The State Council Songhua River Basin Water Pollution Disposal Coordinating Group, deputy head of the Monitoring and Prevention Group, and Zhu Guangyao, deputy director of the State Environmental Protection Administration, announced on December 13 that the Songhua River Water Pollution Event Eco-Environmental Impact Assessment and Countermeasures Project was officially launched.
Zhu Guangyao said that in accordance with the instructions of the State Council on the need to do a good job of the Songhua River water pollution aftermath and assess the environmental quality of the places where the sewage flows through, the current work focuses on water quality monitoring, environmental assessment, and the Songhua River. Middle and long-term pollution control in the river basin and restoration of normal production and living order. Monitoring of water pollution incidents in the Songhua River Basin and environmental impact assessments have a bearing on the ability to scientifically judge and assess the multiple impacts of pollution incidents on the ecological environment, and propose scientific and feasible prevention and control countermeasures.
It is understood that the Songhua River water pollution environmental impact assessment work will be carried out. It is a pollution plan for the Songhua River Basin of the State Council that addresses the migration and transformation of pollutants, the adsorption and retention of pollutants after freezing, and the environmental impact, drinking water, and fishery safety. The disposal coordination team monitors an important task of the prevention and control team. As the lead unit of the monitoring and prevention unit, the State Environmental Protection Administration has organized more than 20 units including the China Academy of Environmental Sciences and Tsinghua University to conduct several discussions and expert demonstrations, on-site investigations, and preliminary experiments to compile the “Single River Major Pollution Incident. Eco-environment impact assessment and technical solutions. The "plan" solicited opinions from the leaders of the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces, water conservancy, agriculture, environmental protection, and related experts. At present, the "plan" has been revised, and the work in the "plan" involving ice, sediment, groundwater, and total pollution calculations has already begun. It has already provided an important scientific basis for government decision-making.