Yangzhou Economic Development Zone: Guarding drinking water safety with heart

Water is the source of life. Since the beginning of this year, the Procuratorate of Yangzhou Economic Development Zone has focused on the people's livelihood of "drinking water safety", followed up investigation, urged the river management and environmental management to effectively protect the safety of the people's drinking water.

"The water source of the Yangtze River Guazhou, 300,000 tons/day of water removal, 550,000 people in the service population. Over the area of ​​more than 200 acres ... "In December last year, the inspector of the first ecological environmental protection inspection team in Jiangsu Province.

The Yangzhou Economic Development Zone Procuratorate immediately launched an investigation. It is understood that the main shoreline of the Yangzhou section of the Yangtze River is about 76 kilometers long. There are centralized drinking water sources of Sanjiangying, Guazhou, and Binjiang along the line. Essence There are aquatic breeding problems in the management and control area of ​​the secondary protected area of ​​the Yangtze River Guazhou drinking water source, which is easy to pollute drinking water sources, threatening the safety of drinking water for citizens, and no geographical labels and warning signs are found in the border of the drinking water source protection area. It violates the "Law on the Prevention and Control of the People's Republic of China" and "Regulations on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution in Jiangsu Province", and relevant administrative functional departments have statutory duties such as environmental governance and supervision. After fixed evidence, the Yangzhou Economic Development Zone Procuratorate quickly launched the pre -procedure of administrative public interest litigation.

In January of this year, the hospital advised the prosecution proposal to the relevant functional departments before the issuance of the law of issuance of the issuance of the issuance of the government, urged them to fulfill the responsibilities of environmental protection and pollution prevention and control in accordance with the law, improve the geographical boundary and warning signs of the drinking water source protection zone, and The aquaculture facilities that do not comply with relevant laws and regulations and planned aquaculture facilities in a timely manner, effectively protect ecological safety and drink water safety along the river, and strengthen the publicity and education of ecological environmental protection and green development in the Yangtze River Basin.

After receiving the procuratorial suggestion, the relevant functional departments attached great importance to organizing centralized rectification. In order to properly resolve disputes and passivation of contradictions, the procuratorial organs suggested that relevant functional departments such as environmental protection, fishery administration, and water conservancy to further improve the coordination and linkage mechanism, and jointly promote the implementation of the negotiation process and the implementation of the problem rectification work. In March of this year, local governments signed a mediation agreement with the breeding plant to reach an agreement: the farmers were removed by the farmers, and local governments paid compensation and cleanup.

After two months of rectification, the illegal and illegal construction facilities, steel frame breeding ponds and farming tail water discharge, cage breeding and centralized livestock in the upstream secondary protected area of ​​the Yangtze River Guaizhou Drinking Water Source Reserve have All poultry breeding and other cleanups have been cleaned up. The local townships set up a sign of the "Yangtze River Drinking Water Source 2nd Reserve to ban all affecting drinking water sources". The person in charge of the relevant administrative department said that it will continue to strengthen the daily management and inspections of the drinking water source protection area, timely investigate and clear the hidden environmental safety hazards, ensure the safety of water quality, and let the people drink "rest assured water".

The Procuratorate of Yangzhou Economic Development Zone will continue to give full play to the procuratorial functions, do a good job of public interest litigation, focus on hot issues such as environmental pollution that the people are concerned about, and fight the tackling war and lasting war in key areas such as ecological environment. Prosecution guards the people of the people.

Source: Xinhua Daily

Edit: Wang Jirong

Review: Wu Ping Zhao Aiguo

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