Uiryeong-gun "Will Prevent Waste Damage at Dongsan Park"... Measures to Avoid Damage During the Rainy Season

Ministry of Environment Advisory 'Restoration Order'

Deployment of Monitors, Focus on Continuous Surveillance

Uiryeong-gun, Gyeongnam Province, is actively responding to prevent secondary pollution caused by waste and other environmental damage around Dongsan Park Cemetery in Burim-myeon.

Before the full onset of the rainy season, the county instructed the company to restore the site to its original condition by removing all piled-up waste to prevent waste runoff.

Gyeongnam Uiryeong-gun is restoring the piled-up waste within Dongsan Park Cemetery to its original state. [Image provided by Uiryeong-gun]

Additionally, before the legal judgment currently under investigation and administrative litigation, the focus will be on preventing environmental pollution caused by the waste.

Last month, the county inquired with the Ministry of Environment and the Gyeongnam Provincial Police Agency about the possibility of restoring the site, including the removal of waste, following the suspension of execution decision, and after consulting legal experts and considering comprehensive factors, recently issued a restoration order to the company.

The company began restoring the waste piled on-site with registered transport vehicles from the 7th and has removed about 600 tons so far. The county estimates the total piled waste to be 45,000 tons.

The county aims to restore more than half of the piled waste before the rainy season. In particular, to prevent secondary pollution caused by runoff from heavy rain, efforts are focused on installing additional retention tanks and maintaining drainage channels.

Furthermore, the restoration of the waste piled on-site will involve sorting and reprocessing recyclable materials, while non-recyclable waste such as foreign substances will be entrusted to separate landfill facilities for reprocessing according to treatment standards and methods.

A county official stated, “We will fulfill the local government's responsibility to prevent environmental pollution and properly manage and conserve the environment to the end.”

Meanwhile, Uiryeong-gun plans to conduct regular on-site inspections by responsible officials and deploy four environmental monitors to continuously oversee waste removal and intake.

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