CCTV News: According to Lingling’s official Weibo account, the Emergency Management Bureau of Lingling District, Yongzhou City, Hunan Province and Lingling Branch of Yongzhou Ecological Environment Bureau reported on February 8 that at 4:40 on January 31, a transit tanker with a license plate with Shaanxi E·F5115 overturned in Lingling District, causing a part of the 33.5 tons of crude benzene loaded in the vehicle to leak. Under the guidance of leaders and experts from the superior departments such as emergency management, ecological environment, and other relevant departments, the people's governments of Yongzhou City and Lingling District immediately launched an emergency response and made every effort to promote various disposal work.
The Party Committee and the government attach great importance to the safety of people's lives and environment, and quickly evacuated and transferred the people in the warning area to address the risks of crude benzene explosion. Immediately organize a professional team to build 7 embankments in the leaked rainwater pipelines and streams and ditches to intercept them, effectively intercept the leaked crude benzene in front of the Xiaoshui River, and quickly transport the pollutants to a safe place for professional disposal. In order to ensure water quality safety, 20 water quality monitoring points were laid out along the Xiaoshui and Xiangjiang River for encrypted monitoring, and rolling water quality inspection was carried out in all links of the water plant. The leakage of crude benzene and the contaminated soil and pipelines at the scene were cleaned up in a timely manner, and transported to professional institutions for harmless disposal. Continuous monitoring of the atmospheric environmental quality in residential areas. After the safety risks at the accident site are lifted and the atmospheric environmental quality continues to meet the standards, the evacuation people are organized to return safely in an orderly manner.
In the process of accident handling, the water quality of the tap water plant is always safe and controllable, and the urban and rural water supply is normal. After proper disposal, the sewage and contaminated bottom sludge in the rainwater pipeline network and streams around the accident site have been cleaned. Starting from 12:00 on February 3, the entire water quality section will continue to meet the standards steadily. The Yongzhou Municipal People's Government and the Lingling District People's Government terminated the emergency response at 12:00 on February 6 and 22:00 on February 8 respectively. Lingling District will continue to do relevant subsequent disposal work.
