Factory fire latex paint into the river, Xi'an Taiping River into the "white river"

China Paint Network
News: April 9 at 12 noon, from Xi'an City, near the Taiping River near the citizen Mr. Zhang found that the Taiping River and the past is very different, "normally the river is clear, now how to become milky white?"
Factory fire waste water will be
latex paint
into the river
Mr. Zhang, who lives in Wangji Street on April 9 noon saw the Taiping River strange, feel very strange, he walked along the Taiping River upstream for a kilometer, found that the river is still a milky white.
continued until about 2 p.m. on 9 April. China Business Daily reporters at the scene saw that the river is full of white floating objects, stretching for several kilometers. Not only that, but the air was full of strong pungent smells. Why is this happening?
, a staff member of the Taiping River Channel Management Center in Xi'an, said that in the morning, a factory near Taiping Cross on Fish Doo Road caught fire and some plastic containers were stored in the factory. Firefighters in the process of fighting, the source of the fire was washed out, fire waste water will be burned in the plastic container stored latex paint washed out, because the plant is located on the banks of the Taiping River, waste water with rinsed latex paint into the river, so that the river formed a layer of white floating matter.
Has been emergency water dilution to ensure that no pollution of the Weihe River
It is understood that the fire occurred on April 9 at 8 a.m., around 8:40 a.m., the public security and fire departments organized more than 10 fire trucks rushed to the scene to carry out the fight, at about 9:20 a.m., the open fire was completely extinguished. According to the villagers, the factory usually has no people, but piles up some large plastic buckets and other things, the pungent smell is these items after burning out. Yesterday afternoon, China Business Daily reporter learned that the storage of plastic containers in the workshop area of about 200 square meters, no explosion, no casualties. Xi'an Environmental Protection Bureau on-site testing, the residual odor in the air and floating objects in the river will not cause poisoning, will not affect the health of the surrounding people.
Taiping River is nearly 30 kilometers long, originated near the river pool, flowing to the WeiHe River, is a high-energy area and Dongdong New Town rainwater sewage river, do not assume the task of water supply. On April 9, after the river was contaminated with wastewater and latex paint, the water department urgently drained the water from the canal and allowed the sewage treatment plant downstream of the Taiping River to treat the river in a timely manner to ensure that it did not affect the river.