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The "Soil and Groundwater Pollution Survey and Response Measures Work Plan" in Taichung City is one of the important pollution control and response projects funded by the municipal government each year. The plan is designed to address the city's vast territory and the insufficient central government subsidies for such projects. This horizontal project, supported by the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) under the Ministry of the Environment, is known as the "2024 Taichung City Soil and Groundwater Pollution Survey and Verification Work Plan" (hereafter referred to as the horizontal plan). Due to limited funding, tasks such as the maintenance of groundwater monitoring wells, supplementary surveys of potentially polluted areas, smart monitoring of sediment pollution sources, response to sudden pollution incidents, handling complaints, and the registration and inspection of specific factories and businesses, require the city’s own funding and efforts through this plan (hereafter referred to as the small soil and water plan). Both plans complement each other: the small soil and water plan aims to fill gaps in monitoring coverage left by the horizontal plan, while also providing data for surveys and monitoring to support the integration of soil and groundwater conditions across the city.
The key work areas can be categorized as groundwater monitoring well inspection and maintenance, complaint handling or emergency response, media promotion, and registration, inspection, and guidance for specific factories or businesses. These tasks support the horizontal plan’s work scope.
In this year’s plan, the following tasks were completed: 41 micro-water tests on monitoring wells, 41 well photography tasks, 20 well appearance maintenance, 10 facility repairs, 21 well re-completions, 5 foreign object removals, 3 abandoned wells (standard monitoring wells), 9 complaint or emergency response cases, 3 media outreach activities related to soil and groundwater policies and regulations, 1 smart IoT monitoring system for groundwater, on-site checks for 75 registered factories, 2 environmental site inspections and expert guidance sessions, 1 field investigation and preventive management briefing session, the production of 150 factory soil pollution prevention management brochures, 25 business inspections and guidance, and 1 smart technology monitoring system. The overall progress achieved is 100%.
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