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I. Tasks
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According to the general regulations of organization for the farmland irrigation association, the tasks are as follows:
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Establishment, improvement, maintenance and management for the farmland irrigation association.
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Prevention and rescue of disasters for the farmland irrigation association.
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Fund raising and creation of foundation for the farmland irrigation association.
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Research and development of business efficiency for the farmland irrigation association.
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Implementation of agricultural and industrial policy and rural development in accordance with the government for the farmland irrigation association.
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Works of competent authority to be done in accordance with law.
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Maintenance of irrigation and drainage facilities
During the development of the association, there used to be 69 irrigation channels and 3,393.7 hectares of irrigation area in 1948. With the evolution of the metropolitan area of Taipei, the scale of irrigation area was gradually reduced. There were only 23 irrigation channels and 624.48 hectares of irrigated area in 2012.
The length of the irrigation system ranges from 100 to 7,000 meters, and irrigated different sizes of farmland respectively; the mountainous irrigation system is small, short and scattered, and there are 10 waterways located in the Qixing mountainous area, about 200 to 700 meters above sea level.
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Water quality monitoring and water volume observation
To ensure the water quality for irrigation, 4 water samples (pH value, temperature, EC and DO) were initially tested every 2 months; and 17 key irrigation stations conduct heavy metals testing for 17 kinds of irrigation water to closely observe the condition of river water and water volume for irrigation, so our association can control water quality and change of water volume and make sure a good quality and sufficient amount of irrigation water is available.
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Disaster prevention and rescue
A disaster prevention project is planned in March each year, and maintenance of equipment and drill exercises is completed at the end of April. As soon as a disaster occurs, our personnel can implement disaster prevention work systematically. In addition, remote surveillance and automation equipment is incorporated into the disaster prevention and rescue system; so the system can monitor at any time through remote surveillance. In case of an emergent situation, our association will send personnel to tackle the situations immediately. For example, there are remote surveillance devices for the electric garbage blocking fence at Baxian Canal, Xi'an Street, and remote surveillance equipment is installed at Shuimokeng creek and Guandu water pumping station, so our association can meet the target to “remotely monitor, and immediately respond” to the disasters that happen at the typhoon seasons and flood prevention periods, and to improve work efficiency and reduce disaster.
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Improvement of facilities
Even since the beginning of our association, for the improvement of facilities, we consider not only the needs of irrigation and drainage in connection with the water volume, but also factors such as ecology, landscaping, disaster reduction, disaster prevention and the subsequent management and maintenance and etc into the scope of project planning, to put forward the most suitable improvement plan according to local conditions.
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Electric garbage blocking fence at Baxian Canal, Xi'an Street: easy to operate for removing garbage; it can solve the problems of community drainage, such as massive drainage reflux and blocking due to garbage clogging, and reduce the occurrence of floods in communities.
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Landscaping of Baxian waterway: with ecological and greenification methods to improve the community environment of Baxian Canal at Donghua and Linong villages; furthermore, to meet the needs for the water volumes required in both daily irrigation and flood prevention period, and to reduce the problem of clogging at waterways.
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Ecological waterways at mountainous area: the ecological system at the waterways of mountainous area is diverse and abundant; our association used U-shaped channels made of pebbles to reduce the leaking of irrigation water, and created multiple-poles and multiple-phased biological habitat, taking into account of production, ecology and life.
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II. Organization
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The association has a president, directly elected by the members; his duty is to manage the business of the association; and there are also a manager, 3 departments and 2 offices, including department of management, department of finance, department of general affairs, accounting and statistics office, and personnel office, with its respective duties and responsibilities. There are 42 members and a committee of member's affairs; 15 committees are directly elected by members. A meeting of committee shall be convened in accordance with the relevant provisions to determine the annual budget, final accounts and related important decisions of the member's affairs.
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There are 17 water irrigation groups in our business area. Beitou District: Beitou, Halapei, Yide, Baxian 1, Baxian 2, Qilian 1, Qilian 2, Shipai, Zhoumei, and Eighteen Shares; Shilin District: Pingdeng, Shilin, Niya; Neihu District: Donghu; Nangang District: Dongxin Zhuangzi; Xizhi District: Beifeng, Beishan.
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