A printing and dyeing enterprise in Zhejiang faces criminal prosecution for its wastewater exceeding the standard by 71%
Recently, when checking the historical data of automatic wastewater monitoring flow, the Zhuji Branch of Shaoxing Municipal Ecological Environment Bureau found that since March 2021, a printing and dyeing company in Zhejiang has been experiencing abnormal phenomena of regular fluctuations.
After further analysis, law enforcement officers found that the company’s average daily sewage discharge has gradually increased since the end of 2020. By March 2021, the average daily sewage discharge had increased by nearly 50%, but the company’s corresponding Sewage treatment facilities have not been expanded or renovated, so it is inferred that there may be illegal sewage discharge.
On April 6, 2021, the law enforcement officers of Zhuji Branch and the public security conducted a surprise inspection of the company and found that the on-site situation was completely consistent with the data research and analysis. Law enforcement officers conducted overnight inquiries and investigations on the management and operators of the company’s sewage treatment station. The findings are as follows: Since the end of last year, due to an increase in business orders, the company’s sewage discharge has exceeded the processing capacity of the existing sewage treatment facilities. In order to avoid the automatic monitoring system of pollution sources, the company uses manual operation of the lifting pump and main valve to control the concentration of sewage, so that the COD concentration in the automatic monitoring data always remains around 170 mg/L, while the actual sampling test is 343 mg/L, which exceeds the “Textile Dyeing and Finishing” Industrial water pollutants Discharge Standards” meet the limit requirements, with an exceeding rate of 71%.
This behavior violated the provisions of Article 1, Item (7) of the Interpretation of Several Issues Concerning the Application of Laws in the Handling of Criminal Cases of Environmental Pollution by the Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate. At present, the public security organs are still continuing to investigate the case, and the three main suspects have been criminally detained.
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Article 1(7) of the Interpretation of the Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in Handling Criminal Cases of Environmental Pollution
Anyone who commits an act stipulated in Article 338 of the Criminal Law under any of the following circumstances shall be deemed as “seriously polluting the environment”:
(7) Key pollutant discharge units tamper with or falsify automatic monitoring data or interfere with automatic monitoring facilities to discharge chemical oxygen demand, ammonia nitrogen, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and other pollutants;
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This case is a case in which the ecological environment department, based on big data analysis and judgment to identify clues to illegal pollutant discharge, jointly conducted a surprise investigation with the public security organs and discovered a case that interfered with the automatic monitoring facilities of pollution sources and discharged pollutants beyond the standard. It is necessary to promote “off-site” supervision methods with “digital empowerment”, strengthen the analysis and judgment of ecological environment data, and improve the ability to detect environmental problems.
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