Local fish farms buried in furnace slag – student tests reveal high levels of alkalinity

Following inspections by local environmental organizations, dumped furnace slag and various other pollutants have been repeatedly found near the fish farms in Tainan City’s Annan District, which flank Tainan Refuse Incineration Plant and Anqing Road. The fact that this waste material was found only a few hundred meters from a nursery and just over one thousand meters from Tucheng Elementary School has left the residents of Taijiang community in a state of shock. With the assistance of Taijiang River Basin Club and other organizations, teachers and students from Tucheng Elementary School carried out water-quality tests in order to understand the damage done to the local fish-farming district by the dumping of such waste materials.

On a visit to the area students could smell fumes and the result of pH tests showed deep purple, leaving the students saddened to find that their hometown and the fish farms near their school have been seriously polluted, especially since farmland just five hundred meters from their school is earmarked for the development of an industrial zone. The children are now very worried that their home will be destroyed by industrial pollution.

Local fish farms buried in furnace slag – student tests reveal high levels of alkalinity 

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家鄉魚塭被埋爐渣 土城國小學童檢測酸鹼度紫爆

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台南市安南區，在城西焚化爐附近、安清路兩側土城漁塭區，經環保團體聯合檢警調查，竟接連查獲土城魚塭區遭埋廢爐渣等污染情形，該地距離托兒所只有數百公尺、土城國小只有一千多公尺，令台江社區居民十分震驚。為了解家鄉漁塭被爐渣污染，土城國小師生在台江流域社團與組織的協助下，前往這片受爐渣污染的漁塭，進行水質檢測，同學們發現這裡的空氣飄浮著難聞的臭味，酸鹼度檢測結果呈現「紫爆」，同學們說現在才知道在自家、學校附近漁塭竟然被嚴重污重，他們十分難過，特別是離土城國小五百公尺的農地，還將開發土城工業區，他們十分憂心土城家鄉會不會被工業污染籠罩。