Extension of sewage treatment to the townships / rural sewage fee policy gaps exist
Date: 2010-1-20
Extension of sewage treatment to the townships
The reporter found that, with the environmental protection requirements around the world more and more demanding, some local townships require the construction of sewage treatment facilities. Especially with the increasing pressure of energy saving and emission reduction tasks, take the construction of sewage treatment facilities in large and medium-sized cities, the space to reduce COD will be narrowed, the township level of sewage treatment will become a new area to reduce COD in some places.
Sewage treatment plants at the township level basically rely on government funding. In Hubei Province, more than 10 township sewage treatment plants have been built or under construction, are relying on national and provincial subsidies to be implemented. Jingzhou City Construction Committee, in order to cooperate with the four lakes in Jingzhou City, Hubei Province, the watershed management, through provincial subsidies, this year, the construction of 10 township sewage treatment plants around the lakes, the daily treatment of each ton of sewage capacity subsidies of 1,300 yuan; pipeline network construction is also in accordance with the local investment of 1 million yuan each, the provincial and municipal subsidies of 500,000 yuan standard.
But the reporter found that the high environmental requirements and economic low level of contradiction in the township sewage treatment, even with the higher government subsidies, some of the construction and operation of sewage treatment facilities at the township level is still difficult to a lot of people to embark on a market-oriented operation track is even more hopeful.
On the one hand, the vast majority of townships in China's economic strength is weak, sewage treatment facilities construction follow-up funds are insufficient. In line with the governance of the lake, Hubei Supervisory County, the new ditch town is building a daily sewage treatment 4000 tons of township sewage treatment plant, the provincial financial subsidies of 5.2 million yuan. Xiong Yaoping, deputy secretary of the town party committee, said there are still 8 million yuan of local pipeline network construction costs, even if half of the higher financial subsidies, there are still 4 million yuan of shortfalls in the pressure of the local government can not breathe. He said that the new ditch town is the best economic situation of the townships in Supervision County, can be used for the construction of public **** each year is only more than 1.5 million dollars.
Therefore, Hubei Province, the four lakes area basin many township sewage treatment facilities in November last year after the signing of the relevant investment to start the agreement, so far no substantial progress.
On the other hand, the economic backwardness of the townships, resulting in urbanization of the water supply system is not sound, the low rate of rural tap water charges, and tap water charges bundled with the sewage treatment fee is also difficult to collect. Supervisory county new ditch town, although also in the report to the higher level of government to collect sewage charges, but the local tap water collection rate is only 40%, tap water plant has been indebted to more than 1 million yuan. The main reason for this is that the tap water supply network itself runs and leaks, and there are a large number of poor and unoccupied rural households.
There is a gap in the rural sewage treatment fee policy
The reporter found that, from the laws and regulations and related policies, sewage treatment fee can only be collected above the county level. Sewage treatment fee collection at the township level is blank.
Due to the township sewage charges collected without policy protection, even if the levy sewage charges, the central townships generally low economic level, the people's standard of living is not high, it is difficult to afford the high cost of sewage charges. A daily capacity of only 4000 tons of sewage treatment plant, to keep running, sewage treatment fees to far more than 1 yuan / ton. The general rural population cannot afford it. The town of Futian Temple in Hubei's Jianli County produces daily domestic sewage that is discharged into the Four Lakes watershed. After a provincial investment of 3.1 million yuan, this township with a population of only 8,600 people basically built a 2,000-ton daily sewage treatment plant in September this year. Yang Xiaobo, deputy mayor of the township, said the collection of sewage treatment fees to guarantee the commercial operation of the treatment plant has not been included in the government's plan at all. The local water supply price of 1.5 yuan / ton is also the main reason why the government does not dare to easily collect the sewage treatment fee.
In addition, the lack of talent, management is not standardized is also some of the current township sewage treatment challenges. Yang Xiaobo introduced the current sewage treatment plant or the township government in the first management. Only 2000 tons of daily capacity of the sewage treatment plant is simply not interested in business, the local government has planned to sewage treatment plant to the town of water treatment plant to manage in advance. The water plant has been contracted to the community, resulting in sewage management regulation on the "referee and as a player" situation, the town of sewage treatment plant later sustained and stable operation prospects are not optimistic.
Strengthen the means of subsidies to plug policy loopholes
The existence of the above series of problems, coupled with the township sewage treatment plant is too small, the general business is simply not normal to enter the market, the township sewage treatment distance from the market there is a very large distance. Many grass-roots cadres and experts suggest that we should adhere to the basis of promoting marketization, and gradually strengthen the support of the township sewage treatment industry.
First of all, the township sewage treatment facilities have been running or under construction, the state and the higher level government should carry out a certain fixed subsidy policy. At present, China's township sewage treatment has no specific subsidy policy, only some specific regions and projects on the subsidies, and these subsidies lack of continuity, ignoring the township sewage treatment in some of the actual problems. Yichang City, Hubei Province, deputy director of the Construction Committee Lu Feng, Yichang along the Yangtze River, built six township sewage treatment plants. In order to ensure the water quality of the Three Gorges Reservoir, the state of these township sewage treatment plants are taken year by year decreasing subsidies to ensure normal operation. According to the amount of sewage water, the state in 2006 to make up 0.80 yuan / ton, in 2008 for 0.40 yuan / ton, 2009 for 0.30 yuan / ton, 2010 for 0.20 yuan / ton, after the state is no longer subsidized.
Liu Liwei said, in addition to subsidizing construction funds, the state should be subsidized to consider the economic backwardness of the township status quo, to strengthen the subsidies for sewage treatment fees. He said that the township sewage treatment scale is small, sewage is mainly domestic sewage, primary treatment will be able to meet the national emission standards, so the main cost is still concentrated in the cost of electricity and manpower costs, as long as you can effectively solve these two problems, can ensure that the normal operation of the township sewage treatment facilities.
Secondly, to make up for the policy gaps in the collection of sewage charges in townships, to prevent this from increasing the burden on farmers. Experts believe that China's central and western rural areas are economically backward, farmers' low income, some places to collect township sewage charges must be careful, the state should have a clear policy standards, not through the addition of sewage charges to increase the burden on the rural masses.
Third, to adhere to the principle of marketization, water supply and sewage treatment must be managed separately. In order to avoid some local sewage treatment facilities idle or take the state subsidies do not deal with sewage and other issues, the state all the subsidies behavior, must be to promote the transformation of sewage treatment to the market as the principle of the operating system adhere to the participation of enterprises, the government subsidies, take the road to the market; should be separated from the operation and ownership of sewage treatment facilities, the operation of the right to auction to the market; enterprises can not be in the same area both water supply and participate in sewage treatment.