On the morning of New Year’s Day, many people were still asleep after the reunion on New Year’s Eve. Zhang Chu Town, secretary of the Party branch of Ximei Village, Gurao Town, Chaoyang District, Shantou City, and the village-level river chief of Gurao River, got up early and drove from home to patrol the river next to Gurao River, a secondary tributary of Lianjiang River, as usual. "I’m worried that the firecrackers and scraps of paper set off by the villagers will fly into the river, so I must come and have a look."
During the Spring Festival, Zhang Chu Town is far more than the only one that is worried about the length of the river governing the water pipe.
At the end of last year, the provincial pollution prevention and control tough battle headquarters issued the first order, calling for a special campaign to comprehensively attack the inferior V national examination sections, resolutely prevent the addition of inferior V national examination sections, and basically eliminate inferior V national examination sections in 2020. Including Lianjiang and other inferior V water bodies. At the same time, there are more than 38,000 five-level rivers and lakes in our province, and the total number of them is more than 150,000, plus the river length and river patrol set up by villagers’ groups. Go deep into the main tributaries, realize the full coverage of rivers and lakes in the province, earnestly perform their duties, drive all walks of life to work together, and implement water control at the ends of twigs, which has become a powerful starting point for Guangdong to fight hard for clear water.
The director of Raoxi River in Lianjiang Valley and the project personnel stick to their posts.
In the mobile phone of Zhang Chu Town, the reporter saw the information such as the time, place and walking track of his river patrol in Guraoxi on the platform of "Guangdong Wisdom River Chief". "I basically go for a walk every day." As the river chief at the grass-roots level, Zhang Chu Town admits that it has become his working habit to "patrol the river when he has nothing to do" in recent years, and the Spring Festival is no exception.
Guraoxi is the main river for flood discharge and drainage in Gurao Town, and it is also a secondary tributary with heavy pollution in Chaoyang section of Shantou in Lianjiang River Basin, which flows into the main stream of Lianjiang River through Beigang River. In July last year, illegal buildings on both sides of Guraoxi River that had occupied rivers and polluted directly for decades were demolished one after another, and now Guraoxi River has become much wider and cleaner. However, the work of pipe network construction and village appearance cleaning still needs to be continuously promoted.
"In the past Spring Festival, the domestic garbage in the village will increase a lot." Zhang Chu Town told reporters that in addition to patrolling the river, he also focused on the sanitation work in the village: the village committee contracted the daily cleaning work to the cleaning staff at a monthly rate of 13,000 yuan, and then they hired their own people to do it together. Now this work has been brought into normal management.
Not only is the river chief busy, but the construction unit of the second phase project of Gurao Sewage Treatment Plant also has employees sticking to their posts. Huang Chuwen, a member of the Party Committee of Gurao Town, told the reporter that on the first day of the New Year’s Day, there were still 11 employees at the construction site of the second phase of Gurao Sewage Treatment Plant who gave up the Spring Festival holiday and fought for the front line. Most of them come from Hunan, Sichuan and other places, and stick to their posts only to ensure the steady progress of infrastructure equipment installation and pipe network laying in the factory.
Village-level river chiefs in Xiaodongjiang Town, Maoming patrol the river for 3 hours every day.
Not only Lianjiang, but also Xiaodongjiang, a tributary of Jianjiang, is also tackling the problem of eliminating inferior V water bodies.
"According to the goal set by the province, efforts should be made to improve the Xiaodongjiang River from the inferior V water body to the V water body this year." Xie Kairong, who is patrolling the river near Xiaodongjiang, said. Xie Kairong is the party secretary and township-level river chief of Aotou Town, Maonan District, Maoming City. Since the third day of the year, the town and village river chiefs in Aotou Town have been patrolling the river every day. "Patrol the river for about 3 hours every day to see if the river is clean, and also remind children playing by the river to pay attention to safety." Since the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Xie Kairong has toured the reaches of Meihuajiang, Xiaodongjiang and Helinhe. During the Spring Festival, many rural sages also returned to their hometowns. Xie Kairong took this opportunity to mobilize rural sages to donate money and contribute to water control.
Not only the long river patrol, but also the means of sewage treatment and ecological restoration are applied to the treatment of Xiaodongjiang River. During the Spring Festival, in Pengcun Lake, Maonan District, Maoming City, canna and other plants are flourishing in an artificial wetland covering an area of more than 20 mu. The construction party, Huang Gong of Shenzhen Biyuan Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd., is starting the grid machine to separate the garbage flowing into the wetland water. Huang Gong said that he was on duty in the wetland during the Spring Festival. "We are stepping up the acceptance of this project and strive to complete the acceptance and handover in March this year, which will have an early effect."
The filtered water from Pengcun Lake constructed wetland finally flows into Xiaodongjiang River, effectively improving the water quality of Shi Bi section of Xiaodongjiang River. Next, around Pengcun Lake, Maoming will also build 57 village-level sewage treatment stations to further reduce the sewage discharge in villages and towns.
In Maoming, another national examination section-Jianjiang Jiangkoumen section, Huazhou city in the upper reaches is also stepping up governance. In the high and low drainage channels of the Maoling River in Huazhou, 27 container-sized tanks are neatly stacked into two floors like building blocks, and the tanks are connected by large and small pipes, making it a sewage treatment plant with a treatment capacity of 30,000 tons. On-site personnel Huang Zhenlin and Hu Yu are checking the operation of the equipment. They are also on duty in the factory during the Spring Festival. "We two take turns and are on duty 24 hours a day."
Wu Haoguang, director of the Environmental Protection Bureau of Huazhou City, said that in order to ensure that the cross section of the downstream river mouth reaches the standard, Huazhou City invested nearly 60 million yuan to install and operate this integrated intensive treatment facility beside the high and low drainage channels. The monitoring data show that the main pollutants such as ammonia nitrogen and total phosphorus in the water quality of Jiangkoumen section have dropped significantly since last year. "This year has had a very good start. Now the water quality of Jiangkoumen section has reached Class III or above, and most indicators have reached Class I and Class II or above. Jianjiang water quality is expected to reach the best in recent years."