Pingtung County Environmental Protection Bureau has produced the special plan for sandstone field evaluation and control, which carries out sandstone fields (factories) evaluation and control thoroughly, enhances technological assistance for sandstone fields (factories) without any proper preventive measures to avoid dust emission or air pollution, and attaches more importance to check, prosecution and punishment in accordance with the Air Pollution Control Act so as to minimize air pollution. After years of hard work, with sandstone field owners’ cooperation, Pingtung County Environmental Protection Bureau has succeeded in increasing the dust decreasing rate, paving transfer roads and vehicle entrances, building sprinkling and vehicle watercourses, and finishing adoption tasks for twenty transfer systems…etc., and got good responses from sandstone field owners. Till now, all sandstone field owners have taken pollution control measures, and most of sandstone fields have successfully utilized the three basic facilities, including sprinkling unit, car washing table as well as steel sheet and mineral pitch paved in vehicle entrances. This is one of the most outstanding achievements in assistance improvement in Pingtung County. After the Special Plan for Sandstone Field (Factories) Evaluation and Control in Pingtung County has been enforced for several years, the sandstone fields under the management of Pingtung County Government reduced the granular pollutants from over 4,700 tons to 2,100 tons in this year.

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