BEIJING, April 22 (Xinhua) According to the WeChat WeChat official account news of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the second round and the third batch of central eco-environmental protection inspectors went deep into the field, verified a number of outstanding eco-environmental problems, and verified a number of formalism and bureaucratic problems such as inaction, slow action, failure to take responsibility, and even perfunctory response and fraud. In order to play a warning role and effectively promote the rectification of problems, the second batch of 8 typical cases are now publicly notified.
Tianrui Coking Company in Ruzhou, Henan Province arbitrarily discharges pollutants in the name of "zero emission"
Since 2017, People’s Daily, China Youth Daily and many other media have repeatedly named and reported the illegal sewage discharge of Ruzhou Tianrui Coal Coking Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Tianrui Coking) in Pingdingshan City, Henan Province, and the verifiable environmental protection 12369 people reported it more than 29 times. Recently, the Fifth Ecological Environmental Protection Inspector Group of the Central Committee found that the environmental violations of Tianrui Coking are still very prominent, and there are environmental violations such as abnormal operation of pollution control facilities and serious excessive discharge of sewage, which are of a bad nature.
I. Basic information
Tianrui Coking is located in the industrial cluster area of Ruzhou City, with facilities such as coal washing, coal preparation, coking, coke quenching and gas power generation. At present, there is a set of 1 million tons/year tamping coke reconstruction project, with an annual output of 50,000 tons of tar, 13,000 tons of crude benzene and 13,000 tons of ammonium sulfate, and an annual power generation of 270 million kWh. The project started construction in May 2011 and was completed and put into operation in November 2014. According to the requirements of project construction approval, Tianrui coking wastewater should achieve "zero discharge".
In 2018, the media reported that "a village was entangled in sewage: crops were damaged and villagers got strange diseases", and the source of pollution directly pointed to Tianrui coking in the industrial cluster area of Ruzhou City, causing social repercussions. To this end, the main leaders of Ruzhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government went to the local area for investigation and disposal, and set up an investigation team composed of environmental protection, land, geology and mineral resources, safety supervision, forestry, public security and other departments to investigate, demanding to find the root cause of the problem and ensure the comprehensive elimination of pollution from the source. Due to the lack of in-depth and meticulous investigation, the Ruzhou Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government only implemented drinking water security measures for the villages around Tianrui Coking, and did not strictly urge enterprises to implement rectification from the source of sewage.
Second, the main problems
(a) illegal discharge of sewage.
Inspectors found that there was sewage discharged from the drainage outlet at the fence in the northeast corner of Tianrui Coking Plant, and the drainage was obviously black, with a large amount of oil on the surface and a very obvious tar smell. The inspectors followed the sewage flow direction. Through reconnaissance and drone survey along the line, it was found that Tianrui coking sewage meandered into a sewage pit without any anti-seepage measures on the northeast side of Zhaocun, which was less than 400 meters away from Ruhe River. Black mud was deposited in the ditch along the line, and oil flowers floated on the water surface. In order to further verify the situation, the inspectors made another surprise inspection at night, and found that a large amount of sewage was still discharged from the drainage outlet at the wall in the northeast corner of Tianrui Coking, and then entrusted the relevant statutory inspection units to conduct sampling and monitoring. The results showed that the concentrations of COD, ammonia nitrogen and cyanide in the discharged sewage exceeded the Discharge Standard of Pollutants for Coking Chemical Industry (GB16171— 2012) Table 2 Direct emission standards are 0.5 times, 3.5 times and 1.4 times.
(two) the abnormal operation of pollution control facilities
On April 1st, inspectors inspected Tianrui Coking Plant and found that Fenton reagent (mainly including hydrogen peroxide and ferrous sulfate) was not added to the Fenton reaction process of the coking wastewater treatment station (using biochemical+Fenton+ultrafiltration+reverse osmosis treatment technology), and the treatment facilities were ineffective. Since the ultrafiltration reverse osmosis equipment was put into operation in 2014, the cumulative running time is only ten days. It was hastily opened during two surprise inspections by the inspector group, but it has been unable to operate normally due to long-term disrepair. A large number of instruments in the central control system were damaged and not repaired in time; The manual records of wastewater treatment station operation are similar in handwriting, copied in data and falsified in records. Nor did it install online monitoring equipment at the outlet of coking wastewater treatment station as suggested in the EIA report.
The effluent from Tianrui Coking Wastewater Treatment Station is mainly used for coke quenching. The sampling and monitoring of the coke quenching pool show that the concentrations of COD, ammonia nitrogen, volatile phenol and cyanide in the coke quenching water respectively exceed the Discharge Standard for Pollutants in Coking Chemical Industry (GB16171— In 2012), the indirect discharge standard in Table 2 is 2.0 times, 14.2 times, 22.7 times and 13.2 times, which indicates that the operation of the coking wastewater treatment station is extremely abnormal, and a large number of pollutants are transferred from liquid to gas, which pollutes the atmospheric environment through the external discharge of the coke quenching tower.
(3) Sewage is illegally mixed into the rainwater system and discharged
The inspector group further traced back to the drainage source in the northeast corner of the factory and found that it mainly originated from the rainwater collection system in the factory. The monitoring results of the rainwater collection pool (with a volume of 4500m3) and the main rainwater drainage well in the factory area show that the concentrations of COD, ammonia nitrogen and cyanide in the rainwater collection pool respectively exceed the Discharge Standard for Pollutants in Coking Chemical Industry (GB16171— In 2012), the indirect discharge standard in Table 2 was 1.7 times, 11.7 times and 6.6 times, and the concentrations of COD, ammonia nitrogen, petroleum and cyanide in the rainwater drainage well exceeded the standard by 1.9 times, 4.8 times, 5.1 times and 2.2 times respectively, indicating that a large amount of sewage was mixed into the rainwater system for indirect discharge.
The inspector group hired experts from coking industry to conduct on-site inspection, consult materials and calculate the water balance of the plant area. It was found that Tianrui Coking Company could not achieve "zero discharge", and it was preliminarily estimated that hundreds of tons of sewage were discharged every day. Then, the sediment in the drainage channel in the northeast corner of the factory was sampled and analyzed by the relevant legal testing unit. It was found that the content of benzopyrene was 4.82 mg/kg, which exceeded the Standard for Soil Environmental Risk Control of Agricultural Land (Trial) (GB15618— 2018) The screening value standard is 7.76 times; The content of petroleum hydrocarbon is 7050 mg/kg, which exceeds the Standard of Soil Pollution Risk Control for Construction Land of Soil Environmental Quality (Trial) (GB36600— 2018) The screening value standard of the second type of land use shows that the sediment has been obviously enriched with coking characteristic pollutants due to long-term sewage discharge.
Third, the reason analysis
Ruzhou Municipal Party Committee, Municipal Government and Ruzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone Management Committee paid insufficient attention to the sewage disposal in the local industrial cluster area and failed in management. Faced with the pollution problems repeatedly reported by the masses and even exposed by the media, the remediation work was superficial, and the symptoms were not cured. It was not until the inspector group made two surprise inspections that they organized forces to clear the sewage and black mud deposited in the ditches along Tianrui Coking Drainage, which was a problem of inaction at ordinary times.
The inspector group will further investigate and verify the relevant situation and do the follow-up inspection work as required.
Old accounts in Changyang mining area, Shaoyang County, Hunan Province have not been settled, but new accounts have been added.
In April, 2021, the sinking inspector of the Sixth Central Eco-environmental Protection Inspector Group found that the regional eco-environmental problems were very prominent and the ecosystem was infringed to some extent in Changyang Mining Area of Shaoyang County, Hunan Province, due to historical mine pollution, long-term illegal production of existing brick-making enterprises and illegal construction of the proposed project.
I. Basic information
Changyang mining area in Shaoyang county, Hunan province was once one of the main coal producing areas in Shaoyang county. In the past, coal mining operations were extensive, and ecological damage and environmental pollution problems were always serious. In 2014, with the tightening of industrial policies, local coal mining enterprises closed down one after another, but the ecological environment problems left over from the mining area have not been treated for a long time. In addition, the existing Shaoyang Xinlian environmental protection brick factory has been illegally occupying forests and taking soil for a long time, and the proposed Shaoyang Jidian Changle photovoltaic power generation project has rudely leveled the site, which has caused the ecological environment damage in this area to intensify.
Second, the main problems
(A) the ecological and environmental problems left over from the mining area have not been effectively treated for a long time.
At the peak of Changyang mining area, there were four coal mining enterprises, which were generally small in scale, with poor profitability and fierce competition in the same industry. These coal mining enterprises were simply unable to do a good job in ecological environment protection, which brought serious ecological environment problems to Changyang mining area. With the tightening of the coal industry policy, all the coal mining enterprises in Changyang mining area withdrew in 2014, and the remaining ecological and environmental problems were neglected for a long time. More than 55,000 tons of waste residue overturned a large number of woodland slopes, and the leaching water and mine water in the mining area directly discharged into Shiyan Reservoir. It was not until 2018 that Shaoyang County simply restored less than two-thirds of the mining area by using the land consolidation funds of Hunan Province. At present, dozens of acres of land in the whole mining area are still occupied by more than 20,000 tons of waste residue, and more than 10,000 tons of acid leaching water and mine gushing water are directly discharged into Shiyan Reservoir in six mines every day. According to field sampling and analysis, the pH value of wastewater is only 3.30, and the total iron concentration is as high as 354 mg/L, which is equivalent to the Emission Standard for Pollutants in Coal Industry (GB 20426— 59 times that of 2006. Shiyan Reservoir, with a total storage capacity of 2.6 million cubic meters, is the most important water source for local production. At present, the whole reservoir is dark yellow with high concentrations of iron and manganese.
(2) Shaoyang Xinlian Environmental Protection Brick Factory has repeatedly banned deforestation.
The brick factory is located in Xinlian Village, Changle Township, Shaoyang County, adjacent to the north side of Shiyan Reservoir. It started production in 2014, with an annual output of 30 million shale bricks. On-the-spot inspection found that the management of the factory was extensive, the factory was dusty, the simple desulfurization and dust removal facilities were not operating normally, the borrow yard was illegally operated, and the mountains were cut down to destroy forests. Moreover, the factory has not obtained the administrative license from the forestry and natural resources departments of Shaoyang County so far. In 2017, the Shaoyang County Safety Committee reported to the county party committee and the county government about the illegal production of the factory reported by the masses. Shaoyang county forestry department, natural resources department (former land and resources department) and Changle township comprehensive administrative law enforcement brigade have repeatedly investigated and dealt with the factory’s unauthorized occupation of forest land and illegal exploitation of mineral resources, but all of them were fined; The eco-environmental department has investigated and dealt with the eco-environmental pollution of the factory for many times, but the illegal activities of the enterprise have been repeatedly banned, and the "sick" production has been carried out for a long time, which has led to the enterprise becoming more and more reckless.
(3) Shaoyang Jidian Changle Photovoltaic Project illegally constructed a rough and flat site
Shaoyang Jidian Changle Photovoltaic Project is an investment project strongly introduced by Shaoyang County, with a designed installed capacity of 100,000 kilowatts, including 57,000 kilowatts in the first phase of the project, covering an area of 967 mu. One plot of the project is adjacent to Shaoyang Xinlian Environmental Protection Brick Factory. Shaoyang county spared no effort to introduce the project, and acquiesced in the enterprise organization to clean up and level the land when the project procedures were not perfect. During the on-site inspection, it was found that the enterprise burned mountains in a large area.
Third, the reason analysis
The long-standing problem of ecological environment in Changyang mining area of Shaoyang County reflects that Shaoyang county party committee and government do not understand the new development concept deeply, pay insufficient attention to ecological environment protection, and act slowly on environmental protection and people’s livelihood issues. The ecological and environmental problems in Changyang mining area have existed for more than 20 years, and the local area has not raised funds for ecological restoration and environmental protection for a long time. It was not until 2018 that provincial funds were used to do some restoration work; The illegal acts of enterprises and projects within the jurisdiction shall be managed by fines, and the illegal enterprises shall be acquiesced or even connived in their barbaric operation and production, ignoring their damage to the ecological environment and dereliction of duty.
The inspector group will further investigate and verify the relevant situation and do the follow-up inspection work as required.
The problem of illegal construction of destructive mining in Fengshan World Geopark, Hechi City, Guangxi Province is outstanding.
In April, 2021, when inspecting Hechi City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the Seventh Central Eco-environmental Protection Inspector Group found that the protection of Fengshan World Geopark made way for project development, resulting in the illegal approval of national geological relics and some protected areas for mineral resources and real estate development. The problem is very prominent.
I. Basic information
Guangxi Fengshan Karst Geopark was approved as a national geological park by the former Ministry of Land and Resources in September 2005. October 2010 "Planning of Fengshan Karst National Geopark in Guangxi (2009— 2020) (hereinafter referred to as "Park Planning") was approved by the former Ministry of Land and Resources, with a total area of 132.6 square kilometers. The main scenic spots are Sanmen Sea Scenic Area, Chuanlong Rocks Scenic Area and Xianrenqiao Scenic Area. In October, 2010, UNESCO approved it as a world geological park, which is the only one in Guangxi at present. It has unique geological relic landscapes such as the world’s large stalagmite group, the world’s skylight group, the world’s highest underground cave canyon, the Tiansheng Bridge with the second span in China, and the eternal mystery Yuanyang Spring, which has high aesthetic value, scientific value and popular science value.
Second, the existing problems
(A) illegal mining, serious ecological damage
Liangli Quarry in Fengshan County is located in the third-class protection zone of Fengshan Karst Geopark. The Regulations on the Protection and Management of Geological Relics and the Park Planning clearly stipulate that quarrying and mining are prohibited in this area, but the relevant departments of Fengshan County ignored the protection regulations. In the process of transferring mining rights in this area, the former Fengshan County Tourism Bureau, as the competent department of Geopark, issued the opinion that "this plot does not belong to the scope of geological relics protection list" in October 2012. In October 2015, the former Fengshan County Land and Resources, In March 2018, Fengshan County People’s Government issued and implemented the Master Plan of Mineral Resources in Fengshan County (2016— 2020), continue to open the way for mineral development, and adjust the area where Liangli Quarry is located out of the geological park and plan it as an exploitable area. In November 2018, the company was not only able to renew its license, but the mining scale was expanded from 100,000 tons/year to 500,000 tons/year. On-the-spot inspection found that Liangli Quarry has been illegally mined for a long time, and the ecological damage is serious. The inspector group also found that due to poor supervision, marble was illegally mined at the Poxiongbao quarry in the first-class protected area near Yuanyang Cave, resulting in the excavation of the mountain and serious ecological damage.
(two) illegal development of real estate, geological and geomorphological damage.
The Fengshan County Party Committee and the county government ignored the requirements for the protection and management of the geopark, and carried out real estate development in the name of tourism development. They held several meetings to actively promote three real estate projects, including World Shouyuan City, Sanmenhai Shouyuan Sunshine and Fengshan Fengqi Taoyuan Ecological Wisdom Longevity and Health Care Base (hereinafter referred to as Fengqi Taoyuan), which were successively launched in the geopark protection area. Among them, Fengqi Taoyuan Project has also been declared as the second batch of major projects in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in 2020. The project plans to occupy an area of 13.3 hectares of secondary protected areas, and a Kangyang Consulting Center (2 floors) and a health-care apartment (6 floors) have been built, seriously damaging the national geological heritage site of Taohuayuan Depression in Neilong. In order to solve this problem, on March 31st, 2021, Fengshan county government held urgent consultations with the project unit, and arranged 120 million yuan of financial funds to return the land transfer fee (74 million yuan), the investment in the early stage of construction (20 million yuan) and the land appreciation estimate (26 million yuan) of the builder, and demolished related buildings. Illegal decision-making has caused financial losses at the county level, and the lesson is profound.
In addition, due to the lack of control, the indigenous residents in the first-class protected area on both sides of the entrance of the world-class ruins of Sanmen Sea Skylight Group developed tourism in disorder, and built many high-rise hotels and health halls, which was extremely out of harmony with the surrounding geological landscape and affected geological protection.
(3) Deliberately adjust the regulations to protect and make way for development.
Fengshan County People’s Government organized and published the Planning of Fengshan Karst National Geopark in Guangxi (2020— In 2030), most of the existing development projects in the planning were downgraded. Among them, the first-class protected area at Dongkou, a world-class relic of Sanmenhai Skylight Group, the third-class protected area where Sanmenhai World Shouyuan City and Sanmenhai Shouyuan Sunshine Real Estate Project are located, and the second-class protected area where Sanmenhai Shouyuan Health Tourism Holiday Project is located have been adjusted to residential areas; The second-class protected area where Fengqi Taoyuan Project is located and the third-class protected area where Liangli Quarry is located are adjusted to natural ecological areas; The first-class protected area involved in the original Poxiongbao illegal quarry was adjusted to a third-class protected area; The third-class protected areas involved in the second phase of Yuanyangquan mining area, a demonstration project of mine geological environment management, were adjusted to natural ecological areas. The plan also downgraded many former national and provincial geological heritage protection points to provincial, city and county geological heritage protection points under the condition of insufficient reasons and improper procedures, and reserved many plots for tourism service facilities that are incompatible with the landscape environment.
Third, the responsibility analysis
The Fengshan County Party Committee and the county government didn’t know enough, and the problems of chaos and inaction were prominent. They ignored the responsibility of protection, pushed forward the project construction in violation of regulations, and then blindly adjusted the planning in an attempt to make the illegal projects compliant. The Fengshan World Geopark Management Committee is lax in supervision and improper in performing its duties, and turns a blind eye to the long-standing illegal and illegal projects in the park reserve.
The inspector group will further investigate and verify the relevant situation and do the follow-up inspection work as required.
The environmental problem of domestic waste treatment plant in Jinghong City, Yunnan Province is that it is a pollution control facility but has become a "pollution source"
In April, 2021, the inspector of Xishuangbanna Prefecture, Yunnan Province, which was sunk by the Eighth Ecological Environmental Protection Inspector Group of the Central Committee, found that the operation and management of the municipal solid waste treatment plant in Jinghong City was extremely irregular, and the environmental violations were prominent. It was originally a pollution control facility, but it became a "pollution source".
I. Basic information
The municipal solid waste treatment plant in Jinghong City, Xishuangbanna Prefecture is located in Jiangbei Street, Jinghong City. It was completed and put into use in May 2004. The total designed landfill capacity is 4.5 million cubic meters, and the daily landfill capacity is 298 tons. It is equipped with leachate treatment facilities with a daily treatment capacity of 130 cubic meters. At present, the actual daily landfill volume is about 650 tons, and 4.2 million cubic meters of garbage has been landfilled. The treatment plant is managed and operated by Environmental Sanitation and Cleaning Co., Ltd. under Jinghong City Administration Bureau. On-site inspection found that the pollution control facilities of the treatment plant did not operate for a long time, and some landfill leachate was directly discharged, which caused serious environmental pollution and prominent risk hazards.
Second, the main problems
(A) pollution control facilities are in the same shape.
On-site access to the operating ledger of the leachate treatment station of Jinghong Municipal Waste Treatment Plant found that since 2018, the leachate treatment facility has been shut down for many times and for a long time. According to incomplete statistics, from 2018 to 2020, the outage was 231 days, 172 days and 160 days respectively. In addition, the online monitoring facility of leachate treatment station has been idle since it was installed in December 2019. Even in March 2021, when Xishuangbanna Ecological Environment Bureau found the problem and put it on file for investigation, the treatment station still went its own way without rectification. It was not until April 7, 2021, when the inspector group inspected the site, that the equipment side was entrusted to debug the equipment, and the online monitoring facilities were left idle for more than a year.
(B) Direct discharge of some leachate pollutes the environment.
According to statistics, the daily output of leachate in this treatment plant is about 150 cubic meters, while the actual treatment capacity of leachate treatment station is only 120 cubic meters/day, and the surplus can only be reinjected to the garbage dump. On January 25, 2021, the Southwest Supervision Bureau of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment found that part of the leachate in the treatment plant was directly discharged through the groundwater diversion canal under the impermeable membrane at the bottom of the landfill area, which seriously polluted the external environment. The results of on-site sampling and monitoring show that the COD concentration and ammonia nitrogen concentration of the leachate discharged are 5420 mg/L and 132 mg/L, respectively exceeding the Pollution Control Standard for Domestic Waste Landfills (GB16889— 2008) 53.2 times and 4.3 times of the limit in Table 2.
(3) The leachate in the site is "wantonly cross-flowing"
The treatment plant has never been dredged since it was built in 2004, and the diversion canal has been seriously silted and lost its function, resulting in some leachate not entering the regulation tank normally through the diversion canal and only overflowing from the top of the landfill area. On-site inspection found that the surface sewage in some areas of the site that have been closed, covered with plastic film and covered with soil "flows freely", forming secondary pollution.
(D) Environmental risks are prominent.
The leachate regulating tank of the treatment plant has a design volume of 35,000 cubic meters. Since 2019, leachate has been accumulated at a high level for a long time. On-site inspection found that about 30,000 cubic meters of untreated leachate had been accumulated. At the same time, there is no accident emergency pool in the treatment plant, and the leachate treatment facilities have insufficient treatment capacity and can’t operate normally for a long time. With the arrival of the rainy season, extreme weather such as continuous rainstorm is likely to overflow the external environment, and the potential environmental risks are very prominent.
Third, the reason analysis
Jinghong municipal government failed to promote the harmless disposal of domestic garbage. In 2018 and 2019, the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau of Jinghong City and the Urban Management Bureau respectively made written reports to the Jinghong Municipal Government on the outstanding environmental risks of leachate in the garbage disposal site, but the Jinghong Municipal Government paid insufficient attention to it, neither studied and deployed it, nor urged it to solve it, allowing various environmental problems in the garbage disposal site to persist. In view of the serious over-disposal of domestic waste in Jinghong City, which is close to full capacity, Jinghong Municipal Government has not strongly promoted the construction of waste incineration power generation project. The waste incineration power generation project planned to start in 2016 is still in the early stage of site leveling.
The inspector group will further investigate and verify the relevant situation and do the follow-up inspection work as required.
The pollution problem of Nanbaishi River in Qingxu County, Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province has not been fundamentally solved.
In April, 2021, the first ecological environmental protection inspector group of the Central Committee conducted on-site inspections in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province. Inspectors found that Qingxu County in Taiyuan City had low standards, weak measures and poor progress in pollution control in Nanbaishi River Basin. Some fundamental problems affecting river water quality have not been solved for a long time, and the goal of stably eliminating inferior V water bodies has not been achieved.
I. Basic information
In June, 2017, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader made an important instruction during his inspection in Shanxi that "we must attach great importance to the ecological environment protection of the Fenhe River, so as to make this mother river in Shanxi rich in water, good in water quality and beautiful in scenery". In September 2019, the General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized at the symposium on ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin that the pollution problems of tributaries such as the Fenhe River are outstanding, and the tributaries with serious pollution such as the Fenhe River should make great efforts to promote governance. The Shanxi Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government attached great importance to this and issued a series of document schemes to promote the solution of the problem of inferior V water bodies.
Nanbaishi River is a secondary tributary of Fenhe River and an important "capillary" of the Yellow River, and its water quality is inferior to Grade V for a long time. In April 2019, Shanxi Province was listed to supervise the serious pollution problem in Nanbaishi River Basin, and restricted the approval of wading projects in Qingxu County, and clearly required that the water quality of Nanbaishi River should meet the Class V standard in 2019 and 2020. Taiyuan also requires that the water quality of Nanbaishi River should be steadily withdrawn from the inferior V category in 2020.
Second, the main problems
(A) simple pollution control facilities, in order to meet the standards.
Qingxu County has not made great efforts in rain and sewage diversion, sewage interception and management, and improvement of treatment capacity. Instead, it has found shortcuts to cope with it and meet the standards for "reaching the standards". When the assessment time limit is approaching in late October 2020, the monitoring section — A simple treatment facility is built about 300 meters upstream of the Meijin Bridge section, and the river water is pumped into the facility, treated by adding sodium hypochlorite chemicals and discharged into the river. The environmental quality report of surface water in Shanxi Province shows that the average annual water quality of Meijinqiao section in 2020 meets the requirements of class V assessment. The inspector found that the treatment facility has no biochemical section, and it only relies on chemical addition to remove ammonia nitrogen, and it is purely manual, without accurate measurement and effective control. It is extremely unstable and seems to be "medicine stops the disease", but in fact it is "medicine stops the disease". The data from automatic water quality monitoring stations with higher monitoring frequency show that from July 2020 to March 2021, more than 30% of the days have higher ammonia nitrogen concentration, and the water bodies become worse than Grade V.. On the eve of the inspector’s arrival, Qingxu County began to dismantle the simple facility and rebuild it to the upstream, but the process did not change. In addition, sodium hypochlorite is a strong oxidant, which will lead to the increase of pH value of river water and bring negative impact on water ecology.
(B) the sewage treatment capacity is insufficient, and the river interception is ineffective.
The pollution of Nanbaishi River mainly comes from the domestic sewage from nearly ten villages in the upstream and farmland backwater mixed with Donghu backwater channel and Jiudou backwater channel. In 2017, Qingxu County started to build a sewage treatment plant with a treatment scale of 10,000 tons/day, but adopted the method of "intercepting the river and intercepting the pollution", and set up a dam in the backwater channel, and planned to intercept all rainwater and sewage in the channel for post-treatment. At present, the amount of rainwater and sewage in the two return canals sometimes reaches 15,000 cubic meters per day, and the amount of water is even greater in the rainstorm season, so the sewage treatment capacity seems to be "inadequate". In addition, "blocking the river and intercepting the sewage" has caused problems such as low influent concentration and inefficient operation of sewage treatment plants.
The inspector found that the sewage from the East Lake backwater channel was pumped into the sewage treatment plant by the water pump at the dam. Because the sewage treatment plant has been running at full capacity, only about 1,500 cubic meters can be pumped every day, and a large amount of sewage has crossed the dam and entered the river downstream. The ammonia nitrogen concentration in the water body has been as high as 30 mg/L for a long time. The sewage from Jiudou backwater channel flows into the sewage treatment plant by itself at the dam. Due to the inability to collect and digest it in time, the river water crosses the dam. Although an earth dam is temporarily built downstream, the sewage in the dam still enters the river in rainy days.
(3) The progress of sewage interception and acceptance is slow, and the pipe network project is perfunctory.
The main reason for the pollution of Donghu backwater and Jiudou backwater is that the domestic sewage in villages and towns along the upstream is not collected and merged with rainwater. The inspector found that the sewage interception and management project implemented in Qingxu County was perfunctory and did not play its due role. At the end of 2019, Qingxu County implemented the rainwater and sewage diversion pipeline laying project of Jiudou Backwater Canal, only designed and built the main network, but not the supporting branch pipes for collecting sewage. The rainwater and sewage still merged in the pipe network, which did not solve the problems of large inflow and low concentration that plagued the sewage treatment plant. Because the combined water volume is too large and the pipeline transportation capacity is insufficient, many overflow ports along the line discharge sewage into Jiudou backwater channel. Up to now, the sewage interception and pipe collection project in the upstream village of East Lake backwater channel has not been built, and two backwater channels have formed a sewage belt several kilometers long in Qingxu County.
(D) River regulation is weak, and environmental impact exists for a long time.
Sediment pollution is also an important cause of water pollution in Donghu backwater and Jiudou backwater. In the past, there have been a large number of heavily polluting enterprises such as chemical industry around Nanbaishi River, Donghu Reclamation Canal and Jiudou Reclamation Canal. The illegal discharge and direct discharge of sewage have led to the accumulation of a large number of pollutants in river sediment. Although the relevant enterprises have been shut down, the impact of sediment pollution has always existed. At the same time, a large number of solid wastes such as coal gangue are buried around the canal, which also has a certain impact on water quality.
In 2019, when Shanxi Province supervised the listing of Nanbaishi River, it explicitly requested that garbage cleaning and sediment dredging should be carried out around Jiudou backwater canal and Donghu backwater canal, and coal gangue, fly ash and industrial waste residue in Qingxu fine chemical recycling industrial park should be thoroughly cleaned up to eliminate the impact of leachate such as solid waste on the water environment. The inspector found that Qingxu County did not pay attention to the river regulation and the reconstruction of the backwater channel, but only dredged and dredged some rivers in the backwater channel of East Lake, and the polluted sediment was never removed. The Jiudou backwater channel only completed part of the dredging work, and the industrial solid waste buried around it was not completely cleaned up. According to the sampling monitoring of Shanxi Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment in October, 2020, the concentrations of ammonia nitrogen in the sediment of Donghu Reclamation Canal, Jiudou Reclamation Canal and Nanbaishi River were 189.5 mg/kg, 273 mg/kg and 403.5 mg/kg respectively.
Third, the reason analysis
The local Party committee and government are not determined to implement the decision-making and deployment of the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government on Fenhe River basin management, and the sense of mission and responsibility for defending the clear water is not strong, and the overall pattern of ecological and environmental protection is still not perfect. After repeatedly pointing out the problems in Shanxi Province and Taiyuan City, they have been perfunctory and delayed for a long time, and the related problems affecting the pollution of Nanbaishi River have not been fundamentally solved, and the water environment has not been substantially improved.
The inspector group will further investigate and verify the relevant situation and do the follow-up inspection work as required.
The main responsibility of the management Committee of Shenyang Economic and Technological Development Zone in Liaoning Province is not fully implemented, and the regional ecological and environmental problems are outstanding.
In April, 2021, the Second Central Eco-environmental Protection Inspector Group conducted on-site inspection on Shenyang Economic and Technological Development Zone. The inspector found that the main responsibility of the Management Committee of Shenyang Economic and Technological Development Zone was not implemented in place, and the regional ecological and environmental problems were outstanding, which was strongly reflected by the masses.
I. Basic information
Established in June 1988, Shenyang Economic and Technological Development Zone was approved by the State Council in 1993 and became a national economic and technological development zone, which is the core area of industrial development in Shenyang. Shenyang Chemical Industrial Park (hereinafter referred to as the Park) was established in September 2005, and it is affiliated to Shenyang Economic and Technological Development Zone, with a planned total area of 30 square kilometers. In November 2015, the environmental impact report of the overall development plan of the park passed the examination of the ecological environment department. There are more than 80 enterprises in the park, such as medicine, fine chemicals and new chemical materials, with an output value of 12.5 billion yuan in 2019. A centralized sewage treatment plant with a design capacity of 10,000 tons/day is built in the park, which is used to collect and treat the production wastewater of enterprises in the park. The effluent is further treated by Shenyang Zhenxing Sewage Treatment Co., Ltd. and then discharged into Xihe, a tributary of Hunhe River.
Second, the main problems
(A) the emphasis on development, light protection, planning environmental impact assessment requirements have not been implemented.
The Master Development Plan of Shenyang Chemical Industrial Park (Revised) clearly states that the park will build an innovative green chemical industrial park under the guidance of the concept of circular economy and eco-industry. The inspector found that many environmental protection measures clearly required by the overall development plan and environmental impact assessment documents of the park have not been implemented. Since 2016, the average daily sewage discharged by enterprises in the park has reached 17,000 tons, with a peak of 30,000 tons, which has far exceeded the acceptance capacity of the sewage treatment plant. A large amount of sewage has been discharged without treatment, but the management committee of Shenyang Economic and Technological Development Zone has not expanded the sewage treatment plant. According to the Environmental Impact Tracking Assessment Report of the Overall Development Plan of Shenyang Chemical Industrial Park compiled in October 2020, the 36,000 cubic meters accident pool that should be built according to the three-level environmental risk prevention and control requirements of the chemical industrial park has not been built. With the development of the park, chemical enterprises are constantly moving in, and environmental risks are increasingly prominent. At the same time, the municipal centralized water supply has covered the park, but the relevant departments still illegally approved the self-prepared wells for 10 enterprises, with an annual water intake of 850,000 tons.
(B) environmental supervision dereliction of duty, corporate illegal sewage problem is prominent.
The first round of central eco-environmental protection inspectors pointed out that 30,000 tons of industrial wastewater in the park were seriously discharged beyond the standard every day. At the end of 2018, Shenyang Economic and Technological Development Zone completed the construction of pipe network, and Shenyang Zhenxing Sewage Treatment Co., Ltd. was officially put into operation, but the solution of related problems was still not in place. The inspector found that the management committee of Shenyang Economic and Technological Development Zone and relevant departments have been inactive for a long time, and environmental supervision has been dereliction of duty. Some enterprises in the park illegally discharged untreated high-concentration waste liquid and wastewater into the sewage pipe network, which is a serious problem. The on-line monitoring data of water inflow of Shenyang Zhenxing Sewage Treatment Co., Ltd. shows that after the domestic sewage transported from Lanjun Road Pumping Station flows through the park, the influent concentration increases obviously, exceeding the design standard of sewage treatment plant for a long time. In 2020, the days when the concentration of influent chemical oxygen demand, ammonia nitrogen, total phosphorus and total nitrogen exceeds the design index are 141 days, 140 days, 334 days and 332 days respectively, and the maximum concentration of chemical oxygen demand is 5000 mg/L; On January 3, 2021, the concentration of chemical oxygen demand continued to be about 3000 mg/L throughout the day, and obviously a large amount of sewage or production waste liquid exceeded the standard was directly discharged into the pipe network. In recent years, Shenyang Zhenxing Sewage Treatment Co., Ltd. has continuously reported the problem that the water inflow index has exceeded the standard for a long time to the management committee of Shenyang Economic and Technological Development Zone and relevant departments, but the management committee and relevant departments ignored it and acquiesced in conniving at the long-term illegal sewage discharge by enterprises. In March 2021, the Northeast Supervision Bureau of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment discovered to the inspectors of the park that a large amount of dark chemical wastewater gushed out from a sewage well in Xihe Eleventh North Street, and the sampling and monitoring of sewage in some sewage pipe networks in the park showed that,The maximum concentration of chemical oxygen demand is 19,700 mg/L, and the maximum concentration of ammonia nitrogen is 948 mg/L, which is more than 60 times and 30 times higher than the prescribed discharge concentration respectively.
(3) The prevention and control of air pollution is ineffective, and the masses have reacted strongly.
The main responsibility of the Management Committee of Shenyang Economic and Technological Development Zone is not implemented in place, and the regional ambient air quality continues to deteriorate. Since 2018, the concentrations of PM2.5, PM10, NO2 and O3 at the national and provincial control points in the development zone have been rising continuously. In 2020, among the 21 areas with heavy air pollution identified by Liaoning Province, only the concentration of PM2.5 in Shenyang Economic and Technological Development Zone increased year-on-year. In August, 2020, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment made a spot check and found that some key VOCs-related pollutant discharge units in the development zone had serious problems such as excessive discharge of process tail gas, direct discharge of factory tail gas, abnormal operation of waste gas treatment facilities in sewage treatment plants, and obvious on-site odor. During the first round of central eco-environmental protection inspectors and "looking back" in 2017, a large number of people complained about the problem of odor disturbing people in Shenyang Economic and Technological Development Zone. Since the inspector was stationed, he has received 11 complaints and reports about environmental pollution in the development zone. On-site inspectors found that the odor in many areas of the park was pungent, and the problem of unorganized discharge was still outstanding.
Third, the reason analysis
The management committee of Shenyang Economic and Technological Development Zone is not in place to implement the main responsibility of ecological environmental protection, paying attention to economic development and neglecting ecological environmental protection, with obvious deterioration of ambient air quality and outstanding ecological environmental problems; The relevant departments failed in their environmental supervision, and some enterprises in the region illegally discharged pollutants for a long time, which was strongly reflected by the masses.
The inspector group will further investigate and verify the relevant situation and do the follow-up inspection work as required.
The inspector’s rectification is not strict, and the problem of local ecological damage in Taiping Lake Basin of Huangshan City, Anhui Province is still outstanding.
The first round of central eco-environmental protection inspectors pointed out that illegal construction of real estate and other projects in Taiping Lake Scenic Area in Anhui Province required Anhui Province to study and formulate rectification plans. In April, 2021, during the inspection in Anhui Province, the Third Central Ecological Environmental Protection Inspector Group paid special attention to the rectification of related issues. Inspectors found that the rectification work of illegal development projects in Taiping Lake Basin was not promoted effectively, and the problem of local ecological damage was still outstanding.
I. Basic information
Taiping Lake is located in huangshan district, Huangshan City. Because of its highly protective landscape resources and lake wetland resources, it has been approved by the Anhui Provincial People’s Government and the former State Forestry Administration as a provincial-level scenic spot and a national wetland park. It is the first national wetland park in Anhui Province.
Before 2017, the coast of Taiping Lake was over-exploited for a long time, and a large number of real estate, hotels and tourist resorts continued to start construction. The natural coastline of the lake was occupied, and the landscape and wetland resources were destroyed. Some projects were still illegally launched after the master plan of scenic spots and the master plan of national wetland park were approved, and even some projects occupied the waters of Taiping Lake and were built directly on the lake. In view of the problems pointed out by the first round of central eco-environmental protection inspectors, the rectification plan of Anhui Provincial Party Committee and provincial government is clear, in strict accordance with the "Master Plan of Taiping Lake Scenic Area (2015— 2030), comprehensively clean up the projects within the planning red line (within the control range of 30 meters along the lakeshore), and formulate strict, clear and feasible rectification measures and rectification time limit.
Second, the main problems
(1) The inspector’s rectification work is discounted
Inspectors found that Huangshan City has formulated a specific rectification plan, but huangshan district did not conduct a comprehensive investigation and clean-up of the projects within the planning red line, and discounted the requirements for rectification. Only five projects were rectified, and the other six projects within the planning red line were not included in the rectification scope. After provincial inspectors further pointed out relevant problems in 2019, huangshan district remained indifferent. Up to now, there has been no substantial progress in the rectification of the other six projects. Only after the inspector was stationed in huangshan district, did the investigation, and it was found that there were 30 illegal projects in the wetland area (covering the planning red line of scenic spots), involving a construction area of 635,000 square meters.
(B) rectification of the sales number is not strict.
Anxious to get rid of the "burden", the huangshan district Municipal Government applied for cancellation of this issue many times without comprehensive and serious investigation and thorough rectification. In April, 2018, huangshan district submitted a request for reimbursement number to Huangshan Municipal Government for "five illegal construction projects have been rectified", and the municipal government immediately submitted a request for sales number to Anhui Housing and Urban-Rural Development Department. The Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development did not strictly implement the requirements of "comprehensively cleaning up the projects within the red line of the planning" in the provincial rectification plan, that is, the reply thought that "the rectification basically meets the requirements of the rectification plan, and can apply for the cancellation number to the office of the provincial leading group for rectification work according to the prescribed channels". In July 2018, when the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development organized an on-site review of the rectification of illegal construction projects in Taiping Lake, although it paid attention to the illegal real estate projects that were mainly rectified, it did not carefully verify the projects within 30 meters of the coastline according to the requirements of "comprehensive clean-up". It only put forward the requirements of "supplementing the rectification implementation plan and refining the rectification measures" for the five rectification projects reported by huangshan district, and in October of the same year, it replied to the office of the provincial rectification leading group, and passed the acceptance of the rectification task.
In March 2019, the management function of scenic spots was transferred from the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development to the Provincial Forestry Bureau. In August of the same year, huangshan district applied for reimbursement number again after supplementing and perfecting relevant materials, and the Huangshan Municipal Government applied for acceptance and cancellation number in November. Although the Provincial Forestry Bureau asked Huangshan City to comprehensively investigate and clean up the projects within the planning scope, it did not go deep into the field to seriously verify them. After the provincial inspector pointed out that "there are still 11 projects in the Taiping Lake Scenic Area that are partially built within 30 meters of the coastline", it still did not ask the local authorities to include other projects in the category of "comprehensive cleaning up". After on-the-spot inspection of the five projects reported by huangshan district in June 2020, it wrote back in November of the same year for acceptance and cancellation.
(3) The implementation of soil and water conservation measures for forest-related transformation projects is not in place.
The forest ecosystem around Taiping Lake plays a key role in water conservation in the basin and has a positive impact on maintaining a good water ecology in the Yangtze River. In recent years, huangshan district has successively implemented economic forest reconstruction projects in Taiping Lake Basin. These reconstruction projects are based on people’s livelihood, which is a good thing. However, on-site inspection of 10 economic forest reconstruction projects in Taiping Lake Basin (involving an area of about 2,300 mu) by the inspector group found that six projects were not up to standard in the process of reconstruction, and soil and water conservation measures were not implemented in accordance with the requirements of the Regulations on the Protection and Management of Woodland in Anhui Province, which has caused soil erosion and landslides in some areas. In addition, a large number of fertilizers and pesticides are used in some economic forests, which has adverse effects on the water ecological environment in Taiping Lake Basin.
Third, the reason analysis
The Huangshan District Party Committee and the district government did not really shoulder the political responsibility of protecting the ecological environment, and they did not dare to touch the real thing and be superficial in promoting the rectification of illegal and illegal projects in Taiping Lake. The Huangshan Municipal Government and relevant departments are not strict in the control and supervision, and there is dereliction of duty in the supervision and rectification work. The relevant departments of Anhui Province did not seriously review the rectification and acceptance work according to the law, and the sales number became a mere formality.
The inspector group will further investigate and verify the relevant situation and do the follow-up inspection work as required.
In Xinyu City, Jiangxi Province, illegal mining activities are chaotic and ecological restoration is seriously lagging behind.
In April, 2021, the inspector of the Fourth Central Ecological Environmental Protection Inspector Group in Jiangxi Province found that the illegal activities of open-pit mining in Xinyu City were chaotic, the creation of green mines was lax and untrue, the inspector’s rectification was perfunctory, the ecological restoration work was lagging behind, and the environmental pollution in the nearby area was serious, which was strongly reflected by the masses.
I. Basic information
In 2018, the first round of central eco-environmental protection inspectors "looked back" and pointed out that some local stone mines in Jiangxi Province did not carry out soil and water conservation and ecological restoration work, and did not control dust pollution in the stone industry from the source.
Jiangxi inspector’s rectification plan requires that similar problems in this region be comprehensively investigated by analogy with the common problems of mine ecological restoration and governance pointed out by the inspector, and it is clear that the provincial department of natural resources will organize special actions for mine development and remediation. Xinyu city inspector’s rectification plan requires that mine ecological restoration and management be carried out, the rectification of central ecological environmental protection inspectors be promoted, and efforts should be made to solve outstanding environmental problems reflected by the people.
Second, the main problems
(A) the illegal acts are chaotic.
According to the requirements of the inspector’s rectification plan, in 2018, the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Natural Resources organized a special campaign for mine development and rectification, and conducted a thorough investigation of open-pit mines in the province. The investigation found that there were 111 illegal and illegal problems in the mining of 62 open-pit mines in Xinyu City, including 14 mines crossing the border, 7 mines illegally occupying forest land, 4 mines encroaching on the red line of ecological protection, 21 mines with expired mining licenses, and 15 mines not only failed to carry out governance, but also failed to prepare the mine geological environment protection and governance recovery plan as required.
In 2020, Xinyu reported to the Provincial Department of Natural Resources that all 111 problems had been rectified. The inspector group spot-checked 10 mines and found that all of them had problems that had not been rectified. Sheng ‘an Industry & Trade Co., Ltd. failed to implement the principle of ecological restoration of open-pit mines, which was "mining while managing". The mining area was only mined without managing, and waste rocks were dumped along the mountain, destroying a large number of vegetation. The dust control measures of Maoheng Mining Co., Ltd. are not perfect, the material conveying belt is not sealed, and the dust pollution is serious. The closed facilities in the crushing workshop of Changxing Mining Co., Ltd. were damaged, and there was no spraying and dust reduction measures for the blanking device and the material yard.
(B) the creation of green mines is lax and untrue
In 2017, the former Ministry of Land and Resources and other six ministries and commissions issued the "Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of Green Mines", demanding to improve the quality and efficiency of mining development, accelerate the construction process of green mines, and strive to form a new mining development model that meets the requirements of ecological civilization construction by 2020. The Work Plan of Special Action for Mine Development and Renovation in Jiangxi Province requires that by the end of 2020, 200 old mines should reach the standard of green mine construction.
A total of 12 mines in Xinyu passed the acceptance of green mine creation. The inspector group spot-checked two green mines that have passed the acceptance of the Municipal Bureau of Natural Resources, and found that the creation work was lax and untrue, and the acceptance was fraudulent. Keypit Quarry violated the laws and regulations on natural resources and ecological environment protection, and added a new stone processing line without authorization. The road gravel was scattered and accumulated thick dust, and the automatic dust monitoring equipment was damaged and stopped for a long time. The material yard had no "three prevention" measures, but it got full marks in the acceptance assessment of green mines. Jiangxi Junyi Mining Co., Ltd. lime powder conveyor belt is not closed, the dust in the material loading and unloading workshop is unorganized, and thick dust and dirt are accumulated on the walls and ceiling of the workshop, which is not "green" and "gray" is obvious.
(3) The inspector’s rectification goes through the motions
In 2018, during the "Looking Back" period of the Central Ecological Environmental Protection Inspector, a total of 75 reports were received from the people in Xinyu City, of which 17 were related to mining and mineral products processing enterprises, accounting for more than 20%. The masses complained about dust pollution and ecological damage from such enterprises. The inspector randomly selected three questions and found that the rectification was not in place.
The problems of dust pollution and waste gas direct discharge in lime kiln of Yingge mining industry in Fenyi county reflected by the masses. On-site inspectors found that the enterprise basically did not carry out rectification, there was no dust collection facility in the stone crushing process, and the dust pollution was serious. A large number of industrial waste residues were randomly piled up in the open space of the factory area without any "three prevention" measures.
The problem of dust pollution of ceramic raw material processing factory near Nantang Village Committee of Gushan Township in Yushui District reflected by the masses. On-site inspectors found that the production mode of Shengwang Mining Company in this area is still extensive, and dust is accumulated everywhere in the factory area. A lot of dust from mining and mineral products processing pollutes the environment, surrounding roads are damaged, and truck transportation is dusty. Xinglin quarry has no dust pollution control facilities, and the milky white wastewater is discharged directly, which seriously affects the normal production and life of surrounding villagers.
(D) Ecological restoration is seriously lagging behind.
In 2019, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of Ecology and Environment jointly issued the "Letter on Implementing Opinions on Accelerating the Comprehensive Improvement of Open-pit Mines", clearly requiring all localities to carry out comprehensive improvement of open-pit mines according to law, and strengthen the ecological restoration of open-pit mines in accordance with the principle of "who mines, who governs, while mining and governs", and ensure the smooth completion of the rectification work in 2020.
In recent years, Xinyu City has closed 55 mines, but only 9 have carried out ecological restoration. On-site spot check of Rongchun Quarry, which has passed the acceptance of Fenyi County Natural Resources Bureau, found that the ecological restoration was discounted and the acceptance work went through the motions. The mining platform is basically uncovered and green, and the vertical mining face has not been repaired by hanging nets on the slope; The mining pit area is not covered with soil and planted as required, and the ecological restoration of the surrounding area of the mining pit is not green, and the effect is extremely poor.
Third, the reason analysis
Xinyu Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have not paid enough attention to the comprehensive improvement of open pit mines, and the supervision is weak, and the comprehensive improvement work is obviously lagging behind; Turn a blind eye to the problem of illegal mining of mines within its jurisdiction, and lack of supervision, resulting in serious damage to the ecological environment; Insufficient attention is paid to the ecological restoration of closed mines, and the creation of green mines is perfunctory, lax and untrue. The governments of Yushui District and Fenyi County are perfunctory about the rectification requirements of the central eco-environmental protection inspector, and ignore the eco-environmental problems around the masses, and the formalism problem is outstanding.
The inspector group will further investigate and verify the relevant situation and do the follow-up inspection work as required.
