At a meeting on environmental sanitation in Hanoi city, on the afternoon of December 18, leaders of many districts proposed that the city allow vehicles to spray water and wash roads on streets with a large amount of traffic to reduce traffic.
Cloudy at 8:00 a.m. on December 18 in Nam Tu Liem district.
Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of Bac Tu Liem District Nguyen Thi Nang Mai said that in the district there are also many large construction projects such as the Nhon – Hanoi station elevated railway, ring road 3… generating a lot of dust.
Sharing the same opinion as Ms. Mai, Chairman of Long Bien District People’s Committee Nguyen Manh Ha said that road washing can be a solution for reducing dust and the city needs to increase the frequency in the dry season with polluted air.
As an area where the city has allowed the city to pilot road washing again, Mr. Do Thanh Tung – Vice Chairman of Hoang Mai District People’s Committee said that washing the roads once a week on Giai Phong and Nghiem Xuan Yem routes has minimized the problem.
In response to the above recommendations, City Chairman Nguyen Duc Chung requested relevant units to organize street washing this week, and at the same time asked Urenco (Hanoi Urban Environment Company Limited) to improve sprinkler heads.
Cars wash the streets around Hoan Kiem Lake after night to organize walking space.
Street washing activities in Hanoi have stopped since February 2017.
When deciding to stop washing the streets, Mr. Nguyen Duc Chung explained that when using garbage trucks, Hanoi did not lose 70 billion VND in watering costs each year, and at the same time reduced the effort the drainage company had to remove the sludge from the ground.
According to Urenco leaders, after the city purchased German vacuum cleaners and garbage trucks, street washing only takes place when there are major events in the capital.
Deputy Director of Hanoi Department of Natural Resources and Environment Le Tuan Dinh informed that since the beginning of the year until now, Hanoi has experienced six periods of prolonged air pollution (on average each period is 5-10 days), the air quality in
Reiterating the 12 main causes of air pollution in the city such as vehicle emissions, honeycomb coal burning, construction activities, straw burning… Mr. Dinh proposed that the city establish regulations