Most Polluted Water to Reach Baidu River Thursday Morning
Posted on: Thursday, 1 December 2005, 09:00 CST
Most polluted water to reach Baidu River Thursday morning
BEIJING, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- The most polluted part of a 110-km- long water belt in Songhua River, a result of the November 13 explosion of a upper reach chemical plant, is estimated to reach Baidu River point in Mulan county at midnight Thursday morning.
Mulan is the first of the five points the polluted belt will flow through in the coming days.
According to a Wednesday statement by the State Environmental Protection Administration, the polluted section reached Bayangang Town at 20:00 on Tuesday with a peak nitrobenzene density, which then dropped to 0.266 mg/L at zero hour on Wednesday.
Despite the drop, nitrobenzine was still 14.65 times above the standard level.
Meanwhile, the water quality in the section of Harbin, the provincial capital of Heilongjiang, is currently up to national standards. No benzene has been found there by the local environmental bureaus.
The front emergency headquarters of the Heilongjiang provincial environmental protection bureau was moved to Jiamusi, while local environmental departments are closely monitoring the situation at the five points of Mulan, Dalianhe, Jiamusi, Fujin, and Tongjiang.
Source: Xinhua News Agency - CEIS
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