"It's not a alarm clock that wakes me up in the morning, but the cutting sound of steel." The owner reported the merchants selling steel downstairs.

The Yangtze River Daily Da Wuhan client June 20th "My family lives on the 22nd floor, but I can hear the noise of cutting steel on the shop on the first floor of the shop every day." On June 20, the reporter learned from the Hanyang District Court that The hospital accepted a dispute over noise pollution of the owner sued the bottom merchant.

Soon after Ms. Zhao moved to a community in Hanyang District in 2017, the east of the community was upgraded into a new building materials market. At this time, some merchants purchased or rented the shops on the first floor of the community for the processing and operation of building materials such as doors and windows, and the noise generated by daily cutting and processing was very noise. "There are 29 floors high in this building. My family lives on the 22nd floor. It is not the alarm clock that wakes me up in the morning, but the cutting sound of steel." She introduced.

Steel (data chart) stacked by the shop. Photo by correspondent Chen Yali

In February this year, 7 owners, including Ms. Zhao, sued the 6 merchants on the first floor to court, asking the shops to stop processing and production, stop noise violations and move away from the community. During the trial, the proof of sort of evidence, determining that the noise generated during the production of the operator did exceed the highest value of noise emissions in the second-class living area of ​​the plaintiff in the "Social Living Environment Noise Emissions Standard" (GB22337-2008).

In order to balance the interests of merchants and owners, the judges were organized to investigate and visit the local streets, urban management departments and communities, and coordinated multiple parties to seek solutions.

It is reported that on June 5 this year, the "Control Law of the People's Republic of China" was formally implemented, which clearly stipulated that: air -conditioners and cooling towers such as air -conditioners and cooling towers in commercial business activities may produce environmental noise pollution equipment and facilities. Measures should be taken so that the border noise does not exceed the environmental noise emission standards stipulated by the state.

"On the one hand, it is the normal operation of the merchant, and on the other hand, it is the owner's daily life, and it cannot be judged directly." Said the undertaking judge.

After mediation, the six merchants agreed to adopt the method of "finished product display" and "processing separation", that is, the bottom of the community for finished product display and daily office, and transferred the processing and cutting links of noise to other places.

"We have cut the steel to a processing plant 3 kilometers away." The shop owner said.

The relevant person in charge of the Hanyang District Court said that when handling such cases, the court focused on the actual solving the problem of noise pollution in the community, purifying the living environment of the owners of the community, and ensuring the normal operation of the enterprise. Unity with social effects. (Changjiang Daily reporter Geng Shanshan correspondent Ding Kanwen Chen Yali)

[Edit: Deng La Xiu]

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