Pollution incident of Gansu Ronghua Industrial Co., Ltd.

From 2065438 to mid-March 2005, Gansu Wuwei Ronghua Industry and Trade Company discharged pollutants into the desert, which aroused widespread concern in society. The polluted desert is located 23 kilometers east of Wuwei city, which is called "80-mile sand" locally, and most of the deserts are fixed sand dunes. After aerial photography and GPS positioning, 23 sewage pits of different sizes were identified, with a polluted area of 266 mu. The pollutants discharged into the desert are mainly the production wastewater discharged by Ronghua Company through No.2, No.3 and No.4 pumping stations, which are usually used for greening trees on both sides of desert roads. Because trees don't need irrigation in winter, they are discharged directly into the desert.

Enterprises were punished and 3 million environmental protection officials were held accountable.

Liu Wanhong, spokesman of Liangzhou District Government, said that from May 28th, 20 14 to March 6th, 20 15, Ronghua Industry and Trade Company discharged a total of 27 1654 tons of wastewater. Among them, 187939 tons is used for greening irrigation of trees on both sides of Rong Sheng desert highway invested and constructed by Ronghua Industry and Trade Company, and 837 15 tons is directly discharged into the desert hinterland by laying underground pipelines. Experts from the Ministry of Environmental Protection preliminarily judged that Ronghua Industry and Trade Company put into trial production without approval, and set up underground pipelines to discharge production wastewater into the desert when all environmental protection facilities were not completed.

After the incident, Gansu Province, Wuwei City and Liangzhou District quickly set up investigation and disposal leading groups to concentrate on investigation and disposal according to law. The investigation team believes that the environmental pollution behavior of Ronghua Industry and Trade Company is a typical violation of discipline. At present, two directly responsible persons of the enterprise have been administratively detained by the public security department, and the chairman of the company has been put on file for investigation. At the same time, the main person in charge, the person in charge and the person directly responsible of the environmental protection departments in Wuwei City and Liangzhou District have been suspended for examination and will be dealt with seriously according to the investigation results of the discipline inspection and supervision departments and procuratorial organs.

Wuwei City fined Ronghua Industry and Trade Company a total of 3003 105 yuan according to the new Environmental Protection Law and the Water Pollution Prevention Law, and recovered the sewage charges 18062 1 yuan since it was put into production. According to the damage assessment report, calculate the damage caused by sewage discharge and order it to bear the cost of ecological restoration.