Human interference with environmental monitoring, the company's supervisor is sentenced to sent

Sewage treatment enterprises purchase the "COD removal agent" (COD full name Chemical Oxygen Demand, generally refers to chemical oxygen demand for oxygen) to add at the end of the sewage treatment, interfere with automatic monitoring facilities, and artificially reduce COD monitoring data. On June 2nd, Changxing Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. and Xia Mou's pollution environment in the Huzhou City Procuratorate of Zhejiang Province were tried in the Hunzhou Intermediate Court. The court sentenced the court to the crime of polluting the environment. The defendant Changxing's environmental protection technology Co., Ltd. was fined 200,000 yuan, and the company was in charge of Xiamou in prison for one year, one year and six months in suspended sentences, and a fine of 20,000 yuan.

Changxing Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. is a local sewage treatment enterprise. From March to May 2020, the company has three consecutive times due to exceeding water pollutant emissions standards or exceeding the total water pollutant emission control index discharged water pollutants. Fined more than 1.2 million yuan.

For the company's "interests", from December 2020 to January 2021, the company purchased the so -called "COD removal agent" 7 times, and Xiaomou, the company's supervisor, personally or instructed the company employees to invest "COD removal agent" illegally vote for illegal investment Add to the end of the sewage treatment.

It is reported that COD is the amount of restored substances that need to be oxidized in water samples in a chemical method. In the research of river pollution and industrial wastewater, and the operation management of wastewater treatment plants, it is an important and fast -determined organic pollution parameter. After identification, the main component of the "COD removal agent" used by Changxing Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. is sodium chloride, which cannot really remove the COD in the water. It just interferes with the processing process of the online monitoring facility, so that the measurement results are low.

On the evening of May 12, 2021, the local environmental protection department inspected the company on the spot, and the illegal act was verified on the spot. On May 17 of the same year, the local environmental protection department transferred to the company's suspected pollution of environmental criminal clues to the Changxing County Public Security Bureau, and transferred evidence such as on -site investigation transcripts and monitoring reports. The public security organs shall investigate the company and the project in charge of the project and the project in charge of the project for suspected pollution, and transfer to the Changxing County Procuratorate on December 30 of the same year for review and prosecution.

In view of the social impact of the case and belonging to a new type of case, the Huzhou Procuratorate made a decision on rearing. On May 11 this year, the case was submitted to the Huzhou City Procuratorate for review and prosecution by the Changxing County Procuratorate. The Huzhou Procuratorate was reviewed and filed a public prosecution on the case in accordance with the law. The court made the above judgment after trial.

According to Huang Hui, the prosecutor of the case and the prosecutor of the Huzhou Procuratorate, in accordance with relevant national regulations and monitoring specifications, key sewage discharge units must install and use automatic monitoring facilities and ensure normal operation. , Reduce the cost of environmental law enforcement, and improve the efficiency of hyperbench -standard rectification. However, the sewage treatment enterprise artificially reduces monitoring data through interference monitoring. This approach will not only affect the effectiveness of administrative law enforcement, but also add "COD removal agents" in sewage treatment. In this regard, the Changxing County Procuratorate has commissioned Zhejiang Province Ecological Environmental Science Design Research Institute to evaluate, and the next step will be filed by civil public interest lawsuits according to the situation.

(Source: Procuratorial Daily Author: Fan Yuehonglou, Xixia Zhu Xinhang)

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