The 25 river channels in Gulou District are completely eliminated. "River chiefs" patrol the river every day with their "artifacts" to consolidate the achievements of governance

The Yangtze Evening News reporter from yesterday held the Gulou District to promote the river chief system work meeting to learn that the Gulou District 25 district channel has been completely eliminated black odor.

Black odor will be eliminated in 25 district channels

There are 27 rivers under the jurisdiction of Gulou. Except for the Gulou section of the Yangtze River and the Gulou section of the Qinhuai River, the other 25 rivers are administered by the district. At present, the black odor has been completely eliminated in these 25 rivers.

This year, Gulou District will focus on water quality improvement, including: Qingjiang River, Northwest Moat, Wulongtan, Fangjiaying Datang water quality improvement projects, as well as the northern Hexi water diversion and recycling project, and simultaneously build 29 street sewage branch pipes and 625 district rain and sewage diversion projects.

The projects will begin in May and be fully completed by the end of the year.

The river chief came to patrol the river with his "artifact"

Since last year, the Gulou District has fully implemented the river chief system. Now a four-tier system of district, street, community and non-governmental river chiefs has been established, and all 27 river courses in the district are in charge.

"I live right next to the Jinchuan River, and it really stinks when it's not cleaned up, especially on Huangmei days when you can't open the Windows." Qingshi Village community of Wu Li heard the recruitment of civil river chief, did not hesitate to sign up. As long as the wheel on their own duty, Wu Li will take a Nanjing river chief APP mobile phone to patrol the river, found the problem immediately take photos and with a simple description can click send. Intelligent river patrol also realizes the rapid response of river patrol, river protection, river control and water cooperative law enforcement.

Mobilizing enterprises stationed in the region to participate in river protection

Like Wu Li, such folk river chiefs, Gulou District a total of 71. The Gulou district now has 18 district, 13 sub-district and 71 community river chiefs, and has hired 57 civilian river chiefs and 84 social supervisors to take full responsibility for river management and maintenance supervision, said Zhang Qiang, head of the Gulou District's river chief office. At the same time, Gulou District also mobilized enterprises stationed along the river to participate in the "river protection and beauty". Lin Aifen, general manager of Shangri-La Hotel in Nanjing, took the lead in responding to the call and became the first "enterprise River Chief" in the city. Zhang Qiang told reporters that Gulou District has five "enterprise river chief", intention to join more than 20 enterprises.

Source: Yangtse Evening Post, page A16, May 4, 2018