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Water Pollution Source Control And Investigation(Including Water Pollution Control Fees),and Response to Water Pollution in Taoyuan,2020

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(一) Industrial district water pollution prevention and control management (工業區水污染防治管理) Inspection for sampling at runoff wastewater discharge points in the industrial district, discharge points in combined sewage treatment plant and other assigned places In this project, on-site inspection and samplings exceeded effluent standards for 4 times, including 2 times in Guanyin Industrial Park Service Center (SS 28.2mg/L, COD 128mg/L、84mg/L;Pb 1.89mg/L), Guishan Water Recycling Center for once (COD 117mg/L) and Jhongli Industrial Park for once (COD 80.1mg/L). Please refer to Table 3.1-10 for its details. The improvements were all confirmed in secondary evaluation. The total reduction of SS was 155kg/d, COD was 3,563kg/d, as shown the details in p.3-1. Handle the industrial district (park) self-management meeting In this project, it has organized 3 industrial district self-management meetings on March 26, July 16 and October 15 in the Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB) to track the implementation effectiveness of each industrial district and review the self-management issues. In each quarterly review meeting, there were relevant major issues, including drainage pipe construction in Jhongli Industrial Park Service Center, progress of enterprises connecting into sewage system of Guishan Water Recycling Center, and high NH3-N concentration of Dapu Bridge of Nankan River due to NH3-N effluents from HWA YA Technology Park, as shown details in p.3-30. 廢(污)水處理設施功能評鑑作業) In this project, the on-site inspection and sampling were finished on June 23 and 24, and the preliminary and secondary functional evaluation of 2 industrial districts have been completed on July 31 and October 13, 2020. Functional evaluation report was submitted on October 13, 2020. 2 experts and scholars were invited to put forward feasible suggestions, ask manufacturers to propose improvement measures in the self-management meeting of the industrial district, and conduct follow-up tasks. Please refer to p3-34 for details. Counsel the effluent collection management in industrial areas The work of the effluent collection management in industrial areas were continuous tasks. There were no significant defects by comparing companies’ self-assessment reports and regular inspection declarations in this project. Only few industrial parks had minor defects such as typos or filling form errors, etc. Please refer to p.3-43. (二) Promote the policy on resource utilization from livestock manure Guide livestock farms with 20-199 livestock to acquire approval for wastewater management plan As of November 30, 2020, 26 livestock farms were received guidance, of which 19 farms who have submitted wastewater management plan applications have been accepted and approved, as shown details in Table 4.2-2 and Figure 4.2-3. Personnel in Taoyuan City Swine Association has completed on-site investigation and relevant opinions from investigation results have been provided to other farms for reference. The average number of reviewing days of the livestock wastewater management plan was 17 days, and the types of defects on documents incompletion were shown in p.4-9 for details. Guide livestock farmers to use biogas residue & biogas slurry as farmland fertilizer As of November 30, 2020, it has completed the applications of 15 livestock farmers for biogas residue & biogas slurry in this project, and the applications have been reviewed by the Development of Agriculture, Taoyuan City. The selecting principles of livestock farms for the promotion of this project were based on laws and regulations, previous use experience, the willingness of using digestate as fertilizer among livestock farms and surrounding farmers. Details were shown in p.4-14. Taoyuan City guidelines and procedures regarding grants for digestate carrying or irrigation vehicle This project has assisted the EPB of Taoyuan City to consolidate and compare the contents of the guidelines from other counties and cities in Taiwan that have been set for implementation; afterwards Taoyuan City guidelines and procedures was formally implemented on October 14, 2020. It has assisted 2 livestock farmers to complete the assessment of applications. The total application amount was NT$ 5.4 million, of which NT$ 2.646 million was subsidized by the EPA and Taoyuan City, and the remaining amount was charged by the livestock farmers. Please refer to p.4-20 for details. Track monthly irrigation volume on approved livestock farmsIn compliance of water pollution assessment of EPA in 2020, the irrigation volume in each livestock farm was calculated monthly. As of November 30, 2020, 35 livestock farms have been approved for irrigation. All of them have used digestate for agriculture, and the results were good. However, due to the growth and harvest cycle of crop, the amount of irrigation in certain months were relatively low. It was recommended to cultivate crops that were harvested twice a year such as rice. Every month the livestock farmers were informed the goal of irrigation by phone, personal visit or social app LINE, etc. The total irrigation rate achieved 63.4%. Policy propaganda meeting such as observation tour, outcomes presentation, or completion ceremony This project was scheduled to be held a completion ceremony in September of the Hongzhi (弘智) Livestock Farm for biogas power generation. It took 2 year to complete the construction and now is undergoing commissioning. A special opening ceremony on September 14, 2020 was held to promote the application of biogas and digestate fertilizer, as shown in p.4-24. Water pollution prevention and management of high pollution potential enterprises Enterprise on-site inspection operations (sewage charges inspection, business with high pollution potential inspection) This project has completed inspection of 417 enterprises, showing the results that 215 enterprises were no defects (52% of the total, including suspension or operations were closed, permit application on progress, and trial run alteration). 214 enterprises have demonstrated samplings tasks (51% of the total), of which the discharge wastewater of 56 enterprises exceeded effluent standards (26% of the total). 202 enterprises were found the unconformities (48.5% of the total), including 125 enterprises with report false information, 106 enterprises with operations defects, 47 enterprises with sampling points defects, 10 enterprises with operating daily report defects, as shown details in p.5-1. Inspection of Water Pollution Control Fee declaration The selecting principles for enterprises inspection on Water Pollution Control Fee of this project was those with doubtful operating days, doubtful declaration of the number of livestock, etc. The number of inspection goal for this year was 30 farms, at the end of this year there were 36 farms. The enterprises inspection list of 24 companies has been issued by the EPA, and there were 18 companies that have been selected by the EPB of Taoyuan City after discussion. 6 farms were supposed to settle the account and halt fee collection, and it have passed to other project for the task. After calculation of the amount of Water Pollution Control fee, the farms have been assessed supplementary fees of NT$ 1,160,273 following inspection, and the relevant results were reported to the EPA for review, as shown details in p.5-5. Provide river pollution image monitoring information service During the implementation of this project, 8 times of abnormal water quality were found. The site was inspected the source of pollution immediately, most of which were caused by the Taoyuan Management Office, Irrigation Agency, Department of Water Resources, and construction site projects. The discharge was immediately required to be stopped, and personnel stayed until the water quality was normal. More details were shown in p.5-15. Assist in setting up the cleanup and removal points for river garbage This project has chosen two garbage removal points in the south and the north, respectively, according to the recommendations of the committee members. Removal points were decided after considering the width and depth of the river, and the convenience of cleaning. The setting up was completed on October 14 in avoidance of the flood period, as shown in p.5-19. Collaborative treatment in emergency response to water body pollution incidents Emergency responses for Water body pollution As of November 30, 2020, this project has assisted 3 sessions of oil pollution contingency responses. It has performed clearance and disposal for 1 incident; for the rest 2 incidents, the polluters were responsible to perform emergency responses within 7-14 days and have decreased water body pollution load effectively. It has supervised the emergency responses in person according to the requirements of authority. Please refer to p.6-1 for the details of oil pollution responses. Assist to handle other related issues Conduct propaganda meeting or explanation meeting for Water Pollution Control Act This project assisted EPB of Taoyuan City in organizing total 6 sessions. 2 training seminars of exclusive personnel, 1 construction sites runoff wastewater pollution reduction seminar, 1 professional engineer inspection and wastewater management training seminar, 1 training seminar of wastewater automatic monitoring (surveillance) facilities, and 1 sediment management symposium were all carried out and finished in August of 2020. Please refer to details in p.7-1. IoT technology on water quality sensing were monitored and noticed to EPB of Taoyuan City for 14 times, of which EPB conducted inspections for 9 times, and samplings were conducted for 5 times. There were 2 times that exceeded the effluent standard, 1 of it was punished with a fine of NT$ 273,000, the other is submitting opinion and waiting for the result, and it is estimated the amount of fine will be NT$ 180,000. For more details, please refer to p.7-3. Trace suspicious pollution sources, unidentified pipelines or major water pollution incidents In this project, it has collaborated with Inspection Section, and Soil and Water Conservation Section of Taoyuan City EPB to conduct inspection of unidentified pipelines on March 20 and 27 to 台○化學 in Luzhu District. The flow and water body of pipelines were detected by camera-based equipment in this project. Please refer to p.7-10 for the details. Assist in submitting garbage removal results on 「Surface Water Body Garbage Intercept and Removal Management System」4 cleanup and removal points for river trash in this project were the same as 2019 set up. Every month the inspection for surface water body were executed and river garbage clearance was completed. The trash removal results were reported to EPA 「Surface Water Body Garbage Intercept and Removal Management System」. As of October 31, 2020, Taoyuan City has conducted 1,526 garbage interceptions and 1,711 inspections, ranking first in the country, as shown details in p.7-11. Water quality monitoring station’s inspection, follow-up abnormal situation tracing and responses for investigation As of November 30, 2020, the inspection of 28 monitoring stations in 5 major river basins and 6 major rivers in Taoyuan City has been completed. During the inspection process, abnormal situations such as riverside construction sites, domestic sewage or livestock wastewater were recorded and reported to Line group, further to track the source of pollution and make water quality analysis, as shown details in p.7-13
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