“2013 Tainan City’s Construction sites Management and Inspection Project” (the project) , which executed from January to December, 2013(the period), is a continuing project carried out the past years’ rountin on inspecting the construction sites and promoting latest relvent regulations. During the period, there were 7,620 new construction sites decleard the Air Pollution Control Fees, collected total amout of NT$ 126,818,679 (149 new construction sites were required to declare, but exempted from collecting air pollution control fee). One of major target in the project is reducing the TSP emission by inspecting sites’ air pollution control facilities. The estimated TSP emission of 10,475 sites that under contstution was 12,526.47 tons. Through the project’s managment, 8,594 construction sites were inspected, the control rate was 82%. The actual TSP emission downed to 4942.93 tons, and thus the average reducing rate was 60.54%.
Rice is the major agriculture product of Tainan city, but the traditional open-burning caused air pollution after harvest season. For this reason, the project made “Non-Open-Burning Article” agreement with 245 contracted farmers among 4 rice manufacturing associations, total rice paddy reached 984 hectares. However, there were still 603 sites occurred open-buring mainly during 3pm-5pm, burning area were 131.72 hectares. The project’s members assisted to put out fire on 47.17 hectares, the control rate was 37.71 %.
Moreover, the project conducted the Barren Land Investigation ＆ Consulting Improvement, which discoverd 66 barren lands, total of 100.53 hectare, including 51.78 hectare of normal barren land and 48.75 hectate of river barren lands. On the other sector of Consuling Improvement, there are 29 uncover-suface sites improved under the project consulted, the improving area are 73.60 hectare, including 38.39 hectare of normal barren land and 35.21 hectate of river barren lands.
In oreder to promote the importance of air polloution control with latest government regulation. The project held 2 explanatory conferences for general construction sites, 2 “Non-Open-Burning” explanation session, 5 explanatory session to those sites which were heavy polluated or listed under major construction sites , and published 12 news. In addtion, the project has been completed the implantation of " Tainan City Construction Site Air Pollution Fee Online Reporting System" by the end of Jun, and launched to general public Since July 1, 2013.
