Official sacked for pollution
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A LOCAL government official was sacked and seven others punished after a company in northeast China was found to have illegally discharged sandy water that polluted the tap water supply in Lanzhou in March, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said yesterday.
The tap water began smelling of ammonia in the capital of Gansu Province between March 4 and 7 and led to a panic buying of bottled water.
An investigation found that the pollution was mainly due to the wrongdoing of the Jinxing water electricity company in Minhe County of upstream Qinghai Province along the Yellow River, the ministry said yesterday.
The company illegally discharged waste water with sand into the Huangshui River, an upper tributary of the Yellow River and polluted the downstream water source, it said. It didn’t explain why the sandy water would cause the smell of ammonia.
The legal representative of the company has been detained for 10 days for interfering with government officers’ enforcement, while the company has been fined by 100,000 yuan (US$16,112), the ministry said.
The deputy director with the water authority of Lanzhou’s Honggu District was sacked.
Another 7 officials with the district government, environmental protection and construction bureaus as well as the water authority and environment watchdog in Minhe County were punished for disciplinary violations.
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