In a bid to aid those counties hardest-hit by Typhoon Toraji, local governments across Taiwan have been pitching in to help with the cleanup, according to a new government report.
The details of the cooperation were detailed in a report issued by the Central Disaster Contingency Center (CDCC) yesterday.
The Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) has been assisting with sanitization and garbage clean-up work by arranging help from neighboring counties, the report said. The military has also mobilized 30,000 personnel for the disaster-relief work.
At the central government level, the EPA has provided disinfectant for Chiayi, Hualien, Nantou, Taichung, Changhua and Yunlin counties, as well as Chiayi City.
In addition, the EPA has provided subsidies to Hualien, Nantou and Miaoli counties for clean-up work, as well as shipping 27 portable toilet units to Hualien County and 22 to Nantou.
According to information sent to the CDCC from the EPA, military personnel will carry out sanitization in the townships of Lugu (鹿谷), Shuili (水里), Yuchi (魚池), Puli (埔里), Chungliao (中寮) and Chushan (竹山), using sanitation vehicles supplied by the Nantou County Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB).
As for the seriously affected areas of Hsinyi (信義) township, the EPA has coordinated Nantou County's EPB and specimen analysts from an EPA inspection unit to direct families in the cleaning of water towers and reservoirs, as well as bleaching, sanitization and water quality testing.
Additionally, the Nantou County Health Bureau has already supplied households with disinfectant.
In the garbage clean-up effort, the Lutsao (鹿草) township incinerator located in Chiayi County has been assisting Nantou County's Shuili and Tsaotun (草屯) townships.
It is also helping Chiayi City and Chiayi County's Chuchi township with their own cleanup operations.
Sanitation authorities in Tsaotun Township and Nantou City have also sent garbage trucks to help Chichi (
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