Front door ecological farms, back door sewage discharge! Nongjiale has become a blind spot in pollution regulation.

An ecological farm built on the embankment, the four courtyard residential form, the yard green grass, the yard from the kitchen after the kitchen connected out of a sewage pipe straight into the river.

It is worthwhile to envision a weekend where the family drives to an eco-friendly farm far from the city to experience the countryside and savor the taste of farmhouse delicacies. When we leave the body and mind relaxed, but left directly to the farmland, the river black odor wastewater, you will do how to feel?

Nowadays, all kinds of farms and ecological farms are blossoming, and have become popular for rural tourism. Half Moon Talk reporter recently investigated in the field in many places, found that a lot of agricultural music "front door ecological, back door sewage" problem is prominent, pollution prevention and control and supervision lagging behind. Some labeled "ecological" farms do not live up to their name, sewage discharge into a stinking ditch, smoke emissions into the "black earth".

Ecological farms may not be "ecological", wastewater and oil discharge

Industrial scenery, green ecology, soil chicken and soil food ...... This is a lot of farms, farms played the "propaganda language". Recently, the half-moon talk reporter went into the Dongting Lake District, a county built on the riverbank of an ecological farm. Farm is a courtyard residential form, there are more than 10 boxes, the courtyard green grass, the river terrace cool breeze, pleasant environment. Through the courtyard to the back of the kitchen, visible a length of about 4 meters, covered with blue colored steel tiles, some hidden pipeline straight to the river, the end of the pipeline out of the water is obviously dirty.

A farm around the county, kitchen sewage, waste discharged for a long time to a small pond, piled up black or yellow wet, sticky dirt, next to the rice paddies and an irrigation canal adjacent.

In response, the farm's staff said in disbelief, "The kitchen sewage is discharged this way, and it is washed away as soon as the water rises."

A farm closer to a county, the sewage scene is even more alarming. When the half-moon talk reporter asked the owner of the farm, how the sewage discharge? The woman boss replied, "We discharge to the sewer." But when the reporter walked behind the kitchen, a stench came face to face, only to see the side of a small pond, piled up with black or yellow wet, slimy dirt. On one side of the pond, there are rice paddies and an irrigation canal - which is known as the "sewer".

In another mountainous township, the annual spring flower-viewing season is the peak tourist season, and there is a steady stream of tourists coming here to play. A farmhouse called "center of the local dishes," the reception capacity of more than 20 tables. Half-moon talk reporter saw, this farmhouse hood oil, dishwashing water, toilet sewage "three sewage" all into the side of the canal. Nongjiale on all sides are farmland, early rice is growing green, these blackened wastewater into the irrigation water into the field.

Similar pollution is not an isolated case. A person in charge of environmental protection department frankly said that the current rural environmental pollution, farmhouse, farm wastewater, exhaust gas, oil smoke, solid waste is an important source of pollution. "Many farms are discharging pollutants directly in order to maximize profits."

A farmhouse that specializes in "local chicken and local food" discharges its kitchen wastewater directly into a canal behind the house, where black, greasy dirt has formed over the years.

Shuguang Environmental Protection is a private environmental public welfare organization in Hunan province. This year, they launched a study on water pollution in farmhouses. Tan Yongchao, director of the water program, said his team members have visited more than 20 farmhouses and found that toilet sewage is usually treated in septic tanks, while most of the kitchen wastewater is discharged directly.

April, Shuguang environmental protection of Changsha around an ecological farm outlet wastewater samples were sampled and sent to the test, the test items include suspended solids, chemical oxygen demand, total phosphorus, total nitrogen, ammonia nitrogen. According to the test report, if compared to the urban sewage treatment plant pollutant discharge standards, the sample of a number of indicators seriously exceeded the standard. For example, the chemical oxygen demand of 373 mg / liter, is more than 7 times the first A standard, is more than 3 times the third standard.

"I pollute but I do not govern", environmental protection can only rely on "awareness"?

Tourism season or weekend holidays, some of the farms, eco-farms popularity, the operator earned a lot of money. But when it comes to environmental protection, they are often "not a matter of concern, hanging high", the prevention and control of pollution basically can only rely on "awareness".

In the interviews, Nongjiale operators generally showed two typical mentality. One mentality is that "the law is not responsible for all". An eco-farm boss pointed to the pipeline discharged directly into the village canal, said unapologetically: "sewage is not treated and discharged directly into the canal, in the countryside everyone is doing this, there is no impact."

A mentality of "I pollute, the government pays". Half Moon Talk reporter asked a number of operators found that they generally lack the "who pollutes, who governs" concept, that pollution control is the government's business. The owner of the farm near the county said that the removal of waste water and waste oil to thousands of dollars, not cost-effective, should be paid by the government. She also complained that the village did not clean up her farm's sewage pond when it dredged the canal.

In a village famous for its spring flowers, a farmhouse in a rice paddy is "triple-polluted" with grease from hoods, dishwashing water and sewage from toilets, and the blackened wastewater flows directly into the irrigation canal.

On the other hand, there is a lack of constraints and regulation of pollution in some places. A local environmental protection bureau chief said, the past rural environmental improvement focus on "visible garbage", engaged in villages, schools, road cleaning project, but in the air, water, soil pollution "root cause" is not enough attention. According to the regulations, the construction of ecological farms should be carried out environmental impact assessment, but the local area in this area is basically a blank.

In 2017, the Hunan Linli County Environmental Protection Bureau once investigated an ecological farm project, found that its construction in the absence of environmental impact assessment approval procedures, in the case of pollution control facilities are not supporting the case into operation, and to make administrative penalties. But similar cases are not rare, and most of the farm operators interviewed by the Half Moon Talk reporter said they had not carried out EIAs, and inspections of environmental health rarely involve issues such as smoke extraction, drainage and exhaust.

Relatively speaking, star farms are doing better in terms of environmental protection. In an area of more than 80 acres, an investment of tens of millions of five-star farms, sewage purification tanks, smoke purifiers and other facilities are readily available, designed and installed by professional environmental protection companies. The owner of the farm said that the star rating has a clear environmental requirements, so they carried out an environmental assessment, the construction of pollution control facilities.

A five-star farms, environmental protection to do better, the construction of sewage purification tanks, smoke purifiers and other facilities.

Nongjiajia "multi-point blossoming", environmental protection should also "step by step to keep up"

With the rise of rural tourism, regional tourism, Nongjiajiajia, eco-farms show Half Moon Talk reporter learned that in recent years, in the suburbs of the city, reservoirs, wetlands, scenic areas and other key areas, farmhouse is gradually into the supervision and remediation of the scope of the environmental pollution problem began to spread to some remote counties and townships, the emerging rural tourist attractions.

Liu Shuai, director of the supervision department of the Hunan Provincial People's Congress Environmental Resources Commission, said that at present, in developed areas such as the Yangtze River Delta and other major cities around the pollution prevention and control of agricultural music is doing better, but many other places in this regard is still very weak, and should further attention should be paid to strengthen the management.

Liu Shuai believes that it is necessary to explore the rural pollution management model according to local conditions, such as the construction of artificial wetlands and septic tanks "upgraded" in villages with dispersed populations. In the construction and operation of the farmhouse, the environmental impact assessment system should be implemented at the front end, and at the end of the joint agriculture, tourism and other departments to increase environmental enforcement.

Hengyang County Environmental Protection Bureau deputy director Wang Gao Liang said that this year, the local environmental protection department will be the focus of rural environmental remediation, requiring the standardization of the installation of fumes and sewage treatment facilities in the farmhouse, to promote the construction of suitable for the rural areas of the four-cell sewage purification tank, "artificial wetlands + oxidation ponds," etc., the basic requirement is not to be discharged directly. If Nongjiale fails to meet the environmental requirements, a rectification letter will be issued and penalties will be imposed.

Liu Hongli, director general of Shuguang Environmental Protection, suggests that, for agro-industrial and ecological farms, the principle of "who pollutes, who governs" should be adhered to. At the same time, the government can also introduce guiding measures, like the rectification of breeding pollution, according to the size of the farm, the construction of pollution control facilities to give some subsidies, starting with the new farms, star farms, and then gradually solve the problem of the stock of pollution.

Source:? Half-Moon Talk