Shenyang reports a large amount of white foam floating in a river: an enterprise upstream poorly stored hand sanitizer production materials that entered the river.

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11/08/2025
On the evening of August 9th, the ecological environment department of Shenyang City discovered a large amount of foam in the Bai Zhipai River branch in the White Tower Fort area. They immediately worked with the Hunnan District to investigate the upstream of the river and simultaneously carried out water quality monitoring. The data showed that the anionic surfactant in the problematic section of the river exceeded the standard by 0.38 times. That night, the Hunnan District cleaned up the foam in the river, and by early morning the next day, all the foam in the river had been cleaned up. After investigation, it was found that the reason for the large amount of foam was that a detergent production company upstream of the river stored detergent production raw materials on the side of the river. Due to improper storage, the raw materials entered the river and formed a large amount of foam after being stirred by the "waterfall dam". Currently, the public security organs are cooperating with the ecological environment department to conduct a case investigation of the company involved.