Sancheong-gun Promotes Introduction of Automated Water Gate System

Remote Management of 7 Namgang Drainage Sluice Gates, Establishment of Remote Operation and Related Facilities

Drainage gate related to smart flood management system (Photo by Sancheong-gun)

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Sancheong-gun, Gyeongnam announced on the 20th that it has secured a total of 1.25 billion KRW in national funding from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport to promote the ‘Smart Flood Management System’.

This smart flood management system project aims to improve the operation method of sluice gates within national rivers, which have so far been operated empirically by local private sluice gate managers, by applying various information and communication technologies.

Additionally, related facilities will be established to monitor the sluice gate status via closed-circuit television (CCTV) and river water levels in real-time using automatic water level gauges, allowing remote opening and closing of sluice gates from the disaster control center when necessary.

The county expects that once this project is completed, the control room will be able to operate sluice gates based on real-time water level information, effectively responding to the increasingly frequent localized heavy rains.

In particular, it is anticipated that accumulating data on sluice gate operations and water levels will lay the foundation for introducing an automated sluice gate system for disaster prevention.

A county official stated, “Through this project, we expect to respond quickly to typhoons and heavy rains to prevent flood damage in advance,” and added, “We will continue to make various efforts to prevent river disasters such as floods.”

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