VietNamNet Bridge – Spending
billions of dong to buy villas at high grade residential quarters, but
thousands of households at five residential quarters in districts 8 and Binh
Chanh in HCM City still have to live in serious pollution.
Spending
multi-billion dong to receive bad odors
The Binh Hung waste water treatment plant, which was
built in an aim to keep the environment clean, turns out to be the environment
polluter. The plant gives terrible smell, threatening the daily life of
thousands of households.
In fact, local residents have been living together with
the pollution over the last year already. One year ago, they lodged complaints
about the terrible smell to local authorities. However, no improvement has been
made so far, while the Binh Hung waste water treatment plant has not taken any
actions to settle the problem.
As the pollution has become unbearably serious, more than
100 households flocked to the Binh Hung plant on June 26 to express their
protest, causing big noise in the area.
Ngo Thien Kim, who lives at Dai Phuc residential quarter,
said that she spent billions of dong to buy land, villas and houses here to be
able to enjoy good landscape and breathe fresh air, not to receive the terrible
smell.
“No one could imagine before that a waste water treatment
plant would be located next to the residential quarters. The thing that you
meet first every day when you get up is the terrible odor,” she said.
Nguyen Thanh Son, a local resident, complained that he
always suffers headache because of the terrible smell. Meanwhile, children and
old people, who stay at home all the day, are the biggest sufferers.
The residential quarter project developers have also
complained that their business has been performing badly because of the waste
water treatment plant. A lot of people contacted the investors to buy
apartments or villas here, but they have left after hearing about the smell.
The air pollution in the area has badly affected the
business of real estate developers. Real estate developers have to spend
multi-billion of dong to build modern infrastructure and provide modern
material facilities to attract people. However, their investments prove to be
in vain.
Temporary solution applied, long term solution not found
On May 31, Ly Tho Dac, Deputy Director of MTV Water
Drainage Company in HCM City, sent a document to the city’s authorities and
relevant branches, defending the Binh Hung plant in the case of discharging bad
odor to the environment.
According to Dac, Binh Hung plant is a part of the
project on improving the water environment in HCM City, which is in charge of
treating the waste water from four districts of the city with the total
population of 425,000 people.
Dac said that the company has been using some bio-products
to ease the terrible smell, but this has not helped much. It is now the rainy
season, when the air temperature levels inside and outside the plant are
different, paving the way for the arising polluted air to escape to the
environment.
He also said that the input organic substance content has
been increasing, thus leading to the higher organic substance content in the
mud generated after the water processing. This is also a reason behind the
increase of the bad odor.
The waste water treatment plant has promised to apply
some temporary measures to minimize the bad odor. However, the promise has not
satisfied local residents, who said that this is just a temporary solution,
while they need long term solution.
Source: Lao dong
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