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Campaign to clean up city’s waterways
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SHANGHAI will dredge river, remove illegal structures by the riverside and rebuild sewage and irrigation systems in suburban areas in a major campaign to clean up the waterways.
“The city government has dredged and cleaned the major Huangpu River and Suzhou Creek, but most small tributaries and waterways remain in poor conditions,” vice mayor Jiang Zhuoqing told a meeting yesterday while officially launching the campaign.
Shanghai has a wide stretch of polluted waterways especially in the suburban areas.
There are some 26,000 creeks and waterways stretching over 25,000 kilometers. Most of them have been polluted by factories built during the height of urban development in 1990s.
Though most of the factories have been moved, local residents farm and raise poultry next to the rivers and dump wastes and sewage into the waters.
As per the plan, the government will build new sewage and irrigation systems for them. Waste water will be purified before being released into the rivers.
Illegal constructions will be demolished and old barges and boats will be removed. All companies found polluting the waters will be shut down. Some 2,400 kilometers of waterways in towns and villages will be dredged annually from this year.
Some 300 kilometers of waterways near the city’s four major tap water sources — the Qingcaisha, Chenhang, Dongfeng Xisha and Jinze reservoirs — will be declared protected areas. Boats and ships will be banned from entering the area to ensure the quality of the city’s tap water.
“Time is urgent and the mission is difficult to accomplish,” Jiang told the heads of local districts at the meeting.
The Zhangma Village in Qingpu District has become a model project for the campaign after it cleaned up its severely polluted water in a year.
The village is in Qingpu’s Zhujiajiao which is famous for its water town, but its rivers were polluted after villagers poured wastes into the rivers and raised poultry and pigs near it. The district government has set up seven waste water treatment plants and a rubbish treatment station in the village.
Families are awarded 100 yuan (US$621) every month for cleaning the riverside near their homes.
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