According to the contents of the project, the achievements that have been conducted are described as the following. 1. Organized seven teams of river-patrolling volunteers in the Tam-Shui River , Nan-Kan River and Lao-Jie River regions after completing the interviews in those areas; the DMs containing the patrolling, maps, reports, cleaning, volunteering, etc. are also finished, which have met the expectation. 2. Advised 23river patrolling teams, (2 from Taipei, 16 from Taipei County and 5 from Taoyuan County setting up blogs) to learn how to input the reports, data, results, their activities and other criteria in the website “EcoLife” to meet the project requirements. 3. Finished ten irregular patrols and completed the maps of polluted areas in the connecting streams of Ta-Liao-Ken River like Tan-Di Creek, Lu-Chiao Creek, Ying-Ge Creek, Nan-Kan Creek and Lau-Jie Creek, which has met the expectation of the project. 4. Finished 4 one-day workshops of river patrolling and communications for volunteers’ interaction, proficiency training and experience sharing. There were 513 participants joining the workshops. 1) Invited the river patrolling volunteer teams from Taipei City, Taipei County, Keelung City, Taoyuan County, Hsinchu City and Hsinchu County to share their experience. 2) The contents of the workshops had included the principles, procedures, reporting process, the criteria that were able to be conducted by volunteers, river pollution prevention and treatment, the history of rivers, ecosystems, proficiency training etc. Those mentioned above have met the expectation of the project. (1) The volunteer workshop of Nan-Kan Creek and Lao-Jie Creek in Taoyuan was held at Room 101, The Labor Recreation Center in Taoyuan County from 8:30 to 18:30 on October 17th, 2009. There were 82 participants who are river patrolling volunteers from Taoyuan, university or graduate students, community university students and the general public. (2) The volunteer workshop of Tamsui River patrolling was held at Tatung Community University in Taipei City from 8:30 to 17:00 on October 24th, 2009. There were 29 participants who are retired teachers, volunteer tour guides, students, river patrolling volunteers, and 2009 tour guide trainees of Keelung River, etc. (3) The volunteer workshop and birthday party for Tamsui River patrolling volunteers was held at Bi-Tan River Bank Square in Hsindian, Taipei County from 8:00 to 17:00 on November 11th, 2009. There were 318 participants who are river patrolling volunteers, students, and the general public. (4) The volunteer workshop for Jing-Mei River patrolling volunteers was held at the river bank of Wan-Ching Park in Jing-Mei creek from 9:00 to 12:00 on November 29th, 2009. There were 84 participants including river patrolling volunteers from Tamsui River regions and community university students. 5. Finished the bicycle training for 61 Keelung River tour guide trainees. The training was held twice at Nei-Hu and Sung-Shan community universities in Taipei City on August 23rd, 29th, 30th and September 11th. The recommended tour guide trainees were selected from the 61 participants after the tests. The results have met the expectation of the project. 6. Accomplished selecting 10 important locations to be the tour guide training areas for the pollution treatment of Keelung River, which has met the expectation of the project. 7. Finished the 16-hour proficiency training and role play, and selected 30 recommended tour guide trainees from the participants, which have met the expectation of the project. 8. Accomplished the tour guide training and propaganda of Hsindian River and Tamsui River, which have met the expectation of the project. 9. Finished two half-day re-trainings and forums for the tour guide trainees of Hsindian River and Tamsui River to reinforce the guiding focus and proficiency. The total participants were 56 people. The results have met the expectation of the project. 10. Finished 6 appointed tours in Tamsui River for organizations or schools with more than 15 people, conducted the visitor analysis, and collected the questions about the river pollution treatments and the comments of the tours, which has met the expectation of the project. The benefits of this project: 1. Improve river-patrolling volunteers’ proficiency and understanding about the river pollution treatments and policies and the participation of the general public. 2. Organize the river patrolling trainings to educate the volunteers and to attract more people to involve with the river patrolling. 3. Promote the interactions among the river patrolling volunteers to reinforce the results of river patrolling proficiency. 4. Integrate the tourism and recreation activities and river protection together to help the public get close to the rivers. 5. Help the tourism and recreation industries and the public understand the pollution treatments in the Keelung River regions. 6. Promote the river protection concepts and attract the public to join river protections. Suggestions: 1. To finish the river patrolling teams' interviews, we suggest each county in North Taiwan follows the procedures applied by Protection Bureau in Taipei County, which are inviting river patrolling teams to the regular meetings to enable the patrolling information open, share experience and reinforce the trusts and participation among civil patrolling. 2. As to the river pollutions that territories run across different counties or cities, build up the meetings regarding river regions so the public and private sectors can cooperate and patrol together and examine the focus polluted areas. 3. Develop three systems, trainings about local river patrolling team members' self management, recruiting and training volunteers who are in charge of reporting, coordinating the local environment protection bureaus to requests the reporting should be listed in one of the duties of river patrolling, to help river patrolling teams to familiar with set up and following up reports on Ecolife website. 4. Train volunteers to film the documentaries so those documentaries can be used as the training materials for the further river and water education and new volunteers. 5. Recruit more volunteer tour guides to develop new locations for appointed river guide tours. 6. Set up River Day and activities to attract the public and media attention to the river protection. 7. Build up a research center for the trainings of river patrolling, the river educations for the public.

Pollution Treatment, River-Patrolling, Volunteer Proficiency, Tam-Shui River, Nan-Kan River, Lao-Jie River