"How nice it is that the dirt road used to stumble over miles is now straight and flat. On April 25, Yang Tianzhen, an old man from Jingui Village, Jingui Town, Helan County, pointed to the newly built cement road in front of the door. Since the beginning of spring, Helan County rural sewage collection and treatment project has been fully launched, the construction focus includes the construction or replacement of sewage pipe network, septic tank, hardened pavement, with a total investment of nearly 80 million yuan, the project involves thousands of villagers in 4 towns, and about 70% of the total project volume has been completed.
Rural domestic sewage collection and treatment is one of the top ten livelihood facts in Helan County in 2024. The two sessions of Helan County in 2024 proposed to speed up the construction of livable, workable and beautiful villages, and the rural domestic sewage treatment rate should reach more than 70%.
After the revolution of rural toilets, the problem of sewage became prominent. Many villages either do not have a sewage treatment system, or have inadequate facilities and limited capacity, so they rely on cleaning trucks to pull domestic sewage out, which can lead to sewage seeping down through gravel or directly discharged into farmland. The implementation of rural sewage collection and treatment projects is related to the well-being and health of farmers, and is related to the improvement of rural living environment. In 2021, Helan County issued the "Five-Year Action Plan for the Improvement of Rural Human Settlements", which will make the county's rural sewage treatment rate reach 75% in five years, basically solving the rural sewage problem. Through the first three years of construction, 60% of the concentrated residential villages in Helan County have been renovated.
In Xingfu Village, Ligang Town, the project has entered the final stage.
The new projects started this year are located in 10 villages in Jingui Town, Ligang Town and Xigang Town, and Nuanquan Farm Community in Hongguang Town. In March, Xingfu Village of Ligang Town took the lead in starting construction. Subsequently, Nuanquan Community in Hongguang Town, Wuxing Village in Xigang Town, and Jingui Village in Jingui Town started construction one after another, including the installation of more than 100,000 meters of various sewage pipelines, nearly 2,000 new inspection wells, and some villages also came with measures to benefit the people such as changing street lights.
The construction site of Jingui Village, Jingui Town.
On April 25, the reporter saw in Wuxing Village, Xigang Town, that workers were digging pipe trenches, laying pipelines, and building inspection wells. The road surface after excavation in Jingui Village, Jingui Town, has been backfilled, and some sections of the road have begun to harden. The first construction of Ligang Town Xingfu Village began to pave a new pavement, compared with the original broken and old road bricks, the new road bricks are neat and uniform, very beautiful. Gu Biao, the village director, said happily: "In 2023, our village will build 10 sets of healthy living courtyards, and people in the city will think that our village looks bad. After the completion of the sewage treatment system, the village has taken on a new look, and we are confident that more people will be attracted to retire for the elderly. ”