Foul stench returns to Mamings Village in Yunlin as operator buries hidden pipe to secretly discharge raw pig manure and urine
Once again, an operator has been caught secretly burying a hidden pipe! The Environmental Protection Administration, working with the Yunlin County Environmental Protection Bureau, on the day before yesterday uncovered a livestock farm in Mamings Village that had deliberately buried a hidden pipe to secretly discharge untreated "raw pig manure and pig urine" into a drainage ditch, causing local residents to suffer long-term foul odors. With the relevant evidence stacking up clearly, the operator was reported under Article 18-1 of the Water Pollution Control Act and could face a fine of up to 15 million New Taiwan dollars.
Operator secretly discharges "raw manure and urine"
Yunlin County is one of the major livestock-raising hubs, but residents of Mamings Village in Baozhong Township often smell foul odors coming from beside their homes. Many people pointed the finger at a livestock farm raising a thousand pigs and repeatedly filed complaints with the Environmental Protection Bureau, but there had never been direct evidence to prove it. Village chief Li Xinzai also noted that strange smells would appear from time to time, making life unbearable for nearby residents.
After two weeks of surveillance and monitoring, the offending operator was finally caught red-handed on the 15th. According to the Environmental Protection Administration, it first analyzed possible nearby pollution sources and the water quality of the Magongcuo main drainage. After identifying a certain livestock farm as a prime suspect, it carried out an inspection that day and indeed caught the operator on the spot with a buried hidden pipe, secretly discharging wastewater into a nearby drainage ditch, which then flowed into an irrigation channel; even more horrifying, the discharged manure and urine was completely untreated "raw liquid."
Not only that, Environmental Protection Administration inspectors also pointed out that when the operator learned the scheme had been exposed, he quickly closed the valve while the inspectors were entering the site, in an attempt to destroy evidence of the secret discharge; fortunately, the relevant evidence had already been fully collected, and the results of releasing an environmental tracing dye confirmed that it was the operator's doing, leaving him unable to argue.
The operator uses a movable plug to control the opening and closing of the pig manure and urine wastewater bypass flow (Image provided by the Environmental Protection Administration)Therefore, for the operator's egregious secret discharge, the Environmental Protection Administration reported him on the spot under Article 18-1 of the Water Pollution Control Act: "Industrial wastewater (sewage) shall be discharged through an approved and registered discharge outlet, and shall not be discharged through bypass flow." The offending operator will face imprisonment of up to five years, or a fine of not less than 200,000 New Taiwan dollars and not more than 15 million New Taiwan dollars.
Regarding the repeatedly seen secret discharges of livestock wastewater, the Environmental Protection Administration called on livestock operators to apply to join the ranks of using biogas slurry and biogas residue as agricultural land fertilizer. Not only can they be exempt from water pollution fees, but for the biogas power generation portion, Taipower will also purchase each kilowatt-hour from operators at 5.0087 New Taiwan dollars, turning pig and cattle "gold" into real gold.
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