Nearly 200 households in Dong Nai Province's Long Thanh District and Bien Hoa City are still waiting to receive compensation from Sonadezi Long Thanh Company for the impact its substandard waste water discharges had on their aquaculture farming and fruit growing areas.
Nearly 200 households in southern Dong Nai Province's Long Thanh District and Bien Hoa City are still waiting to receive compensation from Sonadezi Long Thanh Company for the impact its substandard waste water discharges had on their aquaculture farming and fruit growing areas.
Residents in Tam An and Tam Phuoc communes filed complaints with local authorities demanding more than VND16 billion (US$768,000) in compensation from the company seven months ago when the company was discovered discharging untreated waste water into Ba Cheo canal which flows into Dong Nai river.
People's Committee Chairman of Tam An Commune Vo Van Luat said that the pollution caused by the company's waste water had killed a mass of fish and disrupted farming for nearly 200 households in surrounding areas.
"However, we still have to wait for a conclusion about the level of environmental and agricultural damage caused by the company from provincial authorities and related agencies to define the level and method of compensation," he said.
Sonadezi Long Thanh, which is responsible for treating waste water for 42 companies in Long Thanh Industrial Park in southern Dong Nai Province, was found discharging 9,300 cubic metres of untreated waste water into the river via three underground pipelines in August.
The company was fined VND405 million (US$19,440) for violating the environmental protection law.
According to the Environmental Police Department, the company had discharged 14 million cu.m of untreated waste into Dong Nai river over the past five years.
(Source: VNS)
