Gokseong-gun, 3rd Public Contest for New Household Waste Treatment Facility Site Selection

Installation of Resident Convenience Facilities Worth Approximately 4 Billion KRW Planned Near Waste Disposal Facility Village

[Gokseong=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Cha Jong-sun] Jeonnam Gokseong-gun (Governor Lee Sang-cheol) announced that it will reopen the call for candidates for a new municipal solid waste treatment facility site until December 20.

Gokseong-gun has been searching for a target site for the new waste treatment facility since July. However, no applications were received in the first call in July or the second call held until October 18. Therefore, a third call will be conducted until December 20.

In this call, Gokseong-gun is recruiting candidate sites for facilities including an incinerator (20 tons/day), landfill facility (118,000㎥), resource recovery center (13 tons/day), and plant waste treatment facility (10 tons/day), as before.

If the waste treatment facility is established, approximately 4 billion KRW worth of resident convenience facilities will be installed in the surrounding villages.

Additionally, 10% of the annual waste import fees and proceeds from the sale of volume-based waste bags can be established as a resident support fund.

The county plans to promote this call at the town and township chiefs' meetings and hold additional resident briefings for interested local residents.

Those wishing to attract the facility must submit consent forms from more than half of the household heads within 2 km of the planned waste treatment facility site boundary and consent from more than half of the landowners of the proposed site.

Considering the urgency of the project, Gokseong-gun plans to directly search for candidate sites if no applications are received or if no areas meet the eligibility and site conditions.

A Gokseong-gun official said, "Our county currently lacks sufficient waste treatment capacity. Since this facility is essential, we hope many residents will take an interest."

Meanwhile, the agreement with Gwangju Metropolitan City for the use of the metropolitan sanitary landfill to process Gokseong-gun's municipal solid waste is set to expire in 2025.

Gokseong=Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters, Reporter Cha Jong-sun hss79@asiae.co.kr

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