More and more reservoirs are now contracted by private parties. Is this legal and reasonable?

The main functions of the reservoir are flood control, power generation, irrigation, water supply, breeding, tourism, etc. At present, there are more than 84,000 reservoirs in our country, with a total storage capacity of more than 490 billion cubic meters.

Reservoirs are divided into large, medium and small reservoirs in accordance with the "Grading Classification and Flood Standards of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering". Small reservoirs include small (1) type and small (2) type reservoirs. Due to different builders, they are divided into state-owned reservoirs (reservoirs built by local people's governments at or above the county level), self-built reservoirs (reservoirs built by power, water supply and other units) and collective reservoirs (reservoirs built by rural collective economic organizations).

1. Can private parties contract reservoirs?

According to Articles 10 and 11 of the "Fisheries Law of the People's Republic of China", as long as the state-owned reservoirs are suitable for aquaculture, they can be provided to units owned by the whole people, collectively owned units and Individual contracting is used to develop the breeding industry, but it must be approved by the county-level people's government, the fishery administrative department of the county-level people's government, or the reservoir management department designated by the county-level people's government before contracting can be carried out. In other words, private individuals can contract reservoirs. 2. Which department is responsible for reservoir safety?

According to the relevant provisions of the "Notice on Further Clarifying and Implementing the Main Responsibilities of Small Reservoir Management and Basic Requirements for Operation and Management Personnel" issued by the Ministry of Water Resources, people's governments at all levels have overall responsibility for the safety of small reservoirs within their respective administrative regions. ; Water administrative departments at all levels are responsible for the supervision and guidance of the safety management of all small reservoirs (including reservoirs not managed by water conservancy systems) within their respective administrative areas; the reservoir administrative departments (or property owners) are responsible for the safety management responsibilities of their own small reservoirs; reservoir management The unit (or management and maintenance personnel) is responsible for reservoir dispatching and operation, daily safety management and engineering maintenance, etc.

In other words, if you encounter a situation such as reservoir collapse, you should promptly report it to the local people's government or relevant authorities.

In order to further improve the reservoir and dam safety responsibility system, the "Notice of the Ministry of Water Resources on Publishing the List of Persons Responsible for the Safety of Large Reservoirs and Dams nationwide" issued by the Ministry of Water Resources in March 2019 announced the results of 679 large-scale reservoirs and dams in the country in 2019. List of persons responsible for reservoir and dam safety. Judging from the 2019 "List of Persons Responsible for the Safety of Large Reservoirs and Dams in the Country", the persons responsible for the reservoir include three-level persons responsible for the government, the person responsible for the competent department and the person responsible for the reservoir management unit. The following is a list of people responsible for the safety of some large reservoirs and dams in Hunan: Editor Search Pictures

3. Where to report damage to reservoirs and dams?

According to the relevant provisions of the "Regulations on Reservoir and Dam Safety Management", reservoir dams (hereinafter referred to as dams) and their facilities are protected by the state, and no unit or individual may occupy or destroy them. Dam management units should strengthen dam safety and security. Activities that endanger the safety of the dam, such as blasting, digging wells, quarrying, mining, sand dredging, soil extraction, and grave repairing, are prohibited within the scope of dam management and protection. So where do you report damage to a reservoir dam?

According to the relevant provisions of Article 29 of the "Regulations on Reservoir and Dam Safety Management", blasting, well digging, quarrying, mining, earth borrowing, sand dredging, etc. are carried out within the scope of dam management and protection. Those who build graves or other activities that endanger dam safety shall be ordered by the dam authority to stop illegal activities, compensate for losses, take remedial measures, and may also impose a fine; if public security management penalties should be imposed, the public security organs shall in accordance with the "People's Liberation Army of China" Penalties stipulated in the Public Security Administration Punishment Law of the People's Republic of China; if it constitutes a crime, criminal responsibility shall be pursued in accordance with the law.