Huizhou took the opportunity of rectification of environmental protection inspectors to vigorously carry out ＂six annihilation wars＂ and further promote water pollution control.

Huizhou blew the clarion call of "striving for a first-class city in China" at the Sixth Plenary Session of the Eleventh Municipal Committee, which is inseparable from the excellent ecological environment as a guarantee. Under the strong leadership of the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government, Huizhou has overcome difficulties, strengthened its advantages and made up its shortcomings, and resolutely laid a solid battle for pollution prevention and control with greater determination, harder measures and more practical style.

It is worth mentioning that when the Fifth Environmental Protection Inspector Group of the Central Committee gave feedback to Guangdong Province on the situation of "looking back", it requested that the rectification of the Central Environmental Protection Inspector should be taken as an opportunity to systematically promote water pollution control and strengthen the protection of drinking water sources. In this regard, Huizhou took the rectification of environmental protection inspectors as an opportunity to vigorously carry out the "six major annihilation wars" and further promote water pollution control. The data shows that in 2018, the proportion of excellent water quality in nine national and provincial examination sections in the city increased from 55.6% at the beginning of the year to 66.7% at present, and the proportion of inferior V water bodies decreased from 33.3% to 22.2%.

Hire experts as water conservancy consultants to strengthen technical support

In the first half of last year, Huizhou faced the dilemma of water quality decline in the national examination and provincial examination sections. In this regard, Huizhou City learned from a bitter experience and made a comprehensive analysis of the reasons for the decline in water quality. With the determination of a strong man to break his wrist, he carried out rectification work with the most severe measures and made every effort to turn the situation around.

Huizhou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government attached great importance to the tough battle of water pollution prevention and control, mainly led special meetings to study and deploy the water pollution prevention and control work, repeatedly inspected the water quality of the national examination section on site, presided over the promotion meeting, seminar and interview meeting of the water quality improvement work of the national examination section, and successively issued a series of water control schemes such as the Implementation Plan of the 2018 Water Pollution Prevention and Control Tough Battle in Huizhou, the Work Plan of the Inspector of the Pollution Prevention and Control Tough Battle in Huizhou, and the Integrated Reform Plan of Water Supply and Sewage in Huizhou.

At the same time, strengthen information scheduling. Establish a tough battle mechanism such as weekly judgment, monthly dispatch, quarterly report and expert consultation. Relevant persons in charge judge the environmental quality situation and key work every week. City leaders dispatch the tough battles of pollution prevention and control in counties and districts and relevant departments every month. Experts were hired as technical consultants for water control in Shahe, and a municipal team of experts was planned to be established, and an expert consultation mechanism was established to strengthen the technical support for the city’s tough battle against pollution. Establish an early warning system for environmental quality situation, timely issue early warning for areas where environmental quality declines and key work is not completed in place, report the early warning situation to the municipal party Committee and the municipal government, forward it to counties and put forward work requirements.

In terms of strengthening the accountability of supervision, we will strengthen supervision and supervision, and the municipal government will implement a monthly "one supervision" for key tasks. The main leaders of the municipal government have collectively interviewed the main leaders of the county governments several times, interviewed or entrusted the leaders in charge to interview the main leaders and leaders in charge of individual counties.

The rectification of environmental problems in nine municipal drinking water sources has been completed.

Huizhou has made unprecedented efforts to promote six wars of water pollution annihilation, namely, regional pollution annihilation in key river basins, environmental infrastructure construction annihilation, agricultural non-point source pollution annihilation, river pollution annihilation, industrial pollution annihilation and pollution annihilation along the Dongjiang River.

Carry out regional pollution annihilation war in key river basins. Pay close attention to pollution control in key river basins such as Danshui River, Tonghu Lake and Shahe River, and achieve certain results. The water quality in Shahe Estuary has risen from the poor Grade V in the first quarter of 2018 to the current Grade V, and the section of Chigang Village in Tonghu Lake has reached Grade V for two consecutive months from October to November. The ammonia nitrogen concentration difference between Zixi section of Danshui River and Xihu Village section in the upper reaches has narrowed, and the downward trend of water quality in key river basins has been effectively curbed. Vigorously rectify the environmental problems of drinking water sources. At present, the rectification of environmental problems of nine municipal drinking water sources has been completed.

Implement the annihilation war of environmental infrastructure construction. Huiyang Danshui, Boluo Yuanzhou Phase III, Shiwan Daniului, Shiwan Xiji and Huzhen Xiangshuipian Sewage Treatment Plants have been put into trial operation, with an additional sewage treatment capacity of 117,500 tons/day and an additional ammonia nitrogen reduction capacity of about 1.6 tons/day; Two main projects have been completed in Meihu Phase III and Huidong Kaozhouyang Phase II, and two main projects are under construction in Jinshan Phase II and Ma ‘an Phase I; In 2018, 406.7 kilometers of sewage pipe network was newly built, with a completion rate of 78%; 118 rural sewage treatment facilities were newly built.

Implement the annihilation war of agricultural non-point source pollution. The Work Plan for Resource Utilization of Livestock and Poultry Breeding Wastes in Huizhou City and the Work Plan for Pollution Prevention and Control of Livestock and Poultry Breeding in Huizhou City were formulated and implemented. The illegal livestock and poultry farms have been cleaned up and rectified. Since 2018, the city has cleaned up about 2,100 pig-scale farms and specialized households with no corresponding supporting environmental protection facilities in forbidden areas and non-forbidden areas, with about 375,000 pigs; Clean up 420 poultry farms and about 1.35 million poultry; Clean up 4.11 million pigeons in 370 households, and reduce ammonia nitrogen by 1.5 tons/day.

Carry out a river pollution annihilation war. Complete the reorganization of the Municipal Water Investment Group Co., Ltd. and further accelerate the river regulation in Huicheng Central District; In-depth remediation of 27 black and odorous water bodies has been carried out, and except for 9 "initial results", the rest 18 have been started. Driven by the river length system, the city’s river regulation work has achieved results. In 2018, 108 major rivers in seven major water systems were directly discharged, with 53 ammonia nitrogen and 60 total phosphorus concentrations decreasing year-on-year, and 37 ammonia nitrogen and total phosphorus concentrations decreasing year-on-year. The overall water quality of rivers in the city improved.

Carry out the industrial pollution annihilation war. Strengthen environmental law enforcement, formulate the Special Supervision Plan for Environmental Law Enforcement of Major Rivers in Huizhou City in 2018-2019, carry out special law enforcement actions of "Spring Thunder", "Clear Summer", "Autumn Wind" and "Winter" on a quarterly basis, and organize special supervision actions for environmental law enforcement of major rivers such as Shahe, Tonghu, Danshui River, Gongzhuang River and Longmen River. In 2018, the city found and assigned 1,406 environmental problems. Comprehensively clean up and rectify "scattered and polluted" enterprises, and implement special rectification for backward enterprises, processing points and workshops that have a great impact on the environment. Classified implementation of measures such as shutting down and banning, integrated relocation, rectification and upgrading. A total of 3,208 "scattered pollution" industrial enterprises have been detected in the city, and 1,784 have been rectified, with a completion rate of 56%.

Implement the pollution annihilation war along the Dongjiang River. The investment is about 73 million yuan, and the total area of water lily cleaning is about 29 million square meters; Complete the cleaning and rectification of illegal ships, docks, yards and illegal restaurants.

The water quality of the national examination section has been improved.

After a year of hard work, the downward trend of water quality has been effectively curbed, and five of the nine sections have improved compared with the first quarter of 2018. The water quality of Shahe Estuary in Boluo County rose from inferior grade V to grade V, Gongzhuang River rose from grade IV to grade III, Dongjiang Boluoxia and Longmen Zengjiang Jiulongtan rose from grade III to grade II, and the section of Chigang Village in Zhongkaitong Lake reached grade V for two consecutive months from October to November. In addition, the water quality of Ruhu Lake in Dongjiang River, Jiantan Lake in Dongjiang River, Ma ‘an Bridge in Xizhijiang River and Zixi River in Danshui River remained stable.

In 2018, the ammonia nitrogen in the entry section (estuary) and exit section (Shilong North River) of the main stream of Dongjiang River in Huizhou was 0.235mg/l, and the ammonia nitrogen pollution load between the entry and exit sections increased by 0.150mg/l, compared with 0.332mg/l in the same period last year. Compared with the same period, the ammonia nitrogen pollution load of Dongjiang River in Huizhou was reduced by 0.182 mg/L. Through the "three major battles" of pollution prevention and control implemented since 2018, Huizhou’s three major types of pollution sources, such as life, agriculture and industry, have been reduced, and the pollution into the main stream of Dongjiang River has been greatly reduced. The water quality of drinking water sources in the city has remained stable, and the water quality of centralized drinking water sources included in routine monitoring has all reached the standard.

The data shows that in 2018, the proportion of excellent water quality in nine national and provincial examination sections in the city increased from 55.6% at the beginning of the year to 66.7% at present, and the proportion of inferior V water bodies decreased from 33.3% to 22.2%.