The Environmental Protection Administration schedules 「the river pollution improvement」projects from 2002. The integrity plans give an impetus to handle the river cruise workshop. By participating of river pollution cruising and pollution notification of people to suppresses the illegal dumpling to river basin. Environmental Protection Bureau of Yilan county gave an 「Yilan Environmental Protection Cruise Teams」army ceremony in Yilan sporty park on March 25 (Thursday) 2004. In order to expand the breadth of river patrol volunteers, from May 99, was named ream of water environment watching and helping in patrolling. In order to continue the river cruise work, the purpose of the plan is to setup integrity of environmental protection cruise system, construction of a cruise organization, examination of notification process and assessment. At the same time, it established the river-care-center to do the platforms of relative works, such as population of environmental protection cruising, the communication, the volunteer education and training, inspection of cruise teams and assessment of the effect. The project started from an contact-signing day to December 31,2011. The related counseling will be continued to Feb. 28 2012. After the river care center was established, counseling the existing environmental protection cruise teams, meeting with all cruise teams, planning year round schedule and assessment of cruise teams. An education and training handbook and a carrying cruising card were made. It total has 16 water environment watching and helping patrolling teams in Yi-lan County. The totally cruising member is 180. The cruising time was 5184 hours which was 28.8 hours per person. The notifications of messy and dirty spots were 109 which were cleaned up. The numbers of illegal wastewater drainage by industries which reported by cruising terms were 3. The total fine was 180,000NT. The educational trainings and activities were held 13 and 9 times which satisfied the contract needed. We also help the communities and students to participate the inspection of river quality and reduction of domestic water. It revised the inspection and the reward part of the “Yilan County to impel the river cruising volunteers plan”. It revised “The competition standard of excellent environmental protection cruising team of Yilan County”. The calculation method of cruising hours was changed to average of the cruising hours of all cruising person times 20. We obtained an excellent grade in Ecolife green-net registration. It had finished the evaluation works about the cruising terms and gave the rewards to the excellent cruising terms and members at the achievement critique meeting. In order to extent the cruising works, the care center will continue the related works.

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