Tailings of Longnan city Gansu province informed excessive leak disposition

Longnan tailings spill, the Environmental Protection Department has started investigation procedures of environmental emergencies (source: vision, China) Wang Lin is evidence there is a State secret Media

Official website of Longnan city, Gansu province, the municipal government through its informed today "11·24" Xihe long star antimony industry limited liability company tailings disposal of tailings spill.

Reported on November 24, 2015 at 9 o'clock in the morning, Xihe star antimony company ya long Wan Shan Qing tailings leak damaged overflow well, second clapboard sand. Following a preliminary investigation, about 3000 cubic meters of sand overflows, Tai Shi River into the water of Western Han dynasty.

Informed the show through 28th, at 3 o'clock on sweet water junction of Shaanxi and the Western Han dynasty village water quality sampling analysis, characteristic excessive pollutants detected antimony 18.6 times times and polluted rivers have entered the territory of Shaanxi Province.

Reported that at present, found no unsafe drinking water problems of the masses.

But due to TRANS-provincial pollution caused, Longnan city official said, and will communicate with Shaanxi Hanzhong city information, do a water safe disposal support.

This pollution incident attracted the attention of the Ministry of environmental protection. After the incident, immediately dispatched supervision centers in the Northwest and southwest of the Department of environmental protection supervision Center 2 working groups, namely Sichuan guangan to Gansu and South to coordinate the local government site management and emergency preparedness.

Today, the official website announced that the Department of environmental protection, and response to the spill, the Environmental Protection Department has started investigation procedures of environmental emergencies. On 27th, Zhai Qing, Vice Minister of emergency led working groups and experts rushed to the scene to provide reinforcement survey.

According to informed the Ministry of environmental protection, pollution incidents occurred on the night of November 23, because the company's concentrator tailings dam overflow well about 6 metres below the surface of rupture of arch ring cover, resulting in overflow well around the tailings slurry flows too shihe.

Informed the Ministry of environmental protection of the display, too Rock River after water has entered the territory of lueyang County, Shaanxi Province in Western Han dynasty, pollutants currently being blocked inside the gourd head hydropower station reservoir area in lueyang, gourd head hydropower station downstream water quality has not been exceeded. By monitoring excess characteristic pollutants for antimony.