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Cheongsong Children's Park

Seongdong-gu (Mayor Jeong Wono) announced plans to transform three aging parks, including Cheongsong Small Park, into rainwater gardens to mitigate urban heat island effects and enhance ecological functions within the city.

While renovating the parks, the district utilized 'rainwater storage tanks.'

The rainwater storage tank system consists of ▲a tank to store rainwater ▲grass mats ▲and protective green belt panels. When it rains, rainwater is stored from the ground surface, creating a water circulation facility that helps alleviate the urban heat island effect and serves as an integrated water circulation system to respond to the climate crisis.

In these newly created parks, rainwater is collected during rainfall and supplied to tree roots during dry periods, improving growth conditions and reducing water consumption. Seongdong-gu expects that establishing rainwater gardens will contribute to creating a sustainable green environment in the urban area. Accordingly, with a budget of 600 million KRW, the district has transformed Seongsu Neighborhood Park and Cheongsong Small Park into rainwater gardens, and plans to reopen Hyangrim Park by the end of June.

In Seoul and other urban areas, concrete pavement makes it difficult for rainwater to seep into the ground. Creating parks covered with soil is considered one of the mid- to long-term measures to prepare for heavy rains during the monsoon season. Seongdong-gu plans to continuously manage urban parks by renovating Oksoo-dong Children's Dream Park in the second half of the year using rainwater management facilities.

In preparation for the full monsoon season, the district has also completed comprehensive safety inspections of landslide-prone areas, steep slopes, and forest disaster risk zones. They checked for falling rocks, water leakage, and cracks at four steep slope sites within forests such as Daehyeonsan Mountain, and inspected the condition of installed rockfall prevention structures. Additionally, drainage maintenance, slope cracks and subsidence, and tree uprooting were inspected and preemptively addressed at four landslide-prone areas including Maebongsan Mountain and other hazardous slopes within forested areas.

Jeong Wono, Mayor of Seongdong-gu, stated, "Urban sustainability is a major challenge we must pursue for future generations," adding, "We will strive to enable Seongdong-gu to grow into a sustainable, eco-friendly green city through the creation of rainwater gardens that prepare us for climate and environmental changes."

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