The main task of the project is to assist Environmental Protection Bureau Ping Tung County (PTEPB) and to administer the various programs scheme, subjects and methodologies. By means of the aforementioned implementation, we were able to review on what subjects have been finished over the period of time and helped EPA deal with Air Pollution (AP) agendas and minutes to boot, supervising the integration of the air quality improvement. Besides, the perspectives that the EPA are marching toward better Air Quality (AQ) should again be aligned with our schedule including long-term, mid-term, or short-term goal as a proposition in the control of the AQ in the future. The duration of the project is from 27th January, 2016 to 19th January 2017. The summary of implementation is as follows.
Among the indicative pollutants (PSI>100) measured at the Air Quality inspection stations at Pingtung County in year 2016, the number of days of which poor air quality were reported is 20 days, and is 4 days more than those measured in year 2015. For the indicative pollutants (PSI>100), the number of days of which poor air quality of O3 and PM2.5 were reported as 110 and 171 days, which are 281 days in total. As to the outcome measured at the Yan-Jou station set by Pingtung County, the number of days of which poor air quality was reported were 4 days between January and August 2016, and is 4 days less than those measured between January and August 2015. Currently, O3 and PM10 are the main indicative pollutants in the Pingtung County. When the air quality becomes worse, we will activate the reporting system and report back via the adoption mechanism of each inspection station as well as the tracing of major pollution sources. We will reinforce the controlling actions after poor air quality was reported back. There were 117 days reported in total, and the reducing amount is 76.44 ton for TSP, SOX 0.06 ton for SOX, 0.71 ton for NOX, and 3.68 ton for NMHC. On the whole, the reporting rate of poor air quality is 98%.
There are 25 projects of improving air quality conducted by Pingtung County. They can be categorized into stationary sources, mobile sources, fugitive sources, integrated management and monitoring, and local characteristic research plans. The key points include strengthening local characteristics and improving main issues, collaborating with the EPA and improving the air quality of year 2016 to PSI<3.4%. Besides, in cooperation with the EPA, the indicative performance this year will be focusing on promoting total amount control, improving the control performance of mobile sources, launching sand capturing plan, burning agricultural waste in open spaces and controlling the burning of paper money. The schedule of each project is between 54-100% towards completion. The total implementation rate is 68.1%, and the analysis of achievement is graded as 89.6. Until the end of December, the reducing amount of TSP, PM10, PM2.5, SOX, NOX and NMHC is 5,596.03, 2,660.11, 569.78, 8.43, 71.18 and 206.82 ton, reaching 100% of the target. In promoting air quality purification area, we have accomplished the assessment of 190 purification areas, and reached 1.008 hectares of newly built green spaces as well as bare lands improvement via subsidies and the implementation of bare land planting projects.
In addition, in order to further explore the cause of pollution, and also to analyze and improve controlling performance, the focuses this year will be to reinforce the analysis of information, revise the emergency response brochure, carry out survey of the public’s satisfaction, observe innovative methods from other counties or cities, cooperate with the promotion work in Kaohsiung, promote low-pollution transport, and plan green networks.
