As many as 185 production establishments causing pollution in the southern province of Dong Nai are requested to relocate out of residential areas by the end of 2015.

The province’s approved list of polluters required to move included 37 facilities that engage in pottery production and 20 slaughterhouses.

As of June, 21 out of the 28 operating industrial parks in Dong Nai ran concentrated wastewater treatment systems, with a total processing capacity of 102,000 cubic metres per day, reported the provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment.

Meanwhile, automated wastewater observation stations had been set up in 17 industrial parks, 14 of which have been built by the province with a total investment of 77 billion VND.

Air supervision stations had also become operational in three other parks, helping control pollution in the sites.

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