On August 5, the Municipal Ecology and Environment Bureau organized a review meeting
for the emergency environmental incident "July 12 Kaiping Tangkou electrical insulated
oil tank leakage" in Kaiping City, reviewed and analyzed the entire process of emergency
response to the environmental emergency. The leaders of the Municipal Ecological
Environment Bureau and the 7 sub-bureaus of the city (district) in charge of environmental
emergency and the heads of the unit offices attended the meeting.
At the meeting, the Kaiping Sub-bureau conducted a systematic review and review of the
entire process of handling the emergency environmental incident of "July 12 Kaiping Tangkou
electrical insulated oil tank leakage", and the Municipal Ecological Environment Bureau made
comments. The meeting thought that the Kaiping sub-bureau immediately dispatched and
carried materials and equipment such as oil absorbent pads,oil booms, flood control sandbags
and shovels after receiving the report, and arrived at the scene in less than 40 minutes, and it
was able to rush to the scene as soon as possible; The leaked electrical insulating oil had
entered the highway ditches and was flowing to the downstream irrigation canals. The
emergency personnel on the spot were not waiting and immediately filling the sandbags
with the flood sandbags,they brought to block the highway ditches to prevent the leakage
of pollutants from further spreading, they effectively prevented "small things from turning
nto big incidents." Kaiping City attached great importance to it, and the deputy mayor in
charge of ecological and environmental protection also rushed to the scene to direct the on-site
response and disposal work, quickly mobilized relevant emergency forces, safely transferred
the tank trucks that caused the accident, cut off the source of pollution, and had the suction
and transfer of leaked pollutants, they completed all disposal work well in a short time. The
response to the incident fully demonstrated the leadership's good experience and practices,
such as leader’s attention, rapid response, timely response measures, and adequate preparations
of emergency materials. However, there are still some shortcomings, such as insufficient
preliminary on-site investigations,etc.