On the 25th, the southern office of Morakot Post-Disaster Reconstruction Council, Executive Yuan set up a Linbian and Jiadong Regional Flooding Problems Project Team," under the direction of Executive Director Tsai Hsung-hsiung, and in the afternoon held its 1st meeting, to study and solve the problem of Linbian and Jiadong flooding and water clean-up.

The Project Team was summoned by Deputy CEO of the Morakot Post-Disaster Reconstruction Council southern office Chern Jenn-Chuan, and MOI Construction and Planning Agency staff work as members of the team. The team included Deputy Director Su Hsien-Ming of CPAMI , Director-general Chen Shen-Hsien of WRA, Deputy Minister Chang Tzu-Ching of EPA, Deputy Director Cheng Shou-Hsia of Department of Health, Deputy Minister Chao Shih-Chang of MND, Administrative Deputy Minister Chen Wen-Jen of MOTC, Director-General Lin Tyh-Mingof THB, Magistrate Tsao Chi Hung of Pingtung County, Linbian mayor Chen Zhu Yun, Jiadong Mayor Lai Hsien He, Director Yan Jiou Rong of Executive Yuan Public Construction Commission.

Deputy CEO Chern held the "Linbian, Jiadong regional flood water cleanup meetinge" 1st meeting in the afternoon of the 25th, at the Seventh River Management Office of the Water Resources Agency. He said that Linbien and Jiadong were hard-hit areas, with their urban areas and the sewer water and mud piled up, causing trouble. Despite the military and government related agencies’ full clean-up dredging efforts, and based on risk management and to prevent secondary disasters, high-risk areas’ drainage and dredging work should be completed as soon as possible. Local governments should also feel a sense of urgency, and disaster prevention and warning work should be properly carried out. All participants should be invited to propose solutions.

The CPAMI reported in the meeting that the current Linbian surface water have been completely removed, while work on pumping stations, sewers and lateral ditch dredging is ongoing. Sewer lines A and B are still very seriously silted with present deposition, two dredging work orders have already been issued on August 25th and will accelerate the process; the Environmental Protection Agency, Pingtung County Government, township offices, armed forces and other relevant units have helped clean up Jiadong Township. The Pingtung County Government has started repair work on the embankment project in Pingtung, and subsequently continued with reinforcement.

Important resolutions of this conference are as follows:

To completely solve the flooding in Linbian, THB has agreed to increase support and comprehensively accelerate the dredging of the A and B sewer trunk pipelines in Linbien that are now seriously blocked by silt in order to alleviate access by local transportation.

The MOEA and MND will coordinate efforts through the "restoration of military support to the work of disaster prevention inter-ministerial coordination group" to immediately commence the Linbian River dredging plan.

Magistrate Tsao Chi Hung of Pingtung County agreed to assist with communicating with farmers within the county; in addition, he also called on farmers not to dredge and pump the fish pond sludge at the moment, to facilitate smooth progress of the dredging work.