ObjectiveThe status of environmental sanitation in rural areas of Taizhou in 2016 was investigated and its evaluation, which provided scientific basis for the government to formulate policies and measures.

MethodsActing on Zhejiang Rural Environmental Sanitation Surveillance Program in 2016, 200 households from 40 villages in two counties of Taizhou City were randomly selected.By means of data consultation, personal interviews, field surveys and other methods monitoring data were obtained.

ResultsIn the course of implementation of the Program, the unified collection of household garbage collection accounted for 55.00%; its centralized treatment 47.50%; burning 22.50%, and domestic sewage pipeline emissions 80.50%. There were still 7.50% of domestic sewage, 20.51% of the industrial wastewater discharge, mainly being drained into rivers and farmland.Households with health toilet accounted for 97.53% of the total; fecal treatment mainly entered the drainage system, but there was still 3.59% of it used for direct fertilization. Those villages accounted for 30.00%, in which efforts to eliminate 'Four Pests'had never been carried out; forty samples of farmland soil were detected, ascaris eggs detection rate being 30.00%, 12 live eggs detected.

ConclusionTaizhou rural environmental health monitoring point sewage treatment rate is not high, and vector biological control work has to be strengthened.