The main water pollution sources can be classified into household sewage and industrial wastewater. The ultimate resolution to household sewage is the construction of sewage system which directs all sewage from each house to sewage treatment plant before discharging into the rivers. Furthermore, Industrial wastewater management will require measures from government bodies such as discharge and permit audit, wastewater treatment facility inspection, and consultation to the management of wastewater. Due to the insufficient of funding, resources and technologies, the Environmental Protection Bureau of Taoyuan County (TYEPB) has initiated the Water Pollution Scientific Investigation and Management on Nan Kang River and Lao Jie River Project to invite consulting bodies to assist in water pollution prevention businesses. The performance of major tasks in the project and the execution results are stated as follows: The project had established a group of specialists to undertake 18 wastewater treatment facilities (WTF) functional inspections and to provide pragmatic suggestions for the management of WTF. The project had completed onsite in-depth water pollution permit audit and investigation to 103 factories. Among those 103 factories, 63 factories fall short of Water Pollution Act, 51 factories’ WTF processes or operations did not meet their water pollution prevention permit, and 15 factories were suspected to have illicit discharge. The project had recorded the investigation results, and filed to the TYEPB. The TYEPB had taken necessary administration actions to accuse and fine 31 factories. In addition, the project had successfully implemented scientific instruments such as automatic water quality monitoring system, 3G video surveillance camera and LED inner pipe recording facility in the investigation of 30 illicit discharges. All the illicit discharges had been removed and their owners were fined and forced to improve their WTF. In order to monitor the storm drainages water quality of industrial zone or park, a total of 62 sites with 756 points of water quality sampling were executed. It was found that the overall pass rate of WTF discharges of 11 industrial zones were 86.3%, and the overall pass rate of storm drainage of all industrial zone were 95.2%. The project had forwarded the abnormal sampling analysis results to associated industrial zone service center to allow improvement on wastewater treatment efficiency. In addition to industrial zone wastewater management, the project had conducted three industrial zone self-management conferences in May, September, and December of 2012 to encourage industrial zone service center placing more efforts and attentions in water pollution prevention of industrial zone. Furthermore, the project had implemented Skynet water pollution monitoring system on Da Keng Chue Creek. In the first stage of execution, the project had conducted a thorough investigation on the water quantity and quality of the creek and based on the surveyed information to select four sites for the fixed Skynet water pollution monitoring system installation. The second stage was to successfully install 4 monitoring sites at Long Tang Technology Park wastewater discharge, Da Keng Chue Bridge, Pingjhen Industrial Zone discharge, and Pingjhen Bridge. The main functions of the Skynet included 1. continuously water quality monitoring, the substance of monitoring were pH, Temperature, Dissolved Oxygen, Electrical Conductivity and Suspended Solid; 2. river water environment 24hrs surveillance monitoring; 3. abnormal water quality message warning. The third stage of the project was to conduct two user training sessions to allow users familiarizing the functions of the system. The Skynet water monitoring system was continuously in operation for 6 months, and was routinely maintained fortnightly. Throughout the operation, the system had detected 21 abnormal incidents. In follow up of those abnormalities, the project had applied mobile Skynet water pollution monitoring systems in the investigation of the pollution resources. The project had successfully determined seven water pollution sources and forwarded to the TYEPB to take legal actions against the polluters.

Waste Water Discharge Onsite Inspection, Management of Water Pollution in Industrial Zone, Skynet Pollution Monitoring System