In July 2021, Quanzhou Jinjiang Ecological Environment Bureau announced the first batch of six typical cases of “off-site law enforcement”, which played a good warning and deterrent effect. Since the second half of 2021, the overall situation has further expanded off-site supervision methods and applications. Use it as an important method of daily law enforcement and supervision, strengthen the “sentinel” role of automatic monitoring, actively use technological means such as drones and aerial vehicles to assist daily environmental law enforcement and supervision, and use intelligent control data anomaly warning information and drone evidence collection , navigation monitoring data and other means, a number of new types and new results of “off-site law enforcement” cases such as excessive emissions, data falsification, and abnormal operation of pollution control facilities were investigated and handled in accordance with the law.
Case: Using intelligent management and control data anomaly warning information to investigate and deal with a clothing washing company’s private hidden pipes and third-party operation and maintenance unit automatic monitoring data fraud cases
Brief introduction to the case
On August 11, 2021, during daily inspections, staff at the Information Center of Jinjiang Ecological Environment Bureau of Quanzhou City discovered that the automatic monitoring data of a clothing washing company in Jinjing Town since mid-July 2021 has appeared every few days. Fixed value. After preliminary judgment, there are obvious abnormalities in the company’s online monitoring data.
In order to avoid alerting the snake, the bureau immediately launched an “emergency” linkage verification and response mechanism for abnormal information. The Information Center of the Bureau immediately conducted a surprise inspection together with the Jinjiang Ecological Environmental Protection Comprehensive Law Enforcement Brigade and the Jinjing Squadron, and went straight to the company’s sewage treatment facilities and automatic monitoring stations to conduct inspections and verifications.
On-site inspection by law enforcement officers found that a mineral water bottle was placed behind the company’s automatic COD monitoring equipment, and the equipment’s sampling tube was inserted into the mineral water bottle to take samples.
After investigation, it was found that the submersible pump failure at the company’s wastewater discharge port caused the water quality sampler to be unable to normally take water samples from the wastewater discharge port and supply samples to the COD and ammonia nitrogen automatic monitoring equipment for testing.
After questioning the third-party operation and maintenance personnel, it was learned that from the submersible pump failure on July 13, 2021 to the on-site inspection on August 11, the third-party operation and maintenance personnel still did not take effective measures to repair the equipment failure for 29 days. Failure to report to the ecological environment department in a timely manner, and manual monitoring was not used during the failure period.
In particular, in order to save trouble, the third-party operation and maintenance personnel took mineral water bottles to the wastewater discharge outlet without authorization four times to manually take water samples and then placed them in the automatic monitoring station for sampling and testing by the automatic monitoring equipment. Each water sample was The average length of continuous storage is nearly 6 days.
During the inspection of the company’s sewage treatment facilities, law enforcement officers also discovered that the company had installed a “three-way” valve on the connecting pipe between the boiler dust removal pool and the sewage treatment facility’s clear pool without authorization, causing the boiler dust removal water to pass through the “three-way” valve. “External discharge is an act of illegally discharging wastewater through hidden pipes, so the two cases were investigated together.
Investigation and handling
In response to the environmental violations committed by the clothing washing company, law enforcement officers immediately conducted a comprehensive investigation and evidence collection on the company and the third-party operation and maintenance unit. The two environmental violations committed by the company were filed for investigation and transferred to administrative detention in accordance with the law.
1. The clothing washing company was suspected of setting up hidden pipes to evade supervision, which violated the provisions of Article 39 of the “Water Pollution Prevention and Control Law of the People’s Republic of China”. Quanzhou Jinjiang Ecological Environment Bureau imposed a fine of 109,000 yuan on the company in accordance with the law. And in accordance with Article 63 (3) of the Environmental Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China and Article 5 of the “Interim Measures for the Transfer of Environmental Violation Cases Suitable for Administrative Detention by Administrative Departments”, the company’s relevant responsible persons will be transferred to the public security organs for administrative detention. .
2. The third-party operation and maintenance unit is suspected of falsifying automatic pollution source monitoring data, which violates the provisions of Article 39 of the “Water Pollution Prevention and Control Law of the People’s Republic of China”. However, given that the water washing company responsible for operation and maintenance is not a key pollutant discharge unit, it The behavior is not suspected of environmental pollution. Quanzhou Jinjiang Ecological Environment Bureau imposed a fine of 109,000 yuan on the third-party operation and maintenance unit in accordance with the law. In accordance with Article 63 (3) of the Environmental Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China and the Administrative Department Article 6 (1) of Article 6 (1) of the Interim Measures for the Transfer of Environmental Violation Cases Applicable to Administrative Detention transfers the relevant responsible persons of the third-party operation and maintenance units to the administrative detention of the public security organs.
Enlightenment
Paying attention to the analysis and judgment of abnormal clues in automatic monitoring data, the ecological cloud command center and law enforcement teams linked up in real time. After activating the joint verification response mechanism, law enforcement officers divided into two groups and went straight to the site for surprise inspections. Two cases were investigated simultaneously, and enterprises and third-party operators were accurately investigated and punished. Environmental violations committed by dimensional units.
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