Dong Nai province will spend VND40 billion installing four automatic monitors for industrial wastewater and two for exhaust emissions, aiming to control pollution at industrial parks and residential areas.
Dong Nai province will spend VND40 billion installing four automatic monitors for industrial wastewater and two for exhaust emissions, aiming to control pollution at industrial parks and residential areas.
Nguyen Hoang Hung, director of the environmental technology and monitoring center of Dong Nai province, said at a conference in HCMC on Tuesday that these monitors would help the province better control pollution in the locality.
The province has 22 operational industrial parks with a total wastewater discharge of around 70,000 cubic meters a day. The province also wants to install these monitors in all industrial parks by 2015, he said at the event held by the Vietnam Environment Administration (VEA).
Currently, there are five industrial parks having already installed the automatic monitors, namely Loteco, Bien Hoa 2, Tam Phuoc, Bau Xeo and Nhon Trach 3 industrial parks. In addition, six enterprises have fitted such devices at their facilities, comprising Fujitsu Vietnam, Ajinomoto Vietnam, Phuong Nam Weaving and Dying Co., Hualon, Formosa and Vedan.
Hung said all readings at enterprises and industrial parks would have to be transferred regularly to the provincial center for wastewater control.
Over the past years, enterprises have given their own readings as well but their objectivity has been doubted. Some enterprises even add clean water to wastewater to lower the concentration of pollutants.
Dang Van Loi, deputy director of the Department of Pollution Control under VEA said that industrial parks nationwide emitted nearly two million cubic meters of wastewater into the environment a day, with more than half of it untreated.
All industrial parks will be required to install automatic wastewater monitors in the future, Loi said.
(Source: SGT)
