The polluted coliform bacteria in Weifang are seriously exceeding the public interest litigation

A pig farm contaminated several villages of drinking water, villagers complain 9 years without fruit. After the qualification department testing, contaminated groundwater fecal coliform bacteria group index more than 50 times the national standard. The case was recently exposed to the drainage of deep wells in Shandong province Weifang Changle County. The source was identified as Weifang Lok Hong Kong Food Co., Ltd. third commercial pig farm. March 7, the Ministry of Environmental Protection of China Environmental Protection Association in accordance with the newly revised Civil Action Law to the Weifang Intermediate People's Court submitted a public service petition, the third pig farm immediately stop pollution, and put forward a claim of more than 7 million yuan for environmental pollution treatment and repair. China Environmental Protection Federation Supervision and Litigation Minister Yong told the Law Daily Reporter, this is based on xinmin action law to the ordinary court brought the first environmental public interest litigation cases. The Weifang Intermediate People's Court accepted the petition and the lawsuit preservation application. Over-standard waste water direct row reservoir settles in Changle County five map Street third pig farm seemingly inconspicuous, actually in the local is notoriously. The third pig farm is "at present the largest, matching the most perfect, the best quality meat duck, one-stop production and operation of Pigs," Weifang Lok Hong Kong Food Co., Ltd. subordinate pig farms and emboldened. Online data show that Weifang Lok Hong Kong Food Co., Ltd. total assets of 5 billion yuan, employees 11000 people, annual output value of 7 billion yuan. March 6, "legal daily" reporter with Yong and other people from the third pig farm sewage from the mouth of the road from the three to 6 km to five figure street Ju Jia Cun Ju Jia Reservoir, the reporter found that the waste water from the third pig farm stretches for several kilometers, during which, at least 3 of the fish ponds due to pollution has From the beginning of the Ju Reservoir, reporters and Yong and so on to swim down, found that the third pig farm waste water eventually directly discharged into the Miao reservoir. According to locals, Miao Zi Reservoir is one of the Weifang drinking water sources. Villagers said that the third pig farm pollution is not only five of the streets of several villages, Weifang drinking water is also suffering from pollution. Illegal sewage for up to 9 years March 5 morning, the reporter saw, emitting a strong odor of thick black water from the third pig farm sewage treatment plant discharge from the mouth. "It's daytime, the water is much smaller, and in the evening or in the wee hours, the water is a lot bigger." Zhang Xiwang, of the five-figure street Zhuang with reporters, told reporters that the situation had lasted for 9 years. He said that there was a sewage treatment facility on the surface of the pig farm, which was actually just a device and not running at all. The waste water in the pig farm is only precipitated in the sedimentation tank, the original discharge. Zhang Xiwang said that 9 years of time, sewage flow through the area of groundwater has been thoroughly contaminated. "We have been drinking groundwater for generations, from the beginning of last year, the groundwater has not been drunk, the extraction of groundwater are pig dung smell." Zhang Xiwang told reporters that for the groundwater pollution problem, they several village representatives do not know how many times to find the relevant departments. "City and county Environmental Protection Bureau We have also been to the Environmental Protection Department has made public applications, but nothing has been resolved." In the second half of last year, the villagers really Qibuguo, the pig farm sewage treatment plant's external walls were demolished. "ZhangSeaward said, "things like this, also do not see the Environmental protection Department to urge pig farm rectification." In the sewage treatment plant of the third pig farm, some of the wall tiles that were demolished by the villagers were still scattered on the ground, and the external walls of the sewage treatment plant which were repaired were obviously different from those of other walls. China Environmental Protection Federation investigators Song Jiebin told the Law Daily Reporter, last December, they had to do research, time passed 3 months, the pig farm did not carry out any rectification. According to the Chinese Environmental Protection Federation volunteer Lawyer Duzule, on the third pig farm pollution problem, November 11, 2012, commissioned by the China Environmental Protection Federation, he had to Weifang Lok Hong Kong Food Co., Ltd. and the company chairman of the Confaing St. sent a lawyer letter, in the lawyer letter, Duzule clearly inform the third pig farms illegal sewage problem, and proposed to the third pig farm "to take effective measures immediately, (a) to dispose of the discharged sewage in a harmless way, to set up a special sewage discharge pipeline and to connect to the urban sewer network to prevent further damage, and to immediately compensate for the three rectification requirements, such as the loss of water and living water caused by groundwater pollution to the local residents due to sewage discharged from your farms November 22, 2012, Weifang Lok Hong Kong Food Co., Ltd. Reply to Duzule, said the third pig farm has an EIA report, its production is approved by the Environmental Protection Department. Weifang Lok Hong Kong Food Co., Ltd. has denied all the questions about the pollution of groundwater in the lawyer's letter. There are live bugs in the ground water. Hu Jia Zhuang is the nearest to the third pig farm sewer, five figure street Hu Jia Zhuang villagers Hu Hongmei told Yong, from her home to the sewer also 100 meters away. It is precisely because of the distance, Hu Jia Zhuang is also the heaviest pollution of a village. In the Hu family village, an old man's home, the abandoned underground water pipe in the discharge is actually black, but also with a foul smell, "this taste is still small, if the water boil open, the smell is even greater." "said Old Hu. At the Hu Hongmei House, she released two buckets of groundwater from the underground water pipe and found live worms in two buckets of groundwater. "We dare not drink such water." Hu Jia Zhuang, a village cadre, said since last year, their groundwater can not drink, was forced to find a third pig farm, in their many struggles, the third pig farm was forced to agree to Hu Jiazhuang, Zhuang, Songjiazhuang Three village villagers can be free access to the pig farm tap water. "We had asked them to install water pipes for us, but they were rejected," he said. "A cadre of the Zhuang Village committee said they had to take out more than 600 yuan of money, their own people installed a water pipeline," now reluctantly connected to the third pig farm of tap water, but, the villagers reflect that the pig farm tap water also sometimes, a better condition of the villagers at their own expense from the county installed tap water. " The village cadre said. According to the introduction, not all villagers can get this more than 600 yuan of money. March 6, reporters in Songjiazhuang Song Baofu home to see, so far his family is still drinking contaminated groundwater. "Our village is the only one with no running water. Songjiazhuang a village cadre said. According to the village cadre introduced, Song Baofu has been over 5 years, has notMarry。 Song Baofu is now living with some retarded brother. In the Song Baofu home, the reporter saw, two old houses, not a decent furniture, let alone television, refrigerators and other electrical appliances. The underground water from the water pipe exists in the tank of the Song Baofu House, "The water precipitates in the tank, it is used to cook and boil water." "Song Baofu said. In the courtyard of Song Baofu, two cows kept grazing. The village cadres said the two cows drink the ground water every day. According to villagers, the third pig farm before production, five figure street all villages are drinking groundwater. At present, not only from the third pig farms near the Hu Jia Zhuang, Zhuang and Songjiazhuang of the groundwater is contaminated, even 5 kilometers outside the Ju Jia village of groundwater has been contaminated. In the Ju, the bank of the reservoir, reporters and Yong met with fertilizer for their own farmland, sun surnamed villagers, he told reporters, Ju home village of groundwater also can not drink. "From the year before, our village of groundwater began to smell, now every day to buy bottled water to eat, if not congee, a 3 one months 35 barrels of water is almost enough, if the congee will be nearly 10 barrels of water." The villager said, "We rarely drink congee since the groundwater has been polluted." Water money can't afford to spend. "Environmental groups filed a lawsuit starting January 1 this year, the Xinmin action law, from the legal provisions, environmental organizations can bring environmental public interest litigation." March 6, the reporter witnessed the Yong to the Weifang Intermediate People's Court to submit the indictment process. The judge said that this is not only the implementation of the Xinmin lawsuit law, the court received the first public interest litigation cases, but also since the establishment of the court received the first environmental public interest litigation cases. She told Yong and others that the court would attach great importance to the case. And will soon study whether to file. March 7, the Chinese Environmental Protection Federation investigators Song Jiebin and volunteer lawyer Duzule also submitted to the Weifang Intermediate People's Court of Evidence Preservation application, requesting the Court in the third pig farm sewage discharge at the site of its discharge of sewage sampling and arranging the relevant departments for identification; take photographs of the entire process of discharging sewage from the defendant's site, Video with fixed evidence. The court had received. "We have done many environmental public interest litigation cases in the courts with environmental protection courts, in the ordinary courts or the first to bring environmental public interest litigation." Yong told the law Daily Reporter, this is also the implementation of Xinmin Action Law, the Federation brought up the first environmental public interest litigation cases. He said the case involved several village villagers in the drinking water safety, and, after the qualified testing department testing, the third pig farm drains through the area of groundwater has indeed been seriously polluted. According to him, December 13, 2012, the Chinese Environmental Protection Federation commissioned a special testing institutions will be extracted from the sewage water samples for the second Test, the results showed that the turbidity of sewage up to 396, chemical oxygen demand (COD) 1400 mg per liter, ammonia nitrogen up to 610 mg per liter, total phosphorus up to 16.4 mg per liter, The main pollutant exceeded the standard seriously. Yong said the specialized agency also tested the extracted groundwater, with the result that the turbidity was 70.6, more than 20 times the national standard; ammonia nitrogen 3.06 mg per liter, exceeding the national standard (0.2 mg per liter) 15 times; fecal coliform bacteria group 170MPN per 100 ml, exceeding the national standard of more than 50. (should be asked by the interviewer, the article was interviewed villagers are aliases) (the reporter Xi Jian rong)