Nghe An: Only 8 industrial clusters have invested in wastewater treatment systems

Nam Cam Industrial Park Wastewater Treatment Plant. Photo: Viet Phuong

To date, 20 industrial parks have been put into operation with 248 enterprises operating in production and business. Of these, 04 FDI enterprises are relatively large in scale operating in the garment sector, the rest are medium and small in scale operating in the fields of mineral processing, forestry products, mechanical processing, metal recycling, plastic product recycling and manufacturing, and packaging manufacturing.

According to Mr. Thai Van Nong - Deputy Director of Department of Natural Resources and EnvironmentIn the field, among the 8 industrial parks with wastewater treatment systems, only Hong Ky Tower Industrial Park (Dien Chau) has a centralized treatment system, the remaining 7 industrial parks only have biological lake systems.

In addition, 04/20 industrial parks only have wastewater and rainwater separation systems, 07/20 industrial parks do not have a centralized wastewater treatment system. There is 1 industrial park that is building a wastewater treatment system. Thus, compared to 2017, the rate of industrial parks invested in wastewater treatment systems has not changed, although the Provincial People's Committee has assigned the responsibility to the District People's Committee to implement.

For general solid waste, domestic solid waste, hazardous waste and basic industrial waste, the facilities collect and contract with qualified enterprises for transportation and treatment. However, the collection and treatment of solid waste at industrial parks still has some limitations: Some facilities with small amounts of industrial waste still collect and treat it together with domestic waste.