From the rumbling sound from the nearby construction site, the hustle and bustle of the boarding house upstairs, the music of the KTV in the early morning, to the live broadcast of the goods and the shouting of goods in the square...... In life, all kinds of noise are unbearable. With the rapid development of cities, noise pollution is increasing.
Since 2003, April 16 has been officially designated as "World Noise Day", hoping that more and more people can understand this "invisible killer" through the promotion of noise pollution and other related knowledge.
Sound is ubiquitous in life, but when the sound is too noisy and has a negative impact on people and the surrounding environment, noise pollution is formed, which not only interferes with people's life and work, but also may damage hearing and induce a variety of diseases. It is understood that about 60 decibels - 70 decibels will affect people's normal sleep and rest. The sound of 70 decibels - 100 decibels will make people upset, lose concentration, and even affect work efficiency and accidents. Above 120 decibels, total deafness can occur. If people are exposed to high-noise environments for a long time, it will cause cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases: the incidence of hypertension, arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease is 2-3 times higher than that of ordinary people.
Recently, the 24-hour news hotline 029-88880000 of Huashang Daily has received many complaints from citizens about noise problems, to see what noise the citizens of Xi'an are disturbed by?
The KTV downstairs was too loud After reporting to the public security organs, the sound was much quieter
"KTV seriously affects the lives of our upstairs residents, sometimes the family is woken up in the middle of the night, and the problem still exists. On April 7, some citizens reported that they and their families rented a commercial and residential building in the west section of the South Second Ring Road in Xi'an, and there were many shops on the street, "In August and September last summer, a new KTV was opened downstairs, and since then our home has been plagued by noise, and many parties have reported complaints, and the problem has not been solved." ”
"During this period, I called 110 and 12345 more than once, and each time it was restored to the previous one after a few days, and once I also found the property, hoping to reconcile it but it still didn't work. Citizens said that the noise of the KTV sometimes lasted until two or three o'clock in the morning, and he and his family were woken up many times in a deep sleep, "My wife sometimes can't sleep for half a day at night because of her light sleep, and recently I want to find a house and move again." Citizens said that many residents in the community are accompanying residents to rent and study, and many people have also complained in the owner group, and it is estimated that there are not a few people who complain like him.
"The last time 12345 replied to me was to contact the other party to strengthen the protection of the soft package, so that the sound would not continue to spread through the wall, and I don't know if it will be solved. Said the citizen.
On the morning of April 7, Huashang Daily fed back the problem to the Beilin Branch of the Xi'an Municipal Public Security Bureau. On April 9, the police of the Taibai Road Police Station of the Beilin Branch of the Public Business Bureau said that they had received the complaint and would contact the business for rectification.
On April 9th and 11th, the public twice reported to reporters that since the 7th to the Huashang Daily, the noise of the KTV downstairs has been much smaller, and the family and children have been able to rest and study well in recent evenings, "I hope that the business can be completely rectified this time, and the residents upstairs will have a quiet living and living environment." ”
Q&A: If you encounter bar or KTV noise, dial 110
KTV, bars...... Similar entertainment venues are very common in urban life, but if bars and KTVs are opened downstairs in the community, it will inevitably affect the life and rest of ordinary people.
During the interview, the citizens also said that when 12345 and the public security police visited before, they would say that they could not ask the KTV to suspend business from the perspective of noise, and once the noise exceeded the standard, they would contact and persuade them in time, and at the same time require the place to install soundproof facilities inside to reduce the impact on the surrounding residents.
According to the requirements of the "Implementation Plan for the Work of Mitigating Noise Nuisance in Xi'an City", the public security department is responsible for the supervision of other social noise and vehicle noise. In areas where noise-sensitive buildings are concentrated, it is not allowed to engage in production and business activities that use mechanical methods to cut or process metal, stone, wood and other materials, as well as other production and business activities that produce noise and interfere with the normal rest of residents. The use of electrical appliances, musical instruments, or other activities such as entertainment and physical exercise indoors must not interfere with the normal life of surrounding residents.
Owners or users of motor vehicles and non-motor vehicles shall standardize the installation and reasonable use of vehicle anti-theft alarm devices to prevent noise generated by anti-theft alarm devices from interfering with the surrounding environment. Drivers of motor vehicles are not allowed to honk their horns in no-honking areas, road sections and time periods.
The neighbor's decoration drill was harsh, and the property said that it could not manage too much decoration at the specified time
"My mom couldn't stand the noise of that drill. Recently, Ms. Wang, who lives in a community of Tuanjie South Road, Xi'an City, reported to Huashang Daily that her community has been built for more than ten years, and because of the good location, there are many people who buy second-hand houses in the community in recent years, resulting in owners in the unit building from time to time to renovate and renovate second-hand houses, and decoration noise problems often plague other owners in the building. Recently, Ms. Wang's No. 7 building is a resident of the renovation again, and often use electric drills, "from day to night, the sound of electric drills has basically not stopped, the elderly in the family can't stand it, we complained to the property, the property actually said that they have no law enforcement power, can't manage." ”
Ms. Wang really had no choice, she ran to the neighbor's house to decorate, only the decoration workers were there, and they were holding an electric drill to drill bathroom tiles, she asked if she could whisper that there were elderly people at home who couldn't stand it, who knew that the decoration workers actually said, "Let the old people go out for a walk, don't stay at home and let it be inaudible." ”
On the afternoon of April 7, the reporter came to Ms. Wang's community, and on the north side of Building 7, the sound of electric drills could be clearly heard. "If the owner renovates within the specified time, we have no right to interfere. The person in charge of the property of the community said that in order to prevent noise from disturbing other owners, the community has been stipulating that decoration construction with obvious noise cannot be carried out on holidays and weekends, and the construction time is 9:00-12:00 and 14:00-18:00 on weekdays.
"If the renovation worker decorates at an allowable time, we will immediately send someone to stop it after the property inspection finds it or the owner complains. The person in charge of the property said, but if the other party renovates at the specified time, the property really can't manage too much.
Q&A: Who is in charge of decoration noise?
In the interview, the reporter learned that when encountering the problem of decoration noise in the community, many citizens said that they did not know who to report that the property had no law enforcement power, and the environmental protection department said that it was not under their control.
The Regulations on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Noise Pollution in Xi'an stipulate that the competent department of ecology and environment is responsible for the supervision and management of noise generated by industrial noise, construction noise and fixed equipment in commercial, cultural and entertainment business premises.
The departments in charge of comprehensive law enforcement for urban management are responsible for the oversight and management of noise generated by the use of sound, whipping tops, whipping, and other methods in public venues such as publicity celebrations, cultural entertainment, and physical fitness in public venues such as streets, squares, and parks in urban built-up areas, as well as the use of sound at commercial outlets on the street to produce noise.
The public security organs are responsible for the supervision and management of noise from social life and noise generated by vehicles other than those mentioned above.
China's Law on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Noise Pollution also stipulates that the operation time shall be limited and other effective measures shall be taken to reduce and avoid environmental noise pollution to surrounding residents for interior decoration activities in residential buildings that have been completed and put into use. Environmental noise emitted from the home room that seriously interferes with the lives of surrounding residents is to be given a warning by the public security organs, and a fine may be imposed concurrently. If the public encounters the problem of decoration noise nuisance, they can call 110 or contact the police station in the jurisdiction to complain about it.
Upstairs, the "group of tenants" made noise in the middle of the night, and the streets and communities urged the property to strengthen management
On April 7, some netizens reported to Huashang Daily that there were houses rented to the outside world in a small area of Xinghua Xiang Lane in Xi'an City, and more than a dozen young people lived in them, and these people walked back and forth in the house without slippers at 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning every day, making loud noises, which seriously affected the rest of the residents downstairs.
In response to this problem, the reporter contacted the Zhangjiacun Sub-district Office of Beilin District, Xi'an City, and received a reply on April 9 that it was understood that the owner of the rental house rented the house to a catering company in March this year, and the catering company used the house as a staff dormitory, so there were more people living there. Subsequently, the street office and the community under its jurisdiction urged the property management company to strengthen the management of property services on the matter of "group rental housing disturbing the people", requiring the property management company to explain the situation to the homeowner and persuading the residents of the house to disturb the people at night to avoid such things.
Q&A: Group rents and partition rooms are prone to noise, what should residents do when they encounter them?
In January 2023, some citizens left messages reflecting that with the development of the city, there are more and more boarding houses in various communities in Xi'an, and the boarding houses are rented out in partitions, and the residents are many and miscellaneous, and the living style is completely different from that of normal residents, and there are prominent noise disturbance problems, fire safety problems, and public security problems. And the development of boarding houses seems to be unsupervised, and complaints and reports are running into walls everywhere.
To this end, the Xi'an Municipal Bureau of Housing and Urban-Rural Development replied that the problem of boarding houses in Xi'an is widespread, with noise disturbances, fire safety, and public security problems. In order to standardize the management of the housing rental market and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the parties to housing leases, Xi'an issued the Administrative Measures for Regulating the Housing Rental Market in Xi'an (hereinafter referred to as the "Measures") in September 2020, which regulates the minimum unit, maximum number of tenants and minimum per capita rental area standards for rental housing. At the same time, it is clarified that kitchens, toilets, balconies and underground storage rooms shall not be rented out for human habitation. If the public finds that there are illegal leasing behaviors in the daily rental housing process, according to the principle of territorial management, they can provide illegal materials to report to the relevant management departments of the district and county where the rental housing is located, and investigate and deal with the suspected illegal leasing behaviors.
The noise of garbage removal in the early morning in the community disturbs the people, and the street requires the cleaning time to be adjusted and the noise reduced
At the end of March this year, Ms. Wang, who lives in a community near the Chengxi Bus Station in Xi'an City, reported to Huashang Daily that the removal and transportation of domestic garbage in the community was undertaken by the Zaoyuan Street Office of Lianhu District, and the garbage was removed at half past 5 in the morning every day, which seriously affected the rest of the residents of the two surrounding communities.
"I have to go to work during the day and take care of my family and children at night, and sometimes I feel like I don't have energy for a day. Ms. Wang said that the average time to remove garbage is half an hour, and she cannot sleep after waking up.
To this end, the reporter promptly fed back the problem to the Zaoyuan Sub-district Office of Lianhu District. After receiving the reply that after receiving the complaints from residents, they immediately contacted the cleaning driver to investigate, and the situation was found to be true. The street office immediately arranged rectification, installed sound insulation devices on the cleaning vehicles, and reduced the volume of vehicle operations; organized garbage removal drivers to hold a working meeting to adjust and postpone the removal time of domestic garbage in the community, and once again emphasized that it is necessary to work softly and standardize the operation during the cleaning and transportation, reduce noise as much as possible, and maintain a quiet and comfortable living environment for the citizens.
Recently, Ms. Wang said that there was a delay in the time of garbage removal and the sound was quieter.
Q&A: You can report to the district street office or urban management bureau to negotiate to determine the collection and transportation time
On this matter, the reporter learned from a visit to a community property that the time for garbage collection is uniformly regulated, mainly based on the need to catch up before most people get up, because when going to work and school, the flow of people in the community is more complicated, and if the garbage is collected at this time, it will cause inconvenience to the masses.
"Xi'an municipal solid waste classification management regulations" chapter IV article 28 mentions, solid waste classification collection, transportation should be carried out in accordance with the following provisions: the implementation of recyclables reservation or regular collection, transportation, by the solid waste put or solid waste classification put management responsible person and collection, transportation unit negotiation to determine the collection and transportation time;
In recent years, Huashang Daily has also received clues from many residents in the city who have complained about the noise of garbage removal in the community, in addition to the noise generated during garbage removal, there is also the noise of property personnel collecting and sorting garbage in the early morning. In order to solve such problems, the urban management bureau will jointly study with the district street office, community property and community departments to discuss the noise problem caused by garbage removal and transportation.
The construction site is noisy at night, and the ecological environment department has asked for strict implementation of noise reduction measures
Recently, Ms. Liu, a citizen, reported that a new real estate was opened opposite the four seasons Chang'an community on Fudong Road, Chang'an District, Xi'an, and in recent times, construction has often been carried out from more than 12 o'clock in the middle of the night to 6 o'clock in the morning the next day, and the sound of various construction machinery is very loud, so noisy that residents can not sleep peacefully at night.
On April 8, the reporter visited the community and found that there was indeed a construction site opposite it. A resident of Four Seasons Chang'an Community said that from the end of March to the present, the night construction noise at the opposite construction site is really annoying, "Our residents reported to the relevant departments, but the reply was that the construction site has a night construction permit and allows night construction." The resident wondered if he could "legally disturb the people" if he had a night construction permit?
In response to this problem, the Chang'an Branch of the Xi'an Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment replied that after investigation, the project reported by the public is currently in the main construction and earthwork removal stage, and the construction content is concrete pouring and earthwork removal. In accordance with Articles 27 and 28 of the Administrative Measures for the Certification of Night Construction Operations in Xi'an and the Regulations on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Noise Pollution in Xi'an, the project unit has applied to the Chang'an Branch of the Xi'an Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment for the filing of night construction. The Chang'an Branch of the Xi'an Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment also issued a certificate of night construction work to the project unit in accordance with laws and regulations, of which the night construction of concrete pouring should not exceed two times a week, and the total of two times should not exceed three days. The Chang'an Branch of the Xi'an Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment will file the project unit in strict accordance with relevant laws and regulations.
In response to the problem of noise disturbance of the project, the Chang'an Branch of the Xi'an Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment has interviewed the project builder, the project manager of the construction party, and the person in charge of the site, and asked them to strictly implement noise reduction measures. In addition, before night construction work, it is necessary to publicize it in advance at the entrance of the construction site and in a conspicuous position in the surrounding community, and take the initiative to explain to the surrounding residents and strive for their understanding.
Q&A: "Proof of night construction work" also means that the construction is not restricted
In response to the public's suggestion that with the "certificate of night construction work", can the construction site be "legally disturbed to the people" without the requirement of noise decibels, and carry out construction at will?
In this regard, the Xi'an Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment said that the "Night Construction Operation Certificate" is set in accordance with Article 28 of the "Xi'an Environmental Noise Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations", and the construction unit applies for the jurisdiction, and the competent department of ecology and environment reviews it to prove that the night construction behavior meets the requirements of the production process or special needs, and the noise restriction problem is not directly and necessarily related to the night construction.
For construction sites that have obtained the "Night Construction Operation Certificate", the competent department of ecology and environment of the jurisdiction will clearly put forward the noise control requirements in the "Night Construction Operation Certificate", such as requiring the construction unit to organize the construction scientifically and reasonably according to the actual situation, and the construction vehicles and operation areas should avoid residential areas as much as possible. The competent department of ecology and environment in the jurisdiction will also appropriately reduce the number of approvals and issuance of the "Night Construction Operation Certificate" at the project site according to the complaints of residents. The competent department of ecology and environment is issued through the "Night Construction Operation Certificate", which plays a role in balancing the contradictions. If residents are troubled by noise, they can report and seek help from the competent department of ecology and environment in time.
There are people in the small square who "live broadcast the goods" The urban management department dissuaded the most effective on the spot
"It's too loud, it's so noisy that the baby is restless at home, and she can't study at all!" At about 7:30 p.m. on April 9, Ms. Zhao, who lives in a small area of Keji Road in Xi'an City, reported to Huashang Daily, saying that there is a square green space on the north side of the community, and five or six men and women came in the evening, setting up a battle in the square, breathing fire, juggling, and singing. ”
At about 8 o'clock in the evening of April 9, the reporter saw in a green square in the west section of Keji Road that Ms. Zhao's community was about forty or fifty meters away from the square, and the singing and noise downstairs could be clearly heard in Ms. Zhao's house.
The reporter saw that speakers were placed in the square, several men were selling small toys with payment codes, and a man on the side was holding a microphone to sell small toys to onlookers.
Because of the noise harassment, some citizens at the scene called the Xi'an City Management Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Corps High-tech Zone Detachment to complain, about 10 minutes or so, law enforcement officers rushed to the scene, asked the person selling toys to lower the volume, at this time, Ms. Zhao's home was quiet.
In a similar matter, Mr. Li recently reported that there are several groups of square dance teams in a square in the western section of Youyi Road every night, because the place is next to the hospital and the community, and the noise disturbance is particularly prominent.
Mr. Li said that many residents in the surrounding area had complained about this matter before, and the urban management department and the community also reminded them to reduce the volume on the spot, "but after a few days, the sound gradually became louder again." ”
At about 8 o'clock in the evening of April 8, the reporter came to the square, and found that a total of 4 groups of teams played sound and danced, and two of them were louder. In addition to playing music, a group of people dancing folk dances also played tambourine on the spot, which made the sound louder. The square is only separated from the surrounding communities and hospitals by a road, and even if you stand across the road, you can hear the music more clearly.
In response to this situation, the staff of the Beilin District Urban Management Bureau said that they would strengthen inspections in the near future, reminding the other party that they must exercise within the specified time and reduce the volume of the speaker.
Q&A: Can't manage the noise of mass entertainment activities?
In the interview, the reporter found that some citizens reported that in public green spaces, squares and other areas, square dancing, singing, and live broadcasts disturbed the people. Some people who dance square dances or live broadcasts say that why should law enforcement officers interfere in mass entertainment activities?
The "Regulations on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Noise Pollution in Xi'an" stipulates that in commercial business activities and for-profit cultural and entertainment activities, it is forbidden to use loudspeakers, high-power audio equipment or other methods that emit high noise to solicit customers; If the above activities are carried out at other times, the environmental noise generated shall not exceed the regional environmental noise emission standards. If such problems are encountered, the public can report to the urban management department of the jurisdiction, and the law enforcement officers will deal with it.
When you encounter noise pollution, you can call the 12345 citizen hotline
The Xi'an Regulations on the Prevention and Control of Environmental Noise Pollution came into force on 1 February 2015 and was last amended in November 2020. Resource planning, housing and construction, transportation, cultural tourism, and market supervision are all responsible for their respective duties, but sometimes it is difficult for citizens to distinguish, and when encountering noise pollution, they can call the 12345 citizen hotline to reflect.
In addition, residents' committees and villagers' committees shall assist administrative departments such as ecology and environment, public security, and urban management to do a good job in sound environmental protection work, mediate neighborhood disputes caused by environmental noise, and carry out publicity and education on the prevention and control of environmental noise pollution. Property service enterprises shall discourage environmental noise pollution in the management area, and if the dissuasion is ineffective, they shall promptly report to the ecological environment or public security and urban management departments.
Huashang Daily Gale News reporter Yang Ping Ma Qun
Source: Huashang Net-Huashang Daily