This plan was from April 18, 2014 to April 17, 2015, all the works has been completed within schedule.
Statistics shows Lunbei monitor station’s unhealthful days (PSI>100) has gradually decreased after 2009. From 14 days in 2009, 5 days in 2010, to just one day in 2011 (non river dust), 2012 has 3 days, but 2013 has 11 days where the air condition are classified as unhealthful days. As of December 30th of 2014, there has been 8 days in total and it all happened in January and October to December, which receive Jhuoshuei River rivers affected by dust has 6 days, where Northeast winds was polluted by the fugitive particles outside of Taiwan and result in bad condition of air has 2 days.
The project uses satellite aerial map to analyze the exposed beach area of Zhuoshui River over time, the area of the exposed beach has decreased from the 2,281 hectares in January to 1,132 hectares in April because the farmer was planting watermelons. But the area did increase after August’s harvest of watermelon to 1,807 hectares, suggesting the direct association between the exposed beach area and the farmer’s crop. Due to reduced rainfall in Zhuoshui River by this stream flow reduction under the influence of area exposed in December increased to 2,963 hectares.
There have been two meetings where the central and the district government invited the Fourth River Management Office of WRA and Environmental Protection Department to discuss about the problem of suspended participles. There was also a conference at October 8th of 2014 in Transworld Technology University on the “preventative method of Zhuoshui River’s suspended participles”, this conference analyze the preventative strategy on three key elements: the analyzation of the current status of Zhuoshui River, the engineering methods for river dusts, and also the possibilities of planting on river banks and the economic benefits.
Overall it completed a total of 106 actual inspections, including the routine inspections and the inspections on an unhealthful day. To collect and record the situation of the floating dust of the Zhuoshui River for further analyzes.
To strengthen the awareness of the basic rundown procedure and the familiarity of the reaction protocol of coastal village chiefs, the training exercise for the village officials and village chiefs was held 3 times with the participants of 61 people. There has been a drill for notification procedures of the operation in July 14th, 2014, the drill targets are mostly the 27 village chiefs and village officials in the Shiluo Township.
In November 11th, 2014, there was a drill on “Protection of Zhuoshui River’s dust” where scenario recreates the possibility of suspended particles of Zhuoshui River, so that every department of the County Government can work cooperative efficiently at crisis like this, overall units deployed in this exercise were 15 units, the participating staff of 120 people.
During the duration of the report, the news ticker on television broadcast for 30 days, the local radio stations for 300 times, to advocate the general public on the awareness of the protection and prevention of the floating dust of Zhuoshui River.
