On August 14, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Quang Ninh district (Quang Binh province) Tran Xuan Tinh said that there had just been initial results of the quality of Rao Da lake when fish died en masse in early August.
Accordingly, Quang Binh Water Supply Joint Stock Company coordinated with the Center for Measurement and Testing Techniques of the Department of Science and Technology and the Center for Disease Control of Quang Binh province to take water samples for analysis to test and evaluate. Quality price of Rao Da lake surface water and clean water produced at Rao Da water plant.
However, some analytical criteria require enough time to perform or are beyond the ability to perform at the laboratories of the above centers, so they must be transferred for analysis to laboratories with higher functions. .
“Currently, the company has only received part of the clean water quality analysis results. The analyzed indicators all showed results within the allowable limits of local standards," Mr. Tinh said.
Also according to the Vice Chairman of Quang Ninh District People's Committee, in the coming time, the locality will continue to wait for the results. If there are problems related to water sources, they will be handled promptly.
Previously, as Lao Dong Newspaper reported , in the early days of August, a series of tilapia, silver carp, and white sea turtle died on the shore of Rao Da Lake for unknown reasons.
Some workers measuring water at the lake said that the fish deaths occurred over the past 10 days. Here, tilapia and tench fish, dead and upside down, drift to the shore. Many of them, estimated at 5-6kg, are in the process of decomposition. Nearby, right on the shore, other fish corpses had dried up, their bones drying in the hot sun.
It is known that Rao Da lake has a design capacity of more than 82 million m3. The lake was built in 2006 and put into use in 2010. The lake supplies domestic water to 7 communes in Quang Ninh district. Water supply and irrigation for thousands of hectares of double-crop rice in two districts of Quang Ninh and Le Thuy.
