Lujiao River Wetland Receives First Onsite Effluent Treatment Environmental Education Certification
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The Lujiao River Constructed Wetland has received the 2008 Taiwan Real Estate Excellence Award Gold Quality Award and the 9th Executive Yuan Public Construction Gold Quality Award in the sustainable, energy-saving and carbon reduction design category. Since completion in 2008, the wetland has focused on pollution reduction, energy conservation and ecological restoration; eventually, in March 2014, it obtained the Environmental Education Certification from the Environmental Protection Administration, Executive Yuan, thereby transforming the nationally important wetland into the first onsite effluent treatment environmental education venue in New Taipei City.

The Lujiao River Constructed Wetland is located in the Shulin District, where river remediation is conducted via the perspectives of constructed wetland, natural purification technique and water resource utilization to effectively improve effluent pollution in Lujiao River and significantly enhance the water quality of the Dahan River. By upholding the principles of “Ecological restoration and environmental education”, the High Riverbank Construction Management Office of the New Taipei City Government has designed environmental education courses including “Aquatic Surprise”, “Water Quality Revelation”, “Bird Watching Fun” and “Interesting Plants”, where the public is taken to the wetland to receive environmental education in order to establish positive ethics and values towards the environment. In addition, the Lujiao River Constructed Wetland course development workshop and the Little Lujiao River Patrol Team are also created to transform the area into a venue for student outdoor experience and environmental/ecological education. The greater vision is to develop the wetland into a demonstration venue with local characteristics. With the Lujiao River Constructed Wetland receiving certification, the honor also serves to justify the value of environmental education, and an additional environmental education/training venue has also been created in New Taipei City. Furthermore, in conjunction with the outstanding riverside park bicycle path, people will be able to come in contact with high quality environmental education venue while enjoying the leisure of riding bicycles. In so doing, we will be able to progressively promote the national environmental education movement, uplift the national environmental cultivation and evoke people’s awareness towards environmental problems.

Inspired by the theme “I Love the Lujiao River Wetland”, environmental education courses on the Lujiao River’s environmental transformation, ecological observation and wetland protection are systematically devised through aspects such as progress of history, geographic environment, water environment, wetland biology, wetland guardian and wetland lectures. The aim is to provide comprehensive, professional environmental education service, hoping the public will implement the correct values of creating sustainable homes, in turn making the promotion of environmental education more complete. We welcome the public to book the Lujiao River Constructed Wetland environmental education courses, and the New Taipei City Wetland Zhenshui Volunteers will be at your service free of charge. Reservation hotline: 02-89699596 #208 (Ms. Chen). Schools applying for environmental education courses will be granted environmental education hours. In addition, there are eight other constructed wetlands along the Dahan River, including Chenglin, Daniaobi, Fuzhou, Xinhai 1st, 2nd and 3rd Phase, as well as Huajiang; together, they are connected to form the Tamsui River ecological corridor, offering not only abundant ecology but also the best venue for environmental education!

Data courtesy of: Water Resources Department, New Taipei City GovernmentWebsite: http://www.wrs.ntpc.gov.tw/web/News?command=showDetail&postId=302914