The main quantified achievements of this project are as follows: 1. Organizing a series class on river-patrolling volunteer’s educations in the Da-Han River during June 28 to July 19, the coordinator includes Ban-Ciao Community University. The total class hours equal to 18 hours, the amount of students are 30. 2. Two “one-day workshop on river-patrolling volunteer’s education ”were held in Wugu (July 21) and Hsinchun(Aug. 5). The coordinator includes The society of Wilderness and Hsinchun Community University, the number of participants are 56 and 67. 3. One “Forum on Tamshui River Remediation” was held in Sep. 14. The total participants are 75. The speaker of the forum includes government, academic, and NGO. The status, strategy and vision of Tamshui River are discussed. The result of that Forum are integrated as “Suggestion of Related-Authority on Tamshui River”. 4. The birthday party of Tamsui River was held in Nov. 24. There were 16 related groups, includes community university, NGOs, display their result of river-patrolling and river protection, the total participators were about 600. Conclusion and Suggestion The effects of this plan are : Increasing the public environmental conscious and prompting river education. Enhancing the public understanding and participation on river remediation Aggregating the civil power to initiate the progress of river remediation strategies. Performance Evaluation The amount of coordinator up to 35. The total participants of class and workshop from past three years are 633, and the participants of birthday party is up to 600, more than last year. The newcomer of participants are 78%, imply that the breadth and dimension are gradually wide during past three years. The impeach cases of this year are 14, total number during past three years are 25. The forum result can provide reference of government strategy formulation. There are four suggestions can be made. 1. The public education can be extended by increasing the diversity of coordinator, like historical organization, village watch, birds-watch etc. 2. The water-related education class should be keep held in different community university. 3. The river-patrolling volunteers need more incentive to enhance their willingness, such as the certification, regulation communication platform etc. 4. The effect of workshop and forum can be deepening if the participants are specified. That means the public participation on water protection issues are not focus on wideness but also deepness.

Remediation, Tamshui River, river-patrolling