Jiangning military and civilian joint control black smelly river

Yesterday afternoon, more than 200 security guards, signal soldiers and navigation soldiers from Jiangning Garrison Unit 73602 put on rubber shoes and shovelled engineers and gathered at the airport Ditch black and smelly river, and joined hands with local staff to clean up the black and smelly river.

The airport ditch is about 1.2 kilometers long, located at the side of the garrison of Unit 73602. The mud in the ditch is about 70 to 80 centimeters deep. The river is black and smelly, which has been included in the comprehensive regulation of the region. Because the slope on both sides of the airport ditch is high and steep, large machinery can not play a role, the people's army asked to fight.

At 2 o 'clock that afternoon, more than 260 officers and soldiers under the political commissar Chen Zhi, jumped into the river, the officers and soldiers endure the pungent smell, in two groups, one responsible for digging out the silt with engineers, another responsible for bagging, soon a bag of silt from the bottom of the pile to the shore. Shore, Jiangning construction Group has arranged muck car and excavator, the staff will be bagged silt loading away.

Unit 73602 participated in Wenchuan earthquake rescue. Chen Zhi said that Jiangning District control black and smelly river, is to improve the living environment of residents a public project, participation in governance is the people's army's unshirkable responsibility. Officers and men will give full play to the spirit of not afraid of dirty and not afraid of tiring, contributing to the improvement of water quality in the river.

According to the site construction personnel, the airport ditch dredging, the next step will be to intercept pollution, landscape greening, water diversion, the whole renovation project is expected to end at the end of July this year.

Source: A2 Nanjing Daily, March 2, 2017