In order to clearly understand the degree of the mercury pollution at Taiwan, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Taiwan made an emphasis on the investigation of the mercury concentrations of the potentially mercury-polluted wastewater discharged by certain enterprises. EPA expects to carry out the results of the investigation and plan a practical method to effectively reach the goal of deduction of mercury pollution to lessen its threat to the environment. For doing so, our group draft “The investigation of the mercury-polluted wastewater discharging enterprises”. To carry out this project, we plan to categorize the initial phase into three workable step by step the control of the discharging origins, the emphasis on the investigation and the removal of the mercury pollutants from the environment, to eliminate the threat by the total mercury pollutants to the environment step by step. This project targeted 50 enterprises (list confirmed by EPA of Taiwan), which allegedly produce higher amount of mercury pollution, for investigation. It also categorizes those enterprises according to the type of industries they belong to and their locating regions. It aims to investigate the current usage conditions of the mercury-contained wastewater treatment equipment of the targeted enterprises, as well as their water quality testings. In addition, the results of the investigation and the analysis of the water quality testings can be utilized for planning the strategic goals of lessening the total mercury pollution and can provide useful suggestions. The investigation results as well as the suggestions can hopefully be used to prompt the mercury-using enterprises to properly handle and manage mercury-related materials, to prevent the environment from being polluted.

Mercury Pollution;Water quality sampling of treated wastewater discharge;wastewater treatment