Core Tip: 15, environmental protection departments of Shaanxi Fengxiang published children’s blood lead pollution incidents over the monitoring results of the investigation. The Group believes that, Shaanxi Dongling Smelting Co., Ltd. is a cause of the children of the main causes of excessive blood, does not rule out other factors.
August 15, Shaanxi Dongling Group smelting factory. Recently, Shaanxi Zhendong Evergreen Ridge凤翔县smelting company-wide group of 731 children in two villages to receive blood lead testing to confirm blood lead exceeded 615 people, of which 166 are moderate, severe lead poisoning, need to be hospitalized for scheduling lead treatment, other children at home need to lead to non-pharmacological. Dongling environmental protection department is to determine the initial source of lead. China issued photo Zhao-zhao
By August 15 Xi’an Xinhua released the environmental protection department of the Shaanxi Province on the 15th night Fengxiang children’s blood lead pollution incidents over the monitoring results of the investigation. The Group believes that, Shaanxi Dongling Smelting Co., Ltd. is a cause of the children of the main causes of excessive blood, does not rule out other factors.
The Han Qin, head of environmental monitoring group has said that the meeting laid a total environmental monitoring of groundwater, surface water, soil, trunk air environment, business sources refining furnace, the total waste water discharge point, solid waste slag quenching, such as 30 points, a total of 69 samples. Monitoring data show that the groundwater, the surrounding soil and surface water related to the concentration of lead in line with national standards; on the incident and the only lead and zinc smelting enterprises – Smelting Co., Ltd. Shaanxi Dongling monitoring data shows that waste water, waste gas, solid-water quenching slag emissions in line with national standards.
According to self-record shows that in July 2008 to July 2009, there are three wastewater, excessive exhaust emissions of lead records, the largest multiple of 2.82 times over. Enterprises in the total amount of lead emissions from 1.11 tons. At the same time, monitoring the results of this survey show that the surrounding soil and lead the average in 2008 compared to the environmental protection acceptance monitoring data shows an upward trend, but are in line with the national soil environmental quality standards, the quality of air in the side of the road away from the road than the concentration of lead regional obvious High. The Group believes that, Shaanxi Dongling Smelting Co., Ltd. is a cause of the children of the main causes of excessive blood, does not rule out other factors.
The survey of the problems found in testing, environmental monitoring group ordered Shaanxi Dongling smelting Smelting Co., Ltd. to stop production, the company should be in accordance with the EIA requirements of the full implementation of reform measures to ensure that the pollutants emission standards; Fengxiang urge to speed up the relocation of the progress of the town of Evergreen, at the same time will also tie in with the Office of the provincial environmental protection凤翔县Evergreen Industrial Park, after an environmental impact assessment.
HE Hong-year at a press conference about the progress of treatment in children with blood lead, at present, 166 children have been hospitalized, at home on the 449 non-drug treatment of children Lead-refoulement,凤翔县will be August 16 effect on these children bring home items such as milk, dried vegetables by the Working Group home staff and medical staff to guide treatment.
Dongling赵卫平deputy party secretary of the Group in the conference on behalf of the Group of blood lead over Dongling children and families, surrounded by the masses to express our deep regret and said that these children will be children as their own, with the Government’s treatment of these children, so that them back to health at an early date and at the same time in accordance with the requirements of environmental protection departments do a good job in a timely rectification.
That night, in a press conference held at the same time, Fengxiang county party committee and government held in the town of Evergreen town, village, group of three cadres of the General Assembly, released the survey to monitor the situation of pollution sources. The county’s major leaders at the meeting said that the Government will try its best to lead children to carry out treatment to speed up the scope of the EIA standard to move the masses to ensure that the interests of the masses.
Recalling the incident:
August 15: Shaanxi continued blood lead incident: villagers questioned the removal of lead pollution and there are still
Shaanxi experienced Fengxiang “lead poisoning of children,” following the introduction of the relocation program, and questioned the villagers to move to lead-contaminated areas are still, for us to move there, although the distance and smelting companies reached more than one kilometer, but in the end can not be completely from lead pollution.
August 13: Shaanxi Fengxiang sampling 731 children found that blood lead exceeded 615
13 evening 8:00,凤翔县the Government of Shaanxi Province held a news conference, said the sampling found that 731 children over 615 blood, 315 of lead poisoning and blood lead information on the treatment of overweight children and Dongling the requirements of the project EIA the relocation of the program within the masses. At the same time that the treatment of patients drive the cost of lead county full financial burden.
August 11: Shaanxi Fengxiang continued over a hundred children’s blood lead exceeded: by the smelter shutdown
Shaanxi凤翔县hundreds of children were found excessive lead content in blood, a local smelter emissions over the suspect. August 6, Baoji City, the Environmental Protection Agency asked the companies over the issue of blood did not investigate the production of the former can not be restored.
August 9: Shaanxi Fengxiang abnormal hundreds of children’s blood lead concentration (Figure)
Recently, the town of Shaanxi Changqing Ma凤翔县crossing the village and the neighboring village孙家南Village — villagers spontaneously to major hospitals in Baoji detected, the two villages, hundreds of infants and children, the vast majority of lead were detected in the body over , some of which are seriously overweight has reached the standard of poisoning. Two villagers home with a North-South Central 200,000 tons annual output of lead and zinc smelting enterprises, suspected related.
