The Tainan City Anping Harbor area’s pollution prevention plan is covered by a one-year implementation period, which spans from June 23, 2009 to June 22, 2010, and the implementation results are separately described as follows,
I. The Anping Harbor area’s roaming inspection control work
(1) The project has conducted a total of 245 roaming inspections, and a total of 473 roaming inspections made to various sites, where the compliance ratio to the management measures has risen from 27% in the initial three months to 100% as of the implementation cutoff date, with improvement notices given to 13 cases found with minor deficiencies and 2 cases of major deficiencies, which have all surpassed the subsequent inspection, with the overall improvement ratio at 100%.(2) Completing a total of seven cases of the harbor area’s pollution prevention facility alternative developmental filing cases.(3)Completing the Anping Harbor pollution prevention facility’s improvement follow-up work, with the instilment of three automatic carwash platforms and one improved automatic carwash platform; with plans to complete the design of the harbor area’s enclosed warehouse storage facility, apply for the building permit and kick off the project prior to June 24, 2010.(4) Completing the gravel loading and unloading work’s developmental improvement work by improving the deficiency of excessive height on vessel unloading, installing automatic sprinklers at the conveyor relay points, incorporating preventive devices to prevent the forklifts from crushing the sprinkler facility.(5) The harbor area’s pollution prevention funding has been brought up from $30.3 million in 2009 to $90 million in 2009.(6) The transport vehicles’ canvas cover pull-down control results have seen the use of the dust-preventing cover ratio from 24% in June 2009 to 100% as of the implementation project’s cutoff date, and the vehicle license plate recognition system’s success ratio has reached 97%.(7) Conducting the direct intercepting inspection work at the harbor area’s control stations to improve the harbor area’s diesel vehicles voluntary management streamlining ratio, and the statistics shows that the streamlining ratio on diesel vehicles registered in Tainan City has reached 100% before July 1, 2010.(8) Studying and drafting the stepped-up air pollution criteria, and announcing the content of the draft bill on the Anping Harbor’s specific air quality zone.
II. The Anping Harbor area’s pollution monitoring and testing work
(1) A total of nine spots of the mobile TSP (periphery) testing has been conducted focusing on the harbor area’s gravel loading and unloading area, and the results of the screening found all tests to comply with the legal standards, with the median screening value at 178 ug/m3, which has been lowered when compared with the history median screening value of 382 ug/m3.(2) In facilitating the city to conduct a total of eleven TSP screening on fixed pollution source of permeable sites, with twice made to asphalt mixers, one to a cement fabrication plant, six to stockpile sites, all have been found to comply with legal standard ratings.(3)Of the 24-hour air quality monitoring, the integrated results show that the harbor area’s gravel loading and unloading work has drive the air quality’s NOx, O3 and particle concentration to rise, with the concentration disparity between daytime operation and nighttime non-operating period shows the rating on PM10 reaching 1.7 times (daytime/night), on O3 at approx. 1.4 times, and NOx at approx. 1.2 times; in addition, by observing the correlation of the traffic flow and the pollutant concentration, with the NOx, Co and particle PM10 concentrations on an identical trend, the harbor area’s gravel work and the diesel vehicles have impacted the air pollutant concentration.(4) Following the fallen dust volume monitoring points undergoing the first mid-term review (on December 23, 2009), all monitoring points have been redeveloped starting in January 2010, with the concentration of the monitored fallen dust volume recorded from Jan. 18, 2010 to June 18, 2010 falls between 5.1 ~ 16.8 g/m2/month, which has been found to fall under medium pollution according to the fall dust volume pollution level evaluation criteria announced by the Environmental Protection Administration.(5) A total of 60 fuel quality screening cases has been conducted on operating machinery and equipment, and the results of the sulfuric content and aromatic content have found all to comply with legally designated criteria.
III. Discharge volume reduction estimates
Of the short-, mid- and long-term development for the harbor area’s control measures, which initially have the discharge volume estimated at 647.0 ton/year, the particle discharge in the short term can be cut down to 479.2 tons, with a total reduction ratio of 25.9%; the particle discharge volume for the midterm set is at 110.0 tons, with a total reduction ratio of 83.0%; the particle discharge volume under the long-term preventive measure developed is at 17.4 tons, with a total reduction ratio at 97.3%. In an overview, the best way in particle pollution prevention around the harbor area has been to build the enclosed warehouses, which can effectively reduce the particles’ permeating pollution.
IV. The public’s satisfaction survey
Close to 65% of the general public indicate that the state of dirt brought by gravel trucks or leaky sand has been improved in the most recent tone year, and a majority of the public reckon that it should continue to push the legislative to regulate that the canvas covering the hopper of the gravel trucks needs to be pulled down by 15cm in order to reduce the powder dust from permeating. As a whole, 47% of the general public expressed recognition on the results of the pollution control work at the Anping Harbor area by the Tainan City Environmental Protection Bureau.
V. Staging of contact meetings
A total of seven sessions of meetings have been staged, which include, (1) The Anping Harbor area’s pollution prevention coordination meeting. 2) The Anping Harbor’s diesel vehicles voluntary management and anti-idle and gravel trucks’ cover pull-down policy awareness presentation. (3) The exchange meeting on various counties/municipalities’ harbor area pollution control. (4) The demonstrative meeting for air quality improvement implemented in various counties and municipalities – the Anping Harbor visitation. (5) The Anping commercial port’s air pollution prevention result evaluation meeting (by the EPA). (6) The rezoned area’s exposed land prevention facility coordination meeting. (7) The fixed pollution sources’ permeating particle pollutant’s prevention meeting.
VI. Other relevant work
(1) The press releases cover a total of 19 subject matters, with the completion of one awareness campaign clip on fixed pollution sources’ permeable particle pollutants and air pollution prevention facility management measures, 1,000 copies of the awareness campaign pamphlets, 1,000 copies of the diesel vehicle control campaign inserts, and 1,000 copies of the anti-idle sunshade awareness campaign decals. (2) Instilling the Anping Harbor pollution control database, campaign Webpage, and facilitating verifying factories running permeable operations under the fixed pollution source plan using the management measures. (3) Supporting the city Environmental Protection Bureau to stage the “Supporting the environmental protection, care for the earth – a performing contest and entry solicitation campaign” and the rear-end maintenance work for the “2010 The World Earth Month’s serial event Website” in observing the 40th anniversary of the World Earth Day.
