Gwangju City, All-Out Effort to Minimize Landslide Damage in Summer Season

Operation of Landslide Countermeasure Situation Room Until October 15

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Yoon Jamin] Gwangju Metropolitan City is making every effort to minimize casualties and property damage caused by landslides due to heavy summer rains and typhoons.

On the 28th, Gwangju City announced that it is operating a landslide response situation room in cooperation with the Korea Forest Service Landslide Prevention Support Headquarters, autonomous districts, and related organizations until October 15, the natural disaster countermeasure period for summer.

According to the landslide risk situation, personnel (2 to 5 people) are assigned in stages such as interest, caution, alert, and severe.

From the alert stage, a 24-hour emergency duty system will be activated to fully protect citizens' lives and property from floods and landslides.

They have completed on-site inspections of 38 landslide damage restoration sites affected by last year's heavy rains and 2 sites targeted for this year's erosion control projects, and are intensively managing them to ensure the projects are completed before the rainy season.

In particular, the ongoing erosion control dam project is located upstream of Gwanggok Village (Gwangsan-dong), Gwangsan-gu, which suffered flooding damage due to last year's record-breaking heavy rains, and in the forest watershed around Wolbong Seowon. It is expected to help reduce landslide and flood damage by preemptively blocking soil and rock outflow that may occur.

In addition, for the 75 areas designated and managed as landslide-prone areas due to high risk of landslide occurrence, a landslide site prevention team (12 members) is continuously patrolling and inspecting, and safety measures such as evacuation of nearby residents are implemented when landslide advisories and warnings are issued.

Along with this, 11 additional areas identified last year as landslide risk zones will complete a field survey by the Erosion Control Association by next month, and based on the results, systematic management such as designation of vulnerable areas will be carried out to minimize casualties and property damage.

Kim Jong-ho, head of the city's Parks and Greenery Division, said, "Landslides are natural disasters that cause great damage without warning, so proactive prevention and response are most important. During high-risk periods such as heavy rains and typhoons, please pay close attention to landslide advisories and warnings and evacuate promptly according to emergency disaster messages in case of emergency."

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