This project was mainly to assist the Environmental Protection Bureau (Nantou EPB) of the Nantou County Government in carrying out the “water pollution source inspection and control plan in Nantou County 2016”. All tasks in the plan have been put into action, including “checking of the wastewater discharge”, “functional examination of industrial wastewater treatment facilities”, “Assistance with water pollution control measure plans and review of all relevant permission documents, on-site check and counseling flaw improvement”, “holding water pollution prevention and control explanation meetings”, “wastewater sample examination”, “Investigation and blocking or removal of underground pipes”. With full support from the EPB of the Nantou County Government, this project had been 100% completed during the execution period. The executive results of all the tasks are described as follows. 1. When checking country controlled industrial wastewater or water pollution cases, and the parameters of wastewater treatment facilities, our team had finished 189 reports during the project period, contains complete livestock industry wastewater treatment facilities functional check 189, which was more than the contract-required 150 reports. Therefore, our team achieved 100% of this task. 2. As for sampling of wastewater from industrial effluent points, we had analyzed samples from 92 points, which was more the contract-required 60 points. The sampling results demonstrated that 70 points were qualified, and 22 were unqualified (14 of these unqualified were from livestock industry, and 8 from other country controlled industrial units) 3. We had completed functional examination of industrial wastewater treatment facilities 5 times. 4. A total of 109 water pollution permit application cases were reviewed, including the most water pollution control measures, the simple emission permitting documents followed by the discharge of the ground water permit. 5. Four explanation meetings had been held to promote water pollution prevention and control measures for 482 companies, and attendance rate reached 69.3% (334 attendants). 6. Regarding the investigation and blocking or removal of underground pipes, there were 7 cases discovered, and these were removed or blocked by the EPB of the Nantou County Government and our team. For this work, we estimated an elimination of 172.83 kg/day of BOD. 7. To establish the river monitoring and patrol system, we had undertaken education and training programs for volunteers 8 times. Altogether, 857 river volunteers helped with the 61 clean-up river events and collected 8,504.6 kg of garbage and 121 kg of recycled material.

Water pollution source,inspection and control