MAA GROUP Consulting Engineering

Previously the location of the Kaohsiung Refinery, the Bureau of Public Works of Kaohsiung City and CPC Corporation, began the implementation of the “Improvement of Soil and Groundwater Contamination in Kaohsiung Refinery District” on May 13th, 2021. The main goal of the project is to accelerate the removal of contaminants in the soil and groundwater to meet the standards of the Soil and Groundwater Pollution Remediation Act and allow the area to be deregulated by 2025.MAA provides remediation consultancy services for phases 2 and 3, which cover an area of 135 hectares. 

The project started the pollution remediation in the third area on 1st September 2021. After the site condition assessment, the soil washing, bioremediation, thermal desorption and off-site soil of off-site treatment method (for excavation) as well as soil vapor extraction and in-situ chemical oxidation of onsite purification have been implemented. The pollution status of this district has been improved after the relevant construction methods have been remediated. The soil part has been deregulated by the Environmental Protection Bureau on 28th March 2022; the groundwater part has been reviewed and finally verified by the Environmental Protection Bureau, and deregulated on 31st May 2022.