The primary work and achievement of this project focused on the amendments of regulations for industrial wastewater and sewage sewer system. This project was aimed at probing the practical problems and potential risks that the industries discharged untreated wastewater into surface water, and reviewing the current strategies in wastewater management. Accordingly, five regulations and one application form were amended which included Water Pollution Control Measures and Permit Application Management Regulations (Draft), Water Pollution Control Measures and Test Reporting Management Regulations (Draft), Water Pollution Control Act (Draft), Regulations of Fines and Determination for Water Pollution Control Act (Draft), Water Pollution Control Act Enforcement Rules (Draft) and application form of Water Pollution Permit. Also, this project promoted checking the items approved by technicians, assisting to screen out the cases authenticated by technicians, holding the communication meetings and proposing the procedure of applying specific-factory permit for temporary-registered factories as well as existing-unregistered factories. As for application of Water System, with the early-warning function of pollution management data from Water System, the possible abnormal objects with high-risk factors, declaration data and license registration data (e.g. water quality, water volume, sludge production) were rationally checked and screened out. Base on the abnormal objects mentioned above, this project further assisted to formulate on-site inspection procedures. Moreover, two functions of Water System, the application, examination and inquiry of test-free water quality items and file management of unregistered factories, had been built. In order to cooperate with Taiwan EPA’s integrated operations of air pollution, sewage, waste and toxic chemical substances in factories control, this project assisted to enhance the function of information management system. Lastly, the associated administrative affairs were accomplished, which comprised conducting the water pollution assessment, holding the information meetings for promoting each amended regulations, replying the public inquire or request by emails and compiling related regulations, online-learning teaching materials and the E-Newsletter for industrial wastewater management.

Industry Wastewater, Permit Management, Database Management