Xiaoxian, Anhui, A Leather Factory Suspected To Be Contaminated By Underground Water By Villagers Containment (Map)

Wafangcun is located at the foot of Tianmen temple, a famous scenic spot in the country. There are about more than 200 people living there in about 900 people.

Yesterday, the Xin'an evening news and Anhui network reporter came to the home of Lee Soo Young and Huang Qi Zhou of wafangcun village. The two wells were polluted most seriously.

Reporters at the scene of the field water found that the pressure of the two households' wells pressure water is really muddy and odorous, and the turbidity of the water is getting higher and higher.

However, Huang Qi Zhou told reporters that this is not the worst water quality, compared with the water quality that just discovered in early August, the water quality in recent days is much better. "At that time, it was pungent, but it is not so heavy now."

Subsequently, reporters and village cadres Duan Shishan and Wang Yong came to Lee Soo Young's old man.

Reporters next to see that the water pressure of this well is dark, and it is getting more and more cloudy. It can smell smell, but it has not been pungent.

Because Lee Soo Young and Huang Qi Zhou are closer to the source of pollution that the villagers suspect, de Hao synthetic leather Co., Ltd., and the water quality of villagers from a far distance is better, so the villagers insist that the problem is caused by the sewage discharged from the leather factory.

"We do not have any culture, nor do we know science and technology. Although it is suspected that the pollution brought about by the production of tanneries, we have not found evidence, nor can we be sure."

A villager said.

But when it comes to changes in the water quality in the village, Wang Yong speaks of his personal experience.

"We used to have beautiful mountains and rivers, all of which are mountain spring water, which can catch fish in the river every rainy season, but now the water quality of the river has obviously deteriorated."

Wang Yong said, not only that, when the leather factory is produced, there is a foul smell everywhere.

In August 4th, some villagers reported that there was a problem of water quality. The environmental monitoring staff came to villagers Lee Soo Young, Huang Qi Zhou and Gao Yanjun's family for several times, and sampled water samples for testing.

The Environmental Protection Bureau of Xiaoxian does not fully agree with the statement that the content of well water carcinogens is over 40 times over the Internet.

Yesterday, Du Shangfei, director of the Environmental Protection Bureau of the Xiaoxian Environmental Protection Bureau, introduced 4 samples from the same place (villagers' homes) in different periods since August 6th. They were tested at the local and Suzhou, Huaibei and provincial environmental protection offices respectively.

The earliest sampling was sent to Suzhou, and the most serious one was exceeding the standard. The nitrate nitrogen reached 0.892 mg / ml. According to the "groundwater environmental quality standard", the class III water quality should be "less than 0.02 mg / ml" standard, indeed exceeding the standard 40 times.

However, they were sent to Huaibei and provincial environmental protection offices and samples of the EPA in Xiaoxian, and the results were all below or even far below the value.

Du director said that the environmental protection department of Xiaoxian also extracted samples from the leather factory near Lee Soo Young's house and sent it to the Anhui Environmental Inspection Center for testing. The results showed that the content of DMF in the samples (the characteristic pollutants in the tannery effluent) was in the normal range.

Yang Xinhua, the former deputy station master of Suzhou environmental monitoring station, has gone through retirement procedures in June this year.

Yesterday morning, as an expert invited by Xiaoxian, he told reporters that there were two reference standards for judging whether the nitrite nitrogen content exceeded the standard. One was in 1993, the other was in 2006, the first one was the III type water quality detection standard for groundwater, the second was for drinking and domestic water. "According to the 1993 standard, it is over standard, according to the 2006 standard."

If there is no pollution, how can we explain the peculiar smell and turbidity in the villagers' well water? No clear reply has been given to all the local departments in Xiaoxian.

Whether it pollutes the groundwater? In the interview, the head of the environmental protection agency of the Xiaoxian economic development zone and the Publicity Office of the Propaganda Department of the Xiaoxian county Party committee, the head of the propaganda office, said: "there is no relationship with the tannery."

However, departments were reluctant to ask whether they could produce written materials to prove that the leather factory was "clean".

In any case, the smell and turbidity of well water in Villagers' homes is a fact. If it is not a leather factory, is there any other source of pollution?

"There is a small ditch at the door of Lee Soo Young's house. It is very close to the water well of her home, and the pressure well in Lee Soo Young's house is not deep. It may be the surface pollution, and the related components are permeated, which leads to the change of water quality."

Xiaoxian county Party Committee Propaganda Department propaganda office Li director speculated.

The authorities in Xiaoxian say that Lee Soo Young's old well is only ten meters deep, but this is denied by the old man.

Told reporters that two wells in their own, the new well hit more than thirty meters deep, but who knows is not as shallow as the old well.

As for the problem of surface water pollution, Lee Soo Young pointed out the river at the door. He used to be clear water, and now the color is black, and he has a pungent smell, what is the source of pollution, and there is no local opinion.

Response: first issued barreled water, and then tap water at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the reporter came to the village cadre Wang Yong's home, and saw dozens of barrels of pure water outside the yard.

"This is Chao Yue Ling, a livestock farm in our village. She is here to move water."

Wang Yong told reporters that every day villagers came here to collect barreled purified water.

Yang Nianzhi, mayor of Xiaoxian's white soil Town, told reporters that since the villagers had reflected the problem of water quality, the town government provided the villagers with the purified water as drinking water, 18.9 litres per barrel and more than 200 barrels of purified water every day.

So long term consumption of purified water is not a solution. How should we solve the problem thoroughly? In this regard, Shan Shan, a cadre of wafangcun village, said that they also discussed with the masses countermeasures, either to allow enterprises to move or to move the whole village. "Relocation of enterprises should not be possible, but we are growing up here for generations to come, and no one wants to move away."

Duan Shishan said.

"It's estimated that the water will be completed in a month, and that it will not be necessary to feed the water at that time."

Xiaoxian county Party Committee Propaganda Department Director Li told reporters that

The water source area has been found. After the results of the inspection samples are sent out, the water source area can be determined and water can be released after the water pipeline is laid.