Vietnam Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing Limited in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang has owned up responsibility for polluting the environment, affecting nearby households.
Vietnam Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing Limited in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang has admitted to polluting the environment, affecting nearby households, during a dry run of its waste treatment plant (Photo: VNA)
HauGiang (VNA) - Vietnam Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing Limited in theMekong Delta province of Hau Giang has owned up responsibility for polluting theenvironment, affecting nearby households.
ChungWaifu, the company’s General Director, has sent a report to the Ministry ofNatural Resources and Environment’s inspection team about the pollution,including during a trial run of its waste treatment plant on March 7, theprovince’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment has said.
Init, the company admits to causing noise, dust and a bad odour affecting nearbyhouseholds.
Thepollution was caused by coal dust from a coal warehouse.
Thecompany plans to install anti-dust nets around the warehouse and plant treesbehind it to prevent the dust from blowing around the neighbourhood. The workis expected to be completed by April 17.
Soundproofing will be done to reduce the noise from its coal-fuelled power plantbefore April 13.
Thecompany will also set up a deodorising machine to neutralise the smellemanating from a fry-mud storage and mud tank at its wastewater treatmentplant.
TheMái Dầm Town People’s Committee said around 60 households were affected by thestench.
LeThi Hong, 50, a resident of the town in Chau Thanh district, said she is afraidthe malodour and coal dust would threaten the health of her family, especiallyher five year-old niece.
NguyenVan Thai, 63, who lives near the Mai Dam River in the town’s Phu Xuan commune,said the stench and noise have reduced, but he is still worried about the waterpollution. Many local residents get itches when they use the river water forwashing, he said.
DaoTrong Ngu, Director of the province’s Centre for Environmental Monitoring, saidthe centre’s facilities are linked to an automatic environmental monitoringstation at the company for monitoring data.
Thedepartment is developing an automatic environmental monitoring system in theprovince.
Lastmonth the ministry asked the company to furnish details of its trial operationof the treatment plant after the media reported about complaints by localresidents.
Italso sought the province’s collaboration in monitoring the plant’s trialoperation.-VNA
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Vietnam Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing Limited in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang has admitted to polluting the environment, affecting nearby households, during a dry run of its waste treatment plant (Photo: VNA) 
