On the evening of June 11, masses of dead fish surfaced in the Ciedong River in Hsinchu County’s Sinfong Township. Some people suspected that unscrupulous factory operators in an upstream industrial zone had taken advantage of rainfall to dump wastewater into the river. Hsinchu County’s Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB) inspected the river but said that nothing unusual was found at the industrial zone’s sewer outfalls. The EPB’s initial investigation suggested that someone may have deliberately poisoned the fish or carelessly dumped toxic substances into the river. The bureau collected water samples and sent them to a laboratory to identify the cause.
Hsinchu County’s EPB says that on June 11, as soon as it received report from a member of the public that there was a mass fish die-off in Sinfong Township’s Ciedong River, it dispatched staff members to inspect the site. They found hundreds of dead fish piled up at two bends in the river, but there was no foul odor. EPA workers then traced up the river to the Hsinchu industrial park’s sewer outfalls but found nothing unusual. Seeing that the downstream section was also normal, they asked the district office’s cleaning team to go and clean up the dead fish.
A member of the public posted pictures of the fish die-off on Facebook, sparking a public outcry from Internet users, with many of them calling on the government to find the culprit and severely crack down on factories causing pollution. (LIBERTY TIMES, TRANSLATED BY TU YU-AN)
Photo courtesy of Hsinchu County Environmental Protection Bureau
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新竹縣新豐鄉茄苳溪,六月十一日晚間起浮現大量暴斃魚群,民眾懷疑上游工業區有不肖業者趁下雨偷排污水。縣府環保局現勘後表示工業區放流口無異常,初步研判有人毒魚或亂倒有毒物,已採樣送驗,追查原因。
新竹縣環保局表示,六月十一日接獲民眾通報,新豐鄉茄苳溪有死魚,立即派員前往察看,現場發現有兩處彎道,堆積數百隻死魚,但沒有異味。環保局沿溪追蹤到新竹工業區放流口,並未發現異狀,而下游的溪水情況也正常,已先請公所清潔隊協助清除死魚。
有民眾將魚群死亡的景象貼在臉書上,引起網友一陣撻伐,要求縣府一定要查出兇手,祭出鐵腕重罰。
(自由時報記者廖雪茹)
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