New Targets for the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area

Recently, the “Water Pollution Prevention and Control Plan for the Three Gorges Reservoir Area and Its Upstream Region (Revised Edition)” has been approved by the State Council and formally issued to the Three Gorges Reservoir Area and its upstream provinces of Hubei, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan. After the plan was revised, there were 460 pollution prevention planning projects with a total investment of 22.824 billion yuan.

The newly revised plan determines that by 2010, the water quality of the major control sections of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area and its upstream reaches the national standard for surface water environmental quality as a whole; COD emissions are controlled at 1.264 million tons, which is 7.7% less than in 2005. 3%. To achieve this goal, the newly revised planning requirements: First, strict construction and operation requirements for sewage and waste treatment facilities. The second is to strictly control industrial pollution. Combining industrial structure adjustments, eliminating out-of-date water pollution companies and outdated production capacities, processes, equipment, and products that do not meet national industrial policies; and optimize industrial upgrading of papermaking, chemical, brewing, and pharmaceutical industries in the region, and enforce the law according to law. Cleaner production audit; discharge permits issued according to total watershed control requirements, and decompose total control indicators into pollutant discharge units; before the end of 2008, national water pollution monitoring companies within the planning area will be certified to discharge pollutants and install automatic at specified locations. Monitoring devices and networking with environmental protection agencies. The third is to strengthen the district protection strategy. We will implement the requirements for the division of major functional areas of the State for optimizing development, key development, restricting development, and prohibiting development, and determine the development directions of different regions to coordinate the contradictions of the Three Gorges reservoir area and its upstream economic development and water quality protection from the regional layout. The fourth is to speed up the treatment of pollution from ships. Implementation of the ship's waste receiving project, the ship's domestic sewage centralized treatment project and the chemical ship washing base project, and strengthening the ship's pollution emergency response capacity building.

It is understood that in the revised pollution prevention planning project, there are 131 urban sewage treatment projects that can form COD reduction capacity of about 120,000 tons/year, ammonia nitrogen reduction capacity of about 14,000 tons/year, and investment of 8.361 billion yuan. . There are 243 industrial pollution control projects that can generate COD reduction capacity of about 100,000 tons/year, ammonia nitrogen reduction capacity of about 12,000 tons/year, and investment of 6.15 billion yuan.

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