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    East China Province Builds Emergency Environmental Monitoring System

    Xinhuanet 2001.10.09 14:37:09
       NANCHANG, October 9 (Xinhuanet) -- East China's Jiangxi province  has begun to build an emergency monitoring and rapid reaction  center for environmental disasters.
       Officials from Jiangxi Provincial Environmental Protection  Bureau say the computerized system will offer assistance to  relevant departments and personnel to enable them to control  damage in the shortest possible time.
       Xiong Yu, chief engineer of Jiangxi Provincial Monitoring  Center, said Jiangxi has been hit by several major environmental  disasters in the last few years including the leakage of chlorine  in 1994 at Ganjiang Chemical Plant.
       In 1997, a major leakage of chlorine from Jiujiang Chemical  Plant caused air and soil pollution, he said.   Enditem
     
         
     
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