Starting form 2004, the water pollution prevention and regulation project in chia-yi city has been executed by our consulting group, and it has continued on for 2005 and 2006. The water pollution investigation of various industrial units, in cooperation with the river patrolling teams organized from different neighborhoods, schools and charitable groups; all of this is to synchronize the controlling and handling of the polluting sources. In addition, for prevention of the major water pollution events, an emergency drill is also performed to minimize the damages to the environment a real event can create. This 2006 project enforced the regulating and consulting of the industrial units within chia-yi city for better following the licensed industries. For the year 2006, 531 investigations were carried out at the regulated industrial units, 9 electroplate plants at Ho-hu-li industrial district were thoroughly investigated up to 86 times; the 24-hr water quality monitoring resulted in the discovery of various illegal activities, including 2 illegal wastewater discharges and 4 illegal wastewater discharging pipes. During the same period, 5 illegal wastewater discharging pipes were found and removed. The results of 149 wastewater discharging inspections showed that 9 of them were not up to the standard. A river patrolling team was organized at march 12th, 2006, 4 educational training sessions and 6 river water purging activities were held. Some 2 conferences and 3 water usage reduction info-sessions were taken place in accordance to the Taiwan EPA policies during the whole year. A river pollution emergency drill was organized at Ba-zan-river bridge at Dec. 20th, 2006.

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