Pollution Alert on Wastewater Leakage

 

 

RAYONG, Nov 2 (TNA) – The director-general of the Pollution Control Department inspected a waste treatment plant in the eastern province and will impose a pollution control area and sue a company for wastewater leakage. 

 

Attapon Charoenchansa, the director-general, said Natural Resources and Environment Minister Varawut Silpa-archa ordered the department to examine the compound of Win Process Co for discharging wastewater in the way that affected farmland and surface water and killed rubber trees. 

 

Concerned officials decided to set a perimeter of an affected area based on surveys on the quality of soil and water.

 

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A health hazard is one thing, but killing a rubber tree is unforgivable. 

5 minutes ago, yellowboat said:

A health hazard is one thing, but killing a rubber tree is unforgivable. 

 

It wont bounce back ?

ironic given that rubber trees pretty much kill off everything else natural!

4 hours ago, yellowboat said:

A health hazard is one thing, but killing a rubber tree is unforgivable. 

Sacrilege.. 

Seriously folks, this has apparently been an on-going problem for years and I quote from "EARTH" (ecological alert and recovery - Thailand):-

 

06 June 2020 | Reported by EARTH

After repeated complaints to several government agencies over the past ten years by Nong Pawa villagers in Bang But subdistrict, Ban Khai district of Rayong province, who have been affected by chronic water pollution caused by Win Process Company’s recycling factories, the local residents have witnessed that their decade-long polluting problems in the area remain unsolved.

The villagers said they have been suffering for more than ten years due to untreated wastewater discharged by Win Process Company, which causes flooding in their agriculture land, and their rubber trees have died standing. They also complain about foul smelling odour in the area. The polluted environment also has severe impacts not only on their economics but also their health.