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Hefei Urban Drainage Management Approach

Original Language Title: 合肥市城市排水管理办法

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Urban drainage management

(Adopted by the 25th ordinary meeting of the Government of the fertilities of 22 December 2008, No. 146 of 16 January 2009 by the Government of the fertilized fertilities, which came into force on 1 March 2009)

Chapter I General

Article 1 provides for the regulation of urban drainage management, the safe operation of urban drainage facilities, the improvement of the water environment, the development of this approach, in line with the Water Pollution Control Act of the People's Republic of China, the Regulations on the Regulation of the Municipal Facilities of Pornography and the relevant regulations, regulations and regulations.

Article II applies to drainage and associated management activities within the city area.

This approach refers to the admission, transmission, treatment and release of water to urban industries, sewage (hereinafter referred to as sewage) and atmospheric rainfall (hereinafter referred to as rainwater).

The scheme states that urban drainage facilities include public drainage facilities and self-established drainage facilities. Public drainage facilities refer to public networks for admission, transmission, treatment, release of urban sewerage and rainwater, troughs, pumps and sewerage plants and their subsidiary facilities; self-established water facilities refer to the self-investment of the owner in the construction of pipelines, telecommunications, pumps and sewage treatment facilities for drainage in the region.

Article 3. Urban water sequestration is guided by the principles of integrated planning, alignment, concentration and dispersion, sewage treatment and integrated use.

Article IV builds the management of urban drainage by the city's executive authority responsible for the day-to-day management of urban drainage.

Sectors such as environmental protection, planning, finance, public safety, prices, urban administration and administration should be jointly managed in accordance with their respective responsibilities.

Any unit or individual has a legal obligation to drain water and protect drainage facilities and has the right to report violations of drainage and damage to drainage facilities.

Chapter II Planning and construction

Article 6

The establishment of administrative authorities, the development of regional management bodies should be based on municipal drainage professional planning, the organization of specialized water planning within the jurisdictional area and the preparation of municipal authorities.

Article 7. New construction, alteration, expansion of drainage facilities should be carried out in rainwater, sewerage; rainwater pipelines and sewage pipelines should not be mixed.

The existing drainage facilities do not carry out rainwater and sewerage, and should be phased out in accordance with the principles of rainwater, sewerage.

Areas not covered by the urban sewerage network and areas with high demand for refuel water should be planned to build small sewerage plants.

Article 8. Urban-building administrative authorities should develop and organize annual construction plans for public drainage facilities such as urban drainage networks, pumps, sewage treatment plants, in line with drainage professional planning.

Regions, development zones should be aligned with the construction of the corresponding drainage facilities within the area, in accordance with the annual construction plan developed by municipal authorities.

Article 9. The construction project should include drainage facilities in the project-led construction plan in line with the drainage professional planning, while designing construction projects simultaneously, and making use.

Prior to the design of construction projects, municipal planning authorities should seek the advice of the municipal drainage management authorities.

Article 10 Engineering design, construction, treasury shall implement national and local technical standards and technical norms and make tenders in accordance with the law.

The units designed, constructed and administered by drainage facilities should have a corresponding level of qualifications.

After the completion of the drainage facility, the construction units should organize, in a timely manner, the receipt of the participation of the drainage management bodies; the failure to collect or receive it is not eligible for use.

Article 12

Chapter III

Article 13. In the area covered by the urban sewerage network, drainage units and individuals should place sewage into urban sewerage networks and their subsidiary facilities.

Removal of wastewater into rainwater pipes or into sewerage networks is prohibited.

Article 14. Emissions of industrial wastewater to urban sewerage networks and their subsidiary facilities, entrepreneurship units for medical sewerage, sewage treatment plants and drainage of wastewater directly into natural water bodies shall be applied by law to the environmental protection sector for the processing of sewerage permits.

Emissions from industrial wastewater, units and individuals engaged in production, operation activities outside the utilities of medical sewage shall be made available to the urban sewerage network and its subsidiary facilities for the processing of urban drainage permits.

Article 15. The environmental protection sector should seek the views of the municipal drainage management authorities on whether the project sewage is vested in the urban sewerage network prior to the nuclear effluence permit.

In the case of the municipal drainage management for the processing of the urban drainage network for emission industrial wastewater, medical sewerage units, the environmental protection sector's nuclear-professional licence or the granting of a test production certificate should be identified.

Article 16 requests for the processing of urban drainage permits shall provide the following materials:

(i) An application form for drainage;

(ii) Explanatory water information (concluding the scope of business, water volume, sewage treatment processes, etc.);

(iii) Pool of drainage facilities;

(iv) Other information to be provided by law.

Article 17 is in accordance with the following conditions, and the municipal drainage management shall issue a licence for nuclear cities within 20 working days of the date of receipt of the request:

(i) The installation of sewage emission points is in line with the requirements for urban exclusive water planning;

(ii) Removal wastewater is consistent with national and local standards;

(iii) Establish appropriate wastewater treatment facilities in accordance with the provisions;

(iv) A dedicated test was established at the emission level.

Emphasis should also be given to the ability to detect water quality, water measurement and the corresponding testing system, in addition to the conditions attached to the previous paragraph.

Reservations of the types of temporary drainage of construction operations are sufficient to cause disruption or damage to the drainage network and its subsidiary facilities, except in accordance with paragraph 1.

Article 18 Emissions of sewerage will need to be continued and drainage units and individuals should be completed at an effective date A request was made to the municipal drainage management authorities by 30 years. The municipal drainage management shall, upon request, decide whether to grant continuity before the expiry of the effective period.

As construction requires the temporary release of wastewater to the urban sewerage network and its subsidiary facilities, the effective period of the drainage licence is specified by the municipal drainage management on the basis of the drainage, but not the duration of the construction.

When drainage units and individuals have access to urban drainage permits, they should be transferred to the municipal drainage management to take over.

The municipal drainage management should conduct oversight inspections of the takeovers to prevent misperceptions, omissions and misconceptions.

Article 20

When drainage units and individuals are required to change the status of drainage, a change in registration should be submitted to the municipal drainage management authorities on 15 days, which may be released by approval.

Article 21 states that, when special circumstances such as jeep or spillover of drainage facilities, drainage units and individuals should be subject to the uniform movement control of the drainage management authorities, which shall release wastewater as required.

Article 2: The drainage of water units and individuals into drainage facilities due to accident accidents shall immediately report the drainage management and the environmental protection sector and take emergency measures to prevent the occurrence or expansion of hazards.

Article 23 of the environmental protection sector is responsible for the discharge of industrial wastewater to urban sewerage networks and their subsidiary facilities, the business unit for medical sewage, the water quality, water quality monitoring and inspection of sewage treatment plants and drainage units that directly sewerage natural water plants; and the establishment of drainage monitoring files.

drainage units and individuals should cooperate with water quality, water monitoring and inspection.

The municipal drainage management and the environmental protection sector should regularly communicate monitoring information.

Chapter IV Management and maintenance of drainage facilities

Article 24, Public drainage facilities are administered and maintained by the drainage management body or its mandated units.

The conservation, maintenance of drainage facilities may choose to maintain units through tendering and gradually operate market.

The construction of drainage facilities is managed and maintained by the owner or its mandated units.

Article 25 Maintenance of the responsibility unit shall establish a maintenance plan and inspection system, in accordance with national and local standards, for the conservation of drainage facilities and for the safe operation of drainage facilities.

In the event of accidents such as spillovers caused by drainage facilities, the maintenance of the responsible units should immediately organize, take effective measures to restore the operation of drainage facilities as soon as possible and report to the drainage management in a timely manner.

Where drainage facilities are renovated, units and individuals should support, cooperate and not be obstructed.

Article 27 requires suspension of drainage due to the renovation or special maintenance of public drainage facilities, and the drainage management should be informed of the drainage along the line in advance and the return of normal drainage as soon as possible.

The suspension of drainage on the scope of production, which may have a serious impact, shall be submitted to the Government of the city or region for approval and issued a notice.

Article 28 conducts construction operations within three metres across the five-mile and sub-line pipelines on the two sides of the urban public drainage line, affecting the safety of drainage facilities, construction units or construction units shall agree on protective measures prior to construction and shall be monitored by the maintenance of the responsible units.

Article 29, in the light of the need to change drainage facilities in construction work, should be reported to be approved by the drainage management bodies and the costs incurred by the construction units.

Article 33 Prohibition of damage to drainage facilities:

(i) dumping of garbage, manure, residues to drainage networks and their subsidiary facilities;

(ii) Instruction of oil (smoking), construction of fervents directly into drainage facilities;

(iii) Emissions of toxic, hazardous,flammable and easily explosive substances to drainage facilities;

(iv) Including drainage facilities;

(v) Restructuring, dismantling, moving and dressing facilities;

(vi) Orientation of drainage to drainage facilities;

(vii) Other acts that undermine drainage facilities.

Article 31 of the water quality of emissions from sewage treatment plants should be consistent with national and local emission standards and be subject to the supervision of the drainage management and the environmental protection sector.

The sewage treatment plants should install water flow counts and online monitoring devices and be networked with the drainage management and environmental protection sector surveillance centres.

Chapter V Legal responsibility

Article 32, drainage units and individuals, in violation of this approach, have one of the following acts, warnings by the urban administration of administrative law enforcement services, correction of deadlines and fines, and liability should be borne by law:

(i) No sewerage shall be placed on the sewerage network within the coverage of the urban sewerage network;

(ii) Relocating rainwater to wastewater networks;

(iii) No urban drainage permit for release of wastewater to urban drainage networks and their subsidiary facilities;

(iv) Emission of sewerage to urban drainage networks and their subsidiary facilities beyond the effective time required for urban drainage permits;

(v) Emission of wastewater to urban drainage networks and their subsidiary facilities, in violation of the provisions of urban drainage permits.

In the first paragraph (i), (ii), a fine of up to 1 million yen in 2000 was imposed; in the previous paragraph (iii), (iv), (v) a fine of up to 30,000 dollars.

In violation of this approach, one of the following acts is warned by the urban administration of administrative law enforcement authorities, that the deadline is being changed and fined; and that the damage to drainage facilities should be borne by law:

(i) dumping of garbage, manure, residues to drainage networks and their subsidiary facilities;

(ii) Instruction of oil (smoking), construction of fervents directly into drainage facilities;

(iii) Emission of toxic, hazardous, fuel-prone and explosive substances to drainage facilities;

(iv) To carry out construction operations in the context of public drainage facilities protection that affect the safety of drainage facilities;

(v) Including drainage facilities;

(vi) Restructuring, dismantling, moving and dressing facilities;

(vii) Extensive drainage from drainage facilities.

In the first paragraph (i), a fine of up to $500,000 was imposed; in the case of the former paragraph (ii), (iii), (iv) a fine of more than 5,000 dollars; and in the case of the former paragraph (v), (vi), vii) a fine of up to 3,000 dollars.

Article 34 quantification units violate the provisions of the relevant laws and regulations governing water pollution control and are punishable by law by the environmental protection sector.

Article XV, theft, damage to drainage facilities or the obstruction of the functioning of State organs in accordance with the Act on the Safety and Security of the People's Republic of China, punishes them by public security authorities; constitutes an offence punishable by law.

Article 36 responsibilities for the maintenance of drainage facilities are not sluggated or looted in a timely manner, resulting in loss of drainage units or individuals and should be subject to corresponding liability.

Article 37 does not carry out their duties in accordance with this approach by the competent authorities and the drainage administration, and shall be disposed of by law to the competent and other direct responsibilities directly responsible.

The authorities and the staff of the drainage management bodies misuse their functions, favour private fraud, activism, and are lawfully disposed of; suspected crimes are transferred to the judiciary.

Annex VI

Article 338 Urban drainage management in three municipalities is implemented in the light of this approach.

Article 39 of this approach is implemented effective 1 March 2009. The Urban Seizure Management Approach (No. 76 of the Order of the People of the City) was also repealed by the Government of the city on 22 November 1999.