Pollution Source Of Xinji Leather Industry Exposed

　　“ Xinji In addition to the leather factory is the source of pollution, there are chemical plants, dyeing houses. The water pollution of dyeing workshop is more serious. Many people in the old village have psoriasis. In addition, there are many small black heart cotton workshops. I seriously suspect that groundwater has been contaminated. " On February 22, 2013, villagers from the trial artillery camp in Xinji City, Hebei Province reported to reporters.

Direct discharge of sewage has a long history

The reporter drove from Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei Province, to Xinji. Driver Liu Shifu told reporters before leaving, "take more bottles of mineral water, but the local water can't be drunk." Master Liu told reporters that Xinji water pollution has been for years, "at least six or seven years, all caused by local leather enterprises."

Relevant information shows that Xinji leather industry has a long history, which started in the Ming Dynasty and flourished in the Qing Dynasty. It is known as "Xinji leather is the best in the world". It is the largest fur distribution center and important commercial port in Chinese history. Since the reform and opening up, the traditional advantages of Xinji leather industry have developed rapidly, and become the biggest characteristic pillar industry of Xinji.

With the construction and prosperity of leather business city [0.83% capital research report], Xinji leather industry has been developing rapidly. According to relevant data, there are thousands of leather enterprises in Xinji City, which are distributed in 18 towns and more than 20 specialized villages. However, these tannery enterprises have small scale, scattered production, simple equipment, poor and unstable product quality, and low technology content, leading to the leather pollution can not be effectively controlled.

Master Liu told reporters that as early as four or five years ago, the well water from some local villages was obviously yellow and could not be directly drunk. It had to be kept for more than half a day.

In the afternoon, when the reporter came to Xinji's paoying village, he found that black tannery sewage flowed in the roadside ditch, and bubbles and hot gas were bubbling on the water surface, which smelled strongly. Master Liu told reporters: "beside the river is a leather processing enterprise, where the drainage pipe can directly discharge sewage into the river, and the whole river is blocked by sewage and pollutants all year round. The smell is unbearable to passers-by. "

A villager in shipaoying village told the reporter that most leather enterprises near the village secretly discharged pollutants when no one was around at night. The smell was so bad that sometimes they didn't even dare to open the windows“ We have reflected for many times that some people from the above came to inspect, and they were just walking through the motions, and very few enterprises were shut down for this reason. " On both sides of the street, there are factories mainly engaged in leather, leather goods and fur collar, and the sewage outlets of these factories are all directly discharged into the ditches beside the streets.

Walking along the ditch, you will soon see the water in the ditch converging into a small river, and the water in the river can no longer be distinguished as green, blue or yellow. On the other side of the stinky River, a restaurant called "Jinyuan wedding banquet hall" is still open.

Some villagers told reporters that he made statistics: "in recent years, many old people in the village died of cancer. When the leather factory was not built, few people got it."“ The rich people in the village have long stopped drinking local water and have bought bottled mineral water; If you have some money, install a water purifier at home; If you don't have money, you'll drink the water you picked from your own house, regardless of whether it's polluted or not. " Villagers said.

Sewage treatment plant becomes "decoration"

"Many of the enterprises in the trial camp are small leather processing plants. During the peak season of production, the sewers simply can't hold so much sewage, so they all flow into the street, full of stinky water in the street." Some residents said.

Reporters asked whether these factories have sewage treatment equipment, "are small private processing plants, which has what sewage treatment equipment. Generally speaking, enterprises are drilling wells in their own factories, and one enterprise is drilling five or six wells. Among them, one is a daily drinking water well, two or three are industrial water wells, one or two are sewage wells; The depth is 300 meters and 200 meters respectively. 300 meters is used as drinking water, and 200 meters is industrial water. " Another resident said: "due to the recent news of illegal emission inspection, enterprises are very vigilant. The wells are covered, but the production sewage in the daytime is stored in our own sewage pool and sewer. At about 8 o'clock in the evening, it starts to discharge out, and at 4:5 o'clock in the morning, it will be blocked with sandbags. "

Several residents took reporters to a sewage collection place a few miles away: the sewage was rolling like ink, and workers were shoveling sewage on the ground at the sewage outlet. At the end of the road, the sewage treatment plant stood.

The reporter took water samples from the waste water channel at the gate of the trial artillery camp sewage treatment plant. According to the detection of relevant departments, the COD in these wastewater is as high as 1790, which is far higher than the COD standard value of class V water quality of 40.

A citizen nearby said that this is it sewage disposal Sewage from the factory“ It's good that the sewage treatment plant can handle half of the sewage. The number of leather enterprises is increasing. How can they keep up with the speed of pollution? The production capacity is far greater than the treatment capacity. "

According to the relevant data, in the construction process of tanning area, Xinji city built three sewage treatment plants and two peak shaving sewage treatment plants respectively in 1997, 2000, 2005 and 2007, with a total investment of 68 million yuan and a sewage treatment capacity of 45000 tons / day. At the same time, in 2000, an investment of 138 million yuan was made to build an urban sewage treatment plant with a daily sewage treatment capacity of 100000 tons in the tanning area. But the reality does not seem optimistic.

Insiders told reporters that the reason why they would say one thing and do another is mainly because the cost of sewage treatment plant is very high“ Generally, it is checked by someone before operation; No one checks. The sewage treatment plant is just a decoration. "

What is the cost of sewage treatment? Zhao Jun, Ph.D. of the ecological environment research center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told reporters that the cost of sewage treatment varies from a few yuan per ton to dozens of yuan per ton“ It mainly depends on what kind of pollutants are. The cheap one is two or three yuan per ton, and the expensive one is dozens of yuan per ton. The amount of sewage discharged by different factories is also quite different. Small factories discharge tens to hundreds of tons a day, while large factories discharge thousands of tons. "

In addition, "normal sewage treatment costs are generated every day, electricity and labor costs should be considered, and direct discharge is the most cost-effective way for enterprises." Zhao Jun said. According to the cheapest treatment cost of two or three yuan per ton and 100 tons per day, the treatment cost will be nearly 100000 yuan in a year“ This is not a small expenditure for the private leather processing enterprises. " Zhao Jun said, "the water level in the north is relatively low. If they dig a dry well, the sewage will flow to the underground. Why should we treat it?"

It is understood that Xinji produces more than 50000 tons of sewage every day, which flows into large earth pits and small ditches nearby, or flows eastward in three ways. Farmers depend on the sewage to irrigate their fields and grow crops“ Take a look at these wheat. They are yellow. This is what they are burning with sewage. Even the land is alkalized. It turns out that this is a thick sticky land Villagers told reporters, "we have no wells in this village. All of them are irrigated with water from enterprises. There are sulfuric acid and caustic soda in these tannery water. When the wheat seedlings are young, they can't be watered with this water. They can't die from drought, but they will burn when they are irrigated with this water. "

" _the_wheat_we_produce_here_is_not_needed_by_the_flour_mill_ , _nor_are_vegetables_grown_in_the_field_ . _no_one_dares_to_eat_it_when_it_is_watered_with_this_water_ . "_ Villagers said.

According to the reporter's investigation, leather waste water from Xinji leather city flows along the small canal beside Hengjing road to Hengshui. At the junction of Shijiazhuang and Hengshui, the leather wastewater flows into shaocun ditch parallel to the main drainage canal of Junqi, flows into Jizhou, and then discharges all the way to Jima canal. And then release it to Jizhou county.

Local residents also reported that the continuous flow of sewage from the tannery industrial zone has affected Tianjin, Jixian and Hengshui Lake. The government and residents of these areas have already negotiated with the Xinji municipal government on this matter.

During Xinji, the reporter went to the environmental protection bureau to interview, but failed to see the relevant person in charge, and the telephone number of Xinji Environmental Protection Bureau has been unable to dial