urban projects in Wuhan and the rest are sold as budget homes. All the apartments have been sold out and some families have already moved in.
An evaluation report by the Wuhan Environmental Protection Bureau, which was supposed to be finished before the construction started, came out in November 2009, when the construction was almost completed.
The report showed the construction was approved by Wuhan Land and Resources Bureau and Wuhan Planning Bureau before an environmental evaluation was made.
"The land was unqualified according to environmental protection requirements," the report said.
It also showed the original chemical factory specialized in fluorine products and electroplating additives, all harmful to human health.
"If the chemical materials are left in the soil, the poisonous effect can remain for decades," said Luo Yongming, a PhD student supervisor of Nanjing Soil Research Institute.
The developer has covered the polluted ground with plastic film and put clean soil on the film to isolate pollutants, but health hazards remain to be verified.
A retired worker of the chemical factory, surnamed Yan, is one of the residents. He knows the risk lurking in ground but most of his neighbors are still kept in the dark.
"Of course, it is impossible to remove the buildings but who should be held responsible for our health?" Yan said angrily.
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