The provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment has just said authorities would install automatic monitoring systems and cameras to observe the discharge of industrial wastewater at all aforesaid facilities.
Last Tuesday, the department launched automatic monitoring devices to keep watch of wastewater discharged from six industrial parks including the Vietnam-Singapore IP, Dong An, Viet Huong 1, Song Than 1, Song Than 2 and My Phuoc 1. The installation of automatic monitoring systems cost some VND30 billion.
At the moment, Binh Duong has 24 industrial parks with 1,200 enterprises inside. The province also has eight other industrial clusters with 1,450 manufacturers, beside some 8,140 enterprises operating outside the industrial parks.
These industrial enterprises are discharging around 240,000 cubic meters of wastewater into the environment each day.
However, large amounts of the wastewater are still improperly treated compared to the permitted standards. According to the province’s Environmental Protection Agency, less than 20% of the discharged wastewater from industrial firms meets the stipulated environmental standards after a recent investigation.