Nanjing sinks uncontaminated drinking water from seagoing vessels

The Nanjing Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department issued a message on the afternoon of the 13th that, as of now, the sunken incident of the “Xinchuan No.8” seagoing vessel rubbing the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge has not caused a pollution impact on the quality of concentrated drinking water sources.

On the 12th, the “Xinchuan No.8” seagoer carrying more than 10,000 tons of limestone touched the pier between the six and seven holes of the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, and was located in the waters near the bank’s shallow bank on the north bank 3.5 kilometers downstream of the bridge. Sunk. After the sinking of the seagoing vessel, a small number of residents in the lower reaches of the accident water area once worried about the impact of drinking water quality and went to the supermarket to purchase mineral water.

In response, at 16 o'clock on the 13th on the 13th, the official micro-blog of the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department -- "Nanjing released" and relayed "Nanjing Environmental Protection," responded that after the sinking, the environmental protection departments of Jiangsu Province and Nanjing Municipality have already carried out environmental emergency procedures. The survey and monitoring closely monitored the data of the nearest source automatic monitoring station of ancient waterworks in Nanjing downstream of the accident site. Five manual sampling monitoring points were set up along the waters at the accident site and along the downstream for continuous encrypted monitoring. At the same time, emergency linkage monitoring of cities along the Yangtze River was organized. These monitoring results all indicate that as of now, the sinking of seagoing vessels has not caused any pollution impact on the quality of concentrated drinking water sources.