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Rubbish has been flooding the Hoang Truong fishing port in Hoang Hoa district of Thanh Hoa province, while the beach with its wonderful landscape has become badly polluted.
Visitors arriving at the Hoang Truong fishing port can see hundreds of fishing boats preparing to go to the open sea, and rubbish piled up in heaps in coastal areas. Solid waste, plastics bags, aquatic creatures, bricks, sand and stones all have been thrown in the areas for many years.
Hoang Truong sea, located near Thanh Hoa province’s ecotourism site, famous for natural beautiful landscape, is getting seriously polluted with waste of different kinds, from domestic garbage to oil and paint.
Most local residents in Giang Son hamlet in Hoang Truong commune complained that they have lived with garbage over many years.
“The situation will ease in rainy days, but it is really terrible on sunny days. Wind brings garbage to everywhere, while fishing boats discharge lubricants,” Nguyen Thi Nhung, 50, said.
“Local residents all drop litter in coastal areas,” she said.
She said she had to “breathe the terrible air” every morning when she goes there to collect shrimp and fishes from returned boats.
Nguyen Van Dung, a local man living near the fishing port, said he had to bury aquatic creature dead bodies every day, because no one takes responsibility. However, he still has to keep windows closed all day to prevent the bad odor.
Pointing to a black canal full of garbage, Dung said the canal also brings waste water to the sea.
Hoang Truong is a coastal commune with high population density, and therefore, discharges a big volume of waste every day. The pollution, in local residents’ thoughts, is unavoidable.
Le Van Hoang, chair of Hoang Truong Commune, said the Hoang Truong fishing port is polluted with large volume of rubbish. The commune’s authorities still have not thought of collecting the garbage, because no one knows where the garbage would be placed, as there is no dumping ground in the commune.
“There are 80 offshore fishing boats and 650 boats inshore fishing boats. Therefore, the pollution is inevitable,” he said.
Local authorities have not found a proper solution for cleaning the fishing port and improving the environment, even though local officials understand that the fishing port has been slowly destroying the tourism potential of the beautiful territorial waters.
Scientists have warned that not only fresh water areas have been polluted, but sea water is also bearing a similar hard pressure.
The waste water from residential quarters is following the canals and rivers to flow to the sea, while the operational water treatment systems are not capable enough to treat the waste water. The risk of sea water getting polluted has become more serious, experts say.
Hoang Truong sea, located near Thanh Hoa province’s ecotourism site, famous for natural beautiful landscape, is getting seriously polluted with waste of different kinds, from domestic garbage to oil and paint.
Most local residents in Giang Son hamlet in Hoang Truong commune complained that they have lived with garbage over many years.
“The situation will ease in rainy days, but it is really terrible on sunny days. Wind brings garbage to everywhere, while fishing boats discharge lubricants,” Nguyen Thi Nhung, 50, said.
“Local residents all drop litter in coastal areas,” she said.
She said she had to “breathe the terrible air” every morning when she goes there to collect shrimp and fishes from returned boats.
Nguyen Van Dung, a local man living near the fishing port, said he had to bury aquatic creature dead bodies every day, because no one takes responsibility. However, he still has to keep windows closed all day to prevent the bad odor.
Pointing to a black canal full of garbage, Dung said the canal also brings waste water to the sea.
Hoang Truong is a coastal commune with high population density, and therefore, discharges a big volume of waste every day. The pollution, in local residents’ thoughts, is unavoidable.
Le Van Hoang, chair of Hoang Truong Commune, said the Hoang Truong fishing port is polluted with large volume of rubbish. The commune’s authorities still have not thought of collecting the garbage, because no one knows where the garbage would be placed, as there is no dumping ground in the commune.
“There are 80 offshore fishing boats and 650 boats inshore fishing boats. Therefore, the pollution is inevitable,” he said.
Local authorities have not found a proper solution for cleaning the fishing port and improving the environment, even though local officials understand that the fishing port has been slowly destroying the tourism potential of the beautiful territorial waters.
Scientists have warned that not only fresh water areas have been polluted, but sea water is also bearing a similar hard pressure.
The waste water from residential quarters is following the canals and rivers to flow to the sea, while the operational water treatment systems are not capable enough to treat the waste water. The risk of sea water getting polluted has become more serious, experts say.
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