This project was contracted by the Environmental Protection Bureau of Kaohsiung City Government (Kaohsiung EPB) to control the soil and groundwater contamination in Kaohsiung. The scope of this project was to investigate and identify the soil and groundwater contamination in Kaohsiung, prevent the expansion of any contamination, and to conduct oversight and verification of gas station standard operating procedures. All of the work specified in the contract has been completed. In accordance with the contract, starting from January 2017, we reconstructed the soil and groundwater contamination webpage of Kaohsiung EPB and updated on the 5th of each month, so that the public can regularly receive new information and understand the effectiveness of the work performed. In addition, we continuously updated project content in the soil and groundwater information management system to reflect the status of every monitored site.
In overseeing ongoing decontamination programs and verifying completed decontamination programs, we completed 191 sets of soil sampling and 274 groundwater sampling, as well as 262 additional groundwater samples for volatile organic compounds, semi-volatile organic compounds, heavy metals or TPH. In addition, 148 groundwater samples for analysis of general items, 5 groundwater samples for analysis of Cyanide and 18 groundwater samples for analysis of Fluoride. Additional, several site contamination investigations were performed by using emergency management funds. All of the emergency response plans cost totally 808.2 thousand dollars. During this calendar year, we completed 9 site contamination verifications, 26 site contamination investigations, 3 sites regular monitor, and monitored the groundwater early warning systems at 7 industrial parks.
During this year, we inspected the external appearance of 1039 groundwater monitoring wells; any minor defects were immediately corrected on-site after the inspection. 398 wells with external damage were repaired. 22 wells had structural damage and were also repaired. Well condition assessment was performed on 26 wells. 19 standard monitoring wells were rebuilt. 5 standard monitoring wells were eliminated foreign substance. 11 standard monitoring wells were found unusable and removed from the monitoring list. 23 temporary wells were installed and abrogated. 4 standard monitoring wells were installed.
We hired a registered, qualified lawyer with the relevant expertise to provide legal consulting services in three cases. 9 hours in soil and groundwater pollution and remediation issues were held for EPB personnel. Six regulatory guidance meetings were also held to the polluter of contaminate sites, gas station owners, elementary school students about legally mandated soil and groundwater remediation practices. In addition, we helped handle a soil and groundwater pollution remediation business review conference and employee training.
We inspected all sites once a month and assisted in the review of the various contaminated sites report, and provided a total of 231 review comments.
We assisted the gas stations with their quarterly reporting, achieving a reporting rate of 100 % for the third season of 2016 and firs, second seasons of 2017, and also assisted in the review of 15 gas station equipment plans or completion reports. We completed 32gas station inspections, and detected soil vapor monitoring well and cathodic protection at 54 gas stations. We also in progressed to the improvement reviewing of deficiency gas stations by Environmental Protection Agency.
We assisted with 12 work review conferences, 44 soil and groundwater contaminated sites improvements initiative committees, and 1expert advisory committee conference.
