Jinsha River, Sichuan official ruled out poisoning may salvage 40 tonnes of dead fish | | dead fish _ of jinsha River news

Website Chengdu July 19 electric (reporter Wu Xiaoying) for recently jinsha River downstream to home dam water station library district appeared of large died fish phenomenon, located Sichuan Yibin city in Pingshan County, Government responded said, by detection library district water more than 20 over items indicators are normal, can basic excluded toxic harmful real entered library district, and acute bio poisoning led to fish death of May; and TGP company to home dam project Department News Center said, preliminary judge for flood led to River gas had saturated, caused shallow water cage farming fish large death.

Starting from July 8, jinsha River xiangjiaba reservoir waters having large amounts of dead fish. Dead fish are mainly concentrated in the jinsha River xiangjiaba hydropower station reservoir area to the section between the xiluodu hydropower station, Pingshan County, most of the dead fish and suijiang County, Yunnan province. As of 17th, salvage and dispose of more than 40 tons of dead fish in Pingshan County (of which about 19 tons of dead fish in cages), there is still a new dead fish, but the amount of dead fish has decreased.

According to in Pingshan County, jinsha River Ping Shan library district died fish event emergency disposal work led group 18th announced of survey results displayed, from 2012 completed immigrants relocation Hou, Ping Shan jinsha River Library District No any industrial enterprise, not exists emissions industrial wastewater situation; July 5 to 10th during, Ping Shan library district road no occurred traffic accident, not exists toxic harmful real entered library district of problem; Ping Shan library district masses and the fishermen no using toxic harmful real; July 9 up, by Yibin city, and In Pingshan County, Yibin city, Department of environmental protection for water sampling and sending test of environmental protection departments, over more than 20 indicators of water quality in the reservoir area of normal, Basic you can eliminate fish kills caused by acute biological poisoning.

As for the cause of dead fish, xiangjiaba project Department of the company of the three gorges Press Center officials said in media interviews earlier, preliminary judge for spillway tunnel of xiluodu and dead fish have great relevance, flood led to gas supersaturation River, causing massive death cage culture of fish in shallow water.

This reporter has learned, the Ministry of agriculture fisheries ecological environment monitoring center in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River are samples of dead fish and monitoring of water quality in the reservoir area, has not yet issued an official test results.

In order to prevent the fish from the market, local government departments have strengthened market supervision, non-citizen fish eat dead fish, and dead fish in the fishing area were harmless treatment for preventing secondary pollution.

It is learnt that the xiangjiaba hydropower station is located in the lower reaches of the jinsha River, located in zhaotong city, Yunnan province, shuifu County (right bank) and Sichuan Yibin (left bank), 157 km of xiluodu hydropower station in the upper reaches, is China's overall third hydroelectric power station.

(Edit: SN117)
11:35 on July 19, 2014 Xinhua NET