The implementation of the project commenced on January 1, 2021 and terminated on December 31, 2021. The outcomes of each work item are summarized as follows:
I. Road Cleaning for Dust Control
As of December 31st, a total of 7,252.08 kilometers of roads were washed, with a total of 7,632 tons of water used. A total of 5,884.66 kilometers of roads were swept, with a total of 102,880 kilograms of dust collected. The total length of roads cleaned was 13,136.74 kilometers. Based on the calculation of EPA (amount of reduction = length of roads cleaned x reduction coefficient), it was estimated that the road cleaning operations reduced 181,287 kilograms of TSP, 34,156 kilograms of PM10, and 7,974 kilograms of PM2.5.
II. Education ＆ Training and Internal Performance Review Meetings
On January 28, 2021 (two month into the implementation of the project), one education and training session was organized for project members on the fourth floor of the Chiayi Office of Century Engineering Consultant Co., Ltd. The content of the session included the operation and maintenance of road sweepers and washers, the management of operational safety and health, road safety, and traffic accidents and insurance claims.
Four internal performance review meetings were held on March 18th, June 17th, September 16th, and November 25, 2021, respectively. The meetings focused on key points and critical matters of annual work, accumulated work performance and the progress of work to be improved, objectives and key points of the works scheduled for the next two months, extempore motions, and comprehensive discussions.
III. Comprehensive Road Inspections and On-site Work Inspections
To better understand and improve the ratings of roads in Chiayi County, and to serve as a reference for the planning of regular road cleaning routes, this project carried out a comprehensive inspection of cleaned roads in the county on a monthly basis. As of December 31st, a total of 273 cleaned road sections measuring a total length of 2,243.4 kilometers were inspected. The results included 92.31% of Level A roads and 7.69% of Level B roads, Among them, there are 2 provincial roads, 5 county roads and 4 township roads in the non-repetitive sections of B-class roads. However, the main reasons that affect the determination of road grades are roughly divided into traffic flow statistics and road color difference problems during inspections. The frequency of street washing has been improved. For the fourth quarter, the road quality of each road section has been upgraded to Grade A. According to the specification of the contract, at least ten on-site work inspections were conducted on cleaned roads every month. As of December 31st, 25 inspections and 99 inspections were conducted for road washing and road sweeping, respectively (including 75 inspections by district offices). The total length of inspected road sections reached 85.6 kilometers.
This year’s inspection operation plan adds 25 road sections, and the total number of inspections is 66 sections, including 35 sections that are regularly cleaned and 31 sections that have never been cleaned. The current conditions of the sections that have not been cleaned have been judged to be grade A roads, and follow-up inspection results will be followed. A total of 16 road sections were included in the cleaning route to assess the current conditions of the roads (sections in the agricultural waste hot area), and the remaining 15 sections were not included in the regular cleaning plan because some road widths were less than 6 meters.
IV. Coordination Meetings for the Division of Authority and Responsibility
To integrate the road cleaning capacity of the county, two coordination meetings were held on April 15th and September 28th, respectively, to clarify the authority and responsibility of related works. Representatives from the Shuei Shang Branch of the Directorate General of Highways, Maintenance Section, Management Section and Engineering Section of the Department of Construction of Chiayi County Government, Department of Agriculture of Chiayi County Government, Air Quality and Noise Control Section and Waste Management Section of the Environmental Protection Bureau, and district offices of the eighteen townships were invited to the meetings to coordinate and determine the division of road authority and responsibility, as well as strengthen the horizontal reporting mechanism for road emergencies, so as to improve the overall road environment in the county.
V. Horizontal Reporting of Dirty Roads
The horizontal reporting mechanism of Chiayi County Road Emergency Response Team was established through the coordination meetings. As of December 31st, During the plan period, 83 horizontal reports of road emergencies have been completed, all of which have been improved. In addition, Vehicles of the project participated in the improvement of dirty roads 17 times. The total number of horizontal reporting was 100 cases.
VI. Agricultural pollution propaganda
Through the road rights and responsibilities division of labor consultation meeting, the division of agricultural pollution control and publicity will be discussed together. Assemblies or the village broadcasting system to strengthen publicity. This project also compiles relevant farming pollution videos and photos, and provides the county government’s agricultural department for distribution and publicity at agricultural affairs-related meetings. On December 29, the first cross-unit joint inspection of farming pollution was conducted. The propaganda video was filmed; in addition, the project and various offices carried out the cleaning process during the busy agricultural season, and carried out propaganda by means of hanging banners on vehicles and regularly playing voices. Reduce the occurrence of agricultural pollution.
VII. Promote Road Adoption to Enterprises
To improve the road cleaning capacity of the county, as of December 31st, the project invited fourteen enterprises to adopt roads for washing and sweeping. The length of road washed was 1,139 kilometers, and the length of road swept was 2,630 kilometers. The total length of road cleaned was 3,769 kilometers. Based on the calculation of EPA (amount of reduction = length of roads cleaned x reduction coefficient), it was estimated that the road cleaning operations carried out by enterprises reduced 52,012 kilograms of TSP, 9,799 kilograms of PM10, and 2,288 kilograms of PM2.5.
VIII. Road Dust Load Inspection
As of December 31st, 32 road dust load inspections were carried out in four quarters of the year. The inspections took place at the (Taibao section) along Provincial road Highway No.18; County Highway 166 (Xingang and Minxiong Section); County Highway 145 (Liujiao Section) ; and County Highway 172 (Yizhu and Budai Section). The results showed that after cleaning, all these sections remained Level A roads.
IX. Advocacy and Administrative Compliance
As of December 31st, the project maintained and updated the webpage of Chiayi County Privately-operated Road Cleaning Project by the 5th of each month. In compliance with administrative works, it submitted the water refilling records, water usage records, and on-site work inspection information of the previous month, and actual work progress of the current month and scheduled work process of the next month. It also submitted the statistics on the amount of disposed wastes of the previous month by the 10th of each month, as well as changes in the cleaning schedule of the current month and the cleaning schedule of the next month by the 25th of each month to the EPA for future reference. During its implementation, the project submitted road cleaning information 12 times.
