Chungnam, Special Crackdown on Summer Season Environmental Pollutant Emissions

[Asia Economy (Naepo) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Chungnam Province announced on the 22nd that from this month until August, it will conduct special monitoring and crackdowns on environmental pollution acts targeting pollutant-emitting business sites within the province during the heavy rainfall period of the monsoon season.

The crackdown targets 60 locations, including business sites with water quality discharge facilities installed in the Ingye water system area of major rivers within the province, sites repeatedly complained about for unauthorized wastewater discharge, and sites emitting hazardous wastewater.

The main inspection items include ▲whether discharge and prevention facilities have been reported for installation ▲whether discharge and prevention facilities are operating normally ▲whether discharge and prevention facilities are left broken or damaged ▲unauthorized discharge of environmental pollutants, etc.

The province plans to take strong measures such as administrative and judicial actions against business sites where intentional violations such as unauthorized wastewater discharge and abnormal operation of discharge and prevention facilities are detected during this special crackdown.

In addition, around the end of August when the monsoon season ends, the province will deploy professional personnel from the Daejeon Chungnam Environmental Conservation Association to business sites where prevention facilities have been damaged by heavy rainfall, providing technical support to encourage facility restoration.

A provincial official said, “We will continuously patrol and crack down on pollution-prone areas until August to prevent and block illegal activities in advance.”

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