After a contract signed on February 22, 2008, Taichung County Street Dust Cleaning and Washing Program for the fiscal year of 2008 started the preliminary stage of planning and proceeded with equipment purchases and personnel training. On April 4, 2008, the program began with planned work projects including: cleaning and washing streets; inspection and coordination of the administrative offices of villages and towns; results evaluation; survey; and the actual work achievement as follows: 1. Cleaning and washing operation, and inspection: After the Environmental Protection Bureau approved the planned routes of cleaning and washing, the operation officially started on April 4, 2008. During the program, there were six route changes. A total of 41826.6 km in length of streets was washed and an average of 1.33~1.52 ton/kilometer. The duration of the program was for 48 weeks, averaging 70 kilometers every day; compared with the original plan, the total achieved percentage was 100%. With 8226.2 kilometers in length of street cleaned, compared with the original plan, the total achieved percentage was 100%, averaging 50 kilometers of streets cleaned every day. Total garbage cleared and transported was measured 242858 kilograms. 2. Inspection and coordination of village and town hall: (1)In order to integrate the routes of the village and town halls which facilitate cleaning and washing machines and the Environmental Protection Bureau’s routes for achieving best efficiency, there were four job coordination meetings held for this program. Except for the coordination in details of cleaning and washing operations with every village and town offices, the meetings provided the most effective work projects and communication with every administrative offices. By sharing the experiences, it promoted the effects of streets cleaning and washing operation in the County. (2)To proceed with the inspection for the cleaning and washing operation of village and town offices in this fiscal year, website report system was provided for reporting the progress. As of now, every village and town office proceeded with the program on schedule according to their reported information. 3.As to the improvement of central separation island, from April 2008 to August 2008, our work team in this program started to spread, on bare ground, rice straw provided by FengYuan City at the central separation island on GangBu Road in QingShui with a total of 4560 square meters in area measure. 4. For improvement of the pollution source and investigation of dirty spots on county roads, during April 2008~February 2009, there were 14 pollutants monitored among which tree listed locations were removed by the end of February 2009. At least 33 dirty spots were submitted to village and town offices and Environmental Protection Bureau Pollutant Management Division for increasing the frequency of cleaning, washing and inspection. 5. Execution 「The representative road for the competition of each village or town」in this fiscal year，and the finial Shalu Township ,Fongyuan City and Da-an Township wine the champion.

Street Dust Cleaning and Washing