The most celebrated Mazu Dajia cross-country team has
arrived at Yunlin County on 4/10 evening, and was celebrated
jointly by many temples and followers. The EPB has sent
agents to conduct PM2.5 testing on-site, and raised a purple-
flag warning anytime critical threshold reached.
The EPB monitored PM2.5 closely with a direct reading meter
near the Xiluo Fuxing Temple yesterday. No abnormal reading
was observed due to raining and of fewer firecrackers, except
for a 178 μg/m3 reading observed at 10.30pm from the
ignition of waterfall firecrackers. It was a drastic improvement
in contrast with 1,100 μg/m3 reading from last year’s.
The EPB encourages electronic firecrackers and clapping as
substitution for the traditional firecrackers, and to reduce the
burnings of paper money. We hope that the cross-country
event this year would be environmentally friends, devout, and
publically safe.