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To: RealMuLan who wrote (5817)	4/12/2006 8:11:17 PM
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Officials sacked for lake pollution Ji Mi 2006-04-07 FOUR more government officials in Baoding, Hebei Province, were punished for permitting pollution of a lake - known as the "Pearl of North China," China's environment watchdog agency said yesterday. Nearly 15 million yuan (US$1.87 million) worth of fish died in the heavily polluted Baiyangdian Lake early this year. And fishermen suffered grave loss of income. It's the largest freshwater body in north China. Among the four punished, authorities sacked a deputy governor of Mancheng County and the county's environment chief, the State Environment Protection Administration said. The administration didn't give the two officials' names. The county's 156 papermaking factories discharged a daily 80,000 tons of waste into tributaries of the Baiyangdian Lake. The sewage treatment plant in the county can handle only 30,000 tons, said the state environment agency. Baoding has shut and ordered reduced operation and sewage discharge at 218 polluting businesses, mostly papermakers, SEPA said in a statement. The city also punished another 11 polluting businesses, it said, without elaboration. The downtown Baoding dumps 250,000 tons of household and industrial waste water into the Fuhe River every day. But only 160,000 tons are treated, according to a joint team of investigators from the SEPA, the Ministry of Agriculture and Hebei's provincial government. The river also flows into the lake. In addition, another 12 counties and cities in the upper reaches of the lake have no sewage treatment plant, the SEPA said. In late March, Baoding authorities sacked three top environment officials of Baoding's Xinshi District and recorded a top-tier demerit for the district governor, who quit. There are 28 papermaking factories in the district. Only one of them discharges pollutants according to the state standard, SEPA said. A drought late last year exacerbated the water shortage in the lake, making pollutant content extremely high, it said. In February and March, Anxin County suffered 23.9 million yuan worth of economic losses from the polluted lake, including 15 million yuan loss to fish farmers. About 85 percent of the lake is in Anxin County. Covering 366 square kilometers, Baiyangdian is made up of 143 smaller lakes. shanghaidaily.com