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Wuxi Hydrological Management Approach

Original Language Title: 无锡市水文管理办法

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Hydrographic management approach in the SARS

(Adopted by the 18th ordinary meeting of the Government of the Community of 1 August 2013, No. 140 of 9 August 2013, published as of 1 October 2013)

Chapter I General

Article 1, in order to strengthen hydrological management, regulate hydrological work, develop hydrological causes, promote economic and social sustainable development, in line with laws such as the People's Republic of China Water Act, the People's Republic of China Act on Hunger, the People's Republic of China, the Hydrographic Regulations and the Hydrographic Regulations of the Province of San Susang.

Article 2 engages in hydrological activities within the city's administration and should be subject to this approach.

The approach refers to hydrological activities described in the hydrographic planning and station network, hydrological monitoring and intelligence forecasting, hydro-hydro survey evaluation, hydro monitoring information consolidation, custody and use, and the protection of hydrological facilities and hydrological monitoring environments, and activities such as hydrological scientific research.

Article 3. The cause of hydrology is the basis for national economic and social development. Governments at all levels should strengthen their leadership in hydrological work by integrating hydrological causes into the overall planning of economic and social development of their nationals, fully playing the role of hydrological work in government decision-making, socio-economic development and public services, and guaranteeing the necessary funding for hydrological work.

Article IV provides for the management of hydrology in the city, under the leadership of the Provincial Water Administration and the People's Government, and is guided by the municipal water administration authorities.

The municipal (zone) hydrological body is a commune institution responsible for the management of hydrology in the Territory and is guided by the leadership of the host Government and the water administration authorities.

The city's hydrological institutions are specifically responsible for the management of hydrology within the jurisdiction, in accordance with their responsibilities.

Other units engaged in hydrological activities should be subject to the industrial management of hydrological institutions.

Article 5

Article 6 encourages and supports research and extension applications for hydrological science and technology.

There should be recognition and incentives for units and individuals that make significant achievements in hydrological work.

Chapter II

Article 7. The municipal water administration authorities shall prepare municipal hydrological development planning in accordance with the provincial hydrology development planning and economic and social development needs, with the relevant departments and municipal hydrological institutions, and, with the advice of the provincial water administration authorities, report on implementation by the Government of the city.

Article 8. The municipal hydrological institutions should organize the development of municipal hydrology networks in accordance with municipal hydrology development planning, post-communication of municipal water administration authorities and development reform departments.

The municipal hydrological institutions should adapt to the construction of the municipal hydrology station network in due course, in accordance with economic and social development needs and changes in the hydrological situation, and report on the approval of the agencies.

The establishment of a network of communes is made public by municipal hydrological institutions.

Article 9 incorporates the construction of hydrological stations (hereinafter referred to as municipal hydrology measurement stations) in the planning of the urban hydrology network, and should be included in the basic construction plans of the municipal water administration authorities, in accordance with the national fixed asset investment project, and in the conduct of special checks.

The new construction, alteration, expansion of the hydro-powering project needs to be accompanied by the construction or upgrading of hydrology stations, and the provision for the construction of hydrology stations should be included in the construction budget estimates. The hydrological metric stations directly serviced by the water engineering facility should be organized in the provision for the maintenance of the water industry.

Article 10 may not duplicate the construction of hydrological stations in areas where existing hydrology stations are used. The procedures for approval should be governed by the rules.

Hydrographic stations are constructed and managed by the establishment of units that are in a position to manage and can be delegated to municipal hydrological institutions.

The removal of hydrology stations should be reported to the approval of the body.

Article 11. As a result of the fact that construction requires the relocation of the municipal hydrological metric station, the construction unit shall have an argumentary report on the quality of the assessment of hydro-hydro resources by units with higher than level 5 prior to the construction of the project, submit a written request to the municipal hydrological institution and be implemented with the consent of the municipal water administration. The relocation costs are borne by the construction unit.

The evidence reports should include the location of displacement, the monitoring of the environment, the staffing of facilities, emergency monitoring measures, the comparative observation programme, the evaluation of the consistency of hydrological information, and the budget for funding.

During the relocation of municipal hydrology stations, the relevant hydrological institutions should take emergency measures to ensure the proper conduct of hydrological monitoring.

Article 12. Newly, alterations, expansion of hydrological stations planned for the construction of hydrology sites, the Government of the people of the location and the relevant sectors should support project setting, planning the location, land allocation, construction costs, monitoring environmental protection.

The land registration process has been used by hydrological stations.

Chapter III

Article 13 units and individuals engaged in hydrological monitoring should comply with national standards, norms and protocols for hydrological technology and ensure quality monitoring.

No unit or person shall be free to report, late, misstatement, conceal the information on hydrological monitoring and shall not forfeiture hydrological monitoring information.

Article 14. Hydrographic institutions should strengthen monitoring of water stocks, water quality, water ecosystems, etc. in river lakes and groundwaters, providing timely and accurate monitoring information for drought prevention, the implementation of the most rigorous water resource management system, water environmental governance and ecocivilization.

The municipal hydrological institutions may, as required, entrust units in compliance with the conditions or individuals with hydrological monitoring projects such as rainfall, water. The authorized units or individuals shall be subject to project monitoring in accordance with the delegated matters and requests.

Article 15. Hydrographic institutions are entrusted by the Water Administration authorities and are:

(i) To carry out water availability, water quality monitoring, production of hydro-hydro information forecasts for drinking water sources; to detect changes in water, water quality, etc. by monitoring water sources, or possible occurrence of sudden-on-scale water pollution incidents, to enhance monitoring and investigation and to provide timely monitoring, investigation of the people of the sites and their water administration authorities, environmental protection administrative authorities and water authorities.

(ii) Conduct dynamic monitoring of the quality of water in water functional areas, prepare regular water functional monitoring briefings; identify emission levels that exceed control targets or that water functional areas do not meet water quality requirements; and report on time to the people of the location and their water administration authorities.

(iii) To carry out a gesture of watersheds, water control alga monitoring and the Pan-Kinal Lake, to prepare a monitoring briefing and to present the municipal water administration authorities in a timely manner.

(iv) Undertake groundwater monitoring, produce regular monitoring briefings and annual bulletins on groundwater dynamics; identify groundwater water, water quality and report on time to the people's Government and its water administration authorities.

(v) Implementation of environmental resource compensation, monitoring of regional water volumes, regular provision of monitoring results on regional boundaries, environmental resource compensation.

Article 16 Hydrographic institutions should strengthen hydrological trajectory and survey analysis, establish a mechanism for sound hydrological monitoring emergency response, accelerate hydrological automatic monitoring and rapid response capacity-building, improve monitoring tools and increase public service levels.

Monitoring results for water quality, water quality and pollutant emissions in water functional areas should be used as a basis for inspection, assessment of the nuclear water functional area.

Article 18 Hydrographic institutions should provide real-time water, rain, drought information and hydrological information forecasts to the host people's Government's drought-related command institutions.

The relevant departments and units should be provided in a timely manner when hydrological information is required for the production of hydrological information forecasts by hydrological institutions for other sectors and units.

Article 19

Hydrographic information forecasts, flood information forecasts and drought analysis forecasts are issued in accordance with their respective mandates by the city, the city (zone), the local Government's drought-related command, water administrative authorities or municipal hydrological institutions.

The media, such as radio, television, newspapers and networks, should be broadcast, published in a timely manner, in accordance with the provisions and requirements, and indicate the name and time of the institution.

Other units and individuals are prohibited to issue hydrological information forecasts to society.

Article 20, city, city (zone), the people of the region should strengthen information monitoring systems such as water, drought and the development and maintenance of flood early warning systems.

Radio management, communications services units should provide reliable communications security for hydrological monitoring and telecommunications, in accordance with national regulations. No unit or person shall be excluded, interfere with wireless and cable communications lines used by hydrological institutions.

Chapter IV

Article 21 of this approach refers to information on the water, flow, water quality, cement sand, groundwater, water quality, mining, rainfall, evaporation, evaporation, water condition, etc. monitoring and integration.

The second article, after the completion of the hydrological monitoring information for the year, shall be communicated to the municipal hydrological institutions by the end of February, in accordance with the provisions.

The municipal hydrological institutions should establish a platform for the sharing of hydrological information to facilitate public access and access to hydrological monitoring information, with the exception of national secrets.

Article 23 Decision-making and public interest in disaster mitigation, defence, public safety and environmental protection require the use of hydrological monitoring information and results; other circumstances require the use of hydrological monitoring information to collect fees in accordance with the provisions.

Article 24 shall conduct an assessment of hydrological water resource surveys in accordance with economic and social development needs.

The assessment of hydrological water resources should be entrusted to institutions with the assessment of the above-mentioned quality of the hydrological water resource survey, and its evaluation results are organized by the municipal water administration authorities.

Article 25 institutions engaged in the evaluation of hydrological water resources should obtain the quality of the survey of hydrological resources in accordance with the law.

The institutions involved in the assessment of hydrological water resources in this city should be registered by the municipal water administration authorities and subject to the supervision of the municipal water administration authorities.

Chapter V

No units or individuals shall be expropriated, destroying hydrology stations, water sizes, hydro cables, monitoring of orbits and terminals, monitoring sites, monitoring wells, monitoring signs, specialized roads, basic (school nuclear) standards, instrument equipment, hydro-communication facilities and subsidiary facilities, and shall not be used and mobile hydrological monitoring facilities.

The hydrological monitoring facilities at the municipal hydrology stations, which have been damaged by the destruction of water, fire, downturn, storm surges and earthquakes, should be organized in a timely manner by the people and water administration authorities to ensure their normal functioning.

Any units and individuals in Article 27 have the obligation to protect hydrological monitoring facilities and the environment.

Hydrographic institutions should work with the local water administration authorities to develop programmes for the monitoring of the scope of environmental protection of hydrological stations under their jurisdiction, and to establish protection signs following approval by the Government of the people of the location.

Article 28 provides that the scope of environmental protection shall be determined in accordance with the following criteria:

(i) Recovering the rivers: the hydrographic test on the above-mentioned rivers, 1000 metres downstreams, and 500 metres from other rivers;

(ii) Testing facilities: hydro cables operating rooms, pyrotechnics (pillars) and vincs, hydro-susing platforms, water meteries, hydro systems instrument rooms, hydro-communication facilities, etc.;

(iii) Hydrographic observation sites: 10 metres away from hydrological observation sites; 10 outside of the observation site, the distance between the object and the observation instrument cannot be less than two times the aximum of the barrier and the instrument.

Article 29 prohibits the following activities in the context of hydrological monitoring of environmental protection:

(i) The cultivation of high-tit crops, the storage of sand, coal, etc., the construction of buildings, constructions and the suspension of vessels;

(ii) The extraction, excavation, sabotage and dumping of wastes;

(iii) To monitor the access to water, drainage, and to establish routes over river equipment, meteorological observation sites, monitoring of interfaces;

(iv) To lay down a pipeline, establish barriers, establish a chain of fish, cake, and beating livestock on a water scale (provincing);

(v) Toolkit breeding, planting, burning, kilns and futilization;

(vi) Other activities that endanger the safety of hydrological monitoring facilities, interfere with the operation of hydrological monitoring facilities and affect hydrological monitoring results.

Article 33, which monitors new construction, alteration, expansion in the context of environmental protection in the context of hydrology monitoring in the Quaid River paragraph, may affect hydrological monitoring, should entrust the institution with the evaluation of the quality of the hydrological resource survey at the level above, take the appropriate measures and apply to the municipal hydrological institutions to build upon the agreement of the management watershed management body or the water administration authorities.

As a result of engineering construction, the cost of the alteration of hydrology stations is borne by the construction unit and no less than the original standard after the alteration of hydrology stations.

In carrying out hydrological monitoring by hydrological monitors on rivers, roads and bridges, it is important that, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State, the ship, vehicles should be downgraded or avoided and that the sectors, such as public security, transport, and local maritime administrations, should be assisted.

The dedicated vehicle for hydrological monitoring (catch) is carrying out urgent tasks such as fire prevention and detection of sudden-on-cidental water contamination, through roads, bridges, ship gates, which should be given priority by the relevant units and should be exempted from roads, bridges, flooding.

Chapter VI Legal responsibility

Article 32, Staff of the State play a role in the management of hydrology, abuse of authority, provocative fraud, and administrative disposal of the competent and other persons directly responsible for direct responsibility, in accordance with the law, constitute a crime and hold criminal responsibility under the law.

Article 33, in violation of article 29 of this approach, lays down lines within the context of hydrological monitoring of environmental protection, lobstered livestock, plant planting or burning, kilns, futility, and is liable by the water administration authorities to stop the violation, to restore the status quo or to take other remedies, and to impose a fine of more than 200 dollars.

Article 34, in violation of the provisions of this approach, provides for penalties under the law.

Chapter VII

Article 55 of this approach is implemented effective 1 October 2013.