JVE's workers to take samples of water in the To Lich river in Hanoi (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The Japan Environment and BusinessOrganisation (JEBO) has said it is willing to pay all costs to clean theheavily polluted To Lich River and West Lake in Hanoi following a remark by anenvironment official saying the firm's sewage treatment technology had failed.
The organisation, which wasbehind a pilot project to clean up the river and lake this summer, said it is preparedto pay in full for the treatment technologies and will rent them to Hanoiauthorities once they were proved to be successful.
Hanoi would then take charge of the management and operation of the cleansingsystem, JEBO said.
JEBO, in coordination with the Japan-Vietnam Environment Company (JVE), kickedoff a pilot project in May to clean a short section of To Lich River and partof West Lake using Japanese nano-bioreactor technology.
The project run for three months before being wrapped up with a stunt when aproject member immersed himself in the filtered water from the river toprove the success of the project in August.
However, Le Van Duc, Director of the Hanoi Department of Construction whichoversees the capital’s sewage system, said JVE had been invited to carry outthe pilot project in the capital city but “it failed”.
The comment sparked a protest from JEBO, which claimed on December 1 that whatthe construction director said was “baseless”, and “opposite to the conclusionby the municipal People’s Committee”.
The To Lich River has been a symbol of environmental pollution in the capitalfor decades despite several efforts to save it since the 1990s.
The blame has been placed on the 150,000 cubic metres of raw sewage releaseddaily into the 14km-long river, according to statistics by the municipalDepartment of Environment and Natural Resources.
Apart from the Japanese project using nano-bioreactor technology to removecontaminants, Hanoi authorities were also working on two other solutions toclean the river.
One was to build a system to collect the sewage which would then be transferredto the Yen Xa wastewater treatment plant. Construction of the system, however,has lagged behind schedule and won't be ready until 2021.
The other solution was to treat the water chemically using Redoxy-3C, astrong oxidizer which can degrade almost all inorganic and organic impuritiesin water. It has already been used in 87 lakes in Hanoi since2016.
The Redoxy-3C treatment, however, was being inspected following complaints overa lack of transparency in Hanoi’s purchase of the chemical. Thecity Inspectorate was due to release the inspection report on July 15 butso far nothing has been published.
The city inspector chief Nguyen An Huy told reporters on December 4 morningthat the inspectors were still in the middle of the work and would announce theconclusion as soon as it was available./,
The organisation, which wasbehind a pilot project to clean up the river and lake this summer, said it is preparedto pay in full for the treatment technologies and will rent them to Hanoiauthorities once they were proved to be successful.
Hanoi would then take charge of the management and operation of the cleansingsystem, JEBO said.
JEBO, in coordination with the Japan-Vietnam Environment Company (JVE), kickedoff a pilot project in May to clean a short section of To Lich River and partof West Lake using Japanese nano-bioreactor technology.
The project run for three months before being wrapped up with a stunt when aproject member immersed himself in the filtered water from the river toprove the success of the project in August.
However, Le Van Duc, Director of the Hanoi Department of Construction whichoversees the capital’s sewage system, said JVE had been invited to carry outthe pilot project in the capital city but “it failed”.
The comment sparked a protest from JEBO, which claimed on December 1 that whatthe construction director said was “baseless”, and “opposite to the conclusionby the municipal People’s Committee”.
The To Lich River has been a symbol of environmental pollution in the capitalfor decades despite several efforts to save it since the 1990s.
The blame has been placed on the 150,000 cubic metres of raw sewage releaseddaily into the 14km-long river, according to statistics by the municipalDepartment of Environment and Natural Resources.
Apart from the Japanese project using nano-bioreactor technology to removecontaminants, Hanoi authorities were also working on two other solutions toclean the river.
One was to build a system to collect the sewage which would then be transferredto the Yen Xa wastewater treatment plant. Construction of the system, however,has lagged behind schedule and won't be ready until 2021.
The other solution was to treat the water chemically using Redoxy-3C, astrong oxidizer which can degrade almost all inorganic and organic impuritiesin water. It has already been used in 87 lakes in Hanoi since2016.
The Redoxy-3C treatment, however, was being inspected following complaints overa lack of transparency in Hanoi’s purchase of the chemical. Thecity Inspectorate was due to release the inspection report on July 15 butso far nothing has been published.
The city inspector chief Nguyen An Huy told reporters on December 4 morningthat the inspectors were still in the middle of the work and would announce theconclusion as soon as it was available./,
VNA
