Water Environment Construction Department of Municipal Water Bureau: Won 109 river renovation battles

2017 is the year of the decisive battle to eliminate black odor in the city's built-up areas. According to the national, provincial, municipal requirements, Nanjing to complete 109 river regulation, to achieve the built-up area basically eliminate black odor. Compared with 2016, the number of 2017 is three times that of 2016. The rectification scope is wide, the time is tight, and the task is very arduous. As the office to undertake the city's scope of black and smelly river regulation and related wading facilities construction, the water environment construction Department of the Municipal Water Bureau earnestly performed its duties and took the initiative to complete the goals set at the beginning of the year and win the battle of black and smelly river regulation.

Water environment construction department relevant person in charge of introduction, received 109 river remediation tasks, office leadership led the initiative to docking with each district, the scene of the investigation of the river, one by one preparation of remediation plans. At the end of February, more than 330 people participated in the training, inviting the chief editor of the relevant guide of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, experts from Zhejiang Five-Water Co-governance Office, Suzhou City and our city to give lectures to the students. At the end of March, the construction of Article 109 began in full swing, which is the fastest advance in previous years. After the construction of the project, the water environment Construction Department will correspond the tasks of each district to everyone in the office. The comrades in charge should track the whole process of the responsible river, find the problems in time, put forward suggestions for rectification, and issue a total of 57 notices of supervision and handling throughout the year.

In 2017, the river regulation work is undoubtedly the focus of the city. Leaders at all levels have investigated and investigated for many times, and the requirements put forward by the water conservancy department are also studied and implemented, and the work is constantly improved. In order to increase the mass participation, the water environment Construction Department opened a column on the website, set up a public opinion consultation point at the construction site, and carefully listen to the opinions of the masses. For example, in the renovation process of Crescent Lake, it adopted the suggestions of surrounding residents and made use of abandoned pipes to build an island in the middle of the lake, which was recognized by the masses. Baltail River because along the way through more than 10 communities, once very black and smelly, dubbed by the media as "ink River", after a year of regulation, Baltail River took on a new look, to achieve "smooth river, clear water, green bank, beautiful scenery".

It is also an important responsibility of the Water Environment Construction Department to review the scheme, handle the preliminary procedures, and coordinate, guide and evaluate the river regulation work in each district. According to the introduction, the office during the day to busy review, research, often use the night to get together, discuss research work. There were also three new mothers in the room, all of whom were born in 2016. They should have had more time to take care of their children, but they often went out in the morning before their children woke up, and then came home at night with their children already asleep.

Hard work comes to him who waits. By the end of December 2017, the improvement of 109 river channels had been completed, with a total investment of 1.93 billion yuan, 1,270 drainage outlets had been repaired, 3.57 million square meters of river channels had been dredging, and more than 180 ecological restoration had been completed.

Source: Nanjing Daily, page A5, April 19, 2018