Changwon Special Mayor Hong Nam-pyo Inspects Damage Amid Extreme Heavy Rain

Changwon Special City Strives to Minimize Damage in Disaster-Prone Areas Through Monitoring and Rapid Recovery

Changwon Special City in Gyeongnam began inspecting damage after torrential rain of over 500mm caused a series of incidents.

Changwon Special City Mayor Hong Nampyo is inspecting the damage situation.

On the 21st, Mayor Hong Nam-pyo visited the site of the Masan Hoewon-gu Self-Sufficient Complex Administrative Town Development Project to check the damage, ground conditions, slope deformation, soil loss, and on-site drainage plans, and ordered prompt restoration efforts.

Afterwards, at the Masan Seohang No.1 Drainage Pump Station control room, he inspected the pump station facilities and instructed the rapid operation of pumps in case of future emergency natural disasters. He also visited Changwoncheon to check the river water level and inspect facilities.

In addition, he visited the Disaster Comprehensive Situation Room, which serves as Changwon's disaster control tower, to check disaster prevention facilities and damage in each region, and urged efforts to minimize damage from ongoing extreme rainfall.

Hong Nampyo, mayor of Changwon Special City, visited the Disaster Comprehensive Situation Room, the disaster control tower.

Since the 20th, extreme rainfall in Changwon has caused some damage, including flooding of roads and houses, soil runoff at large construction sites, and loss of stone walls, but there have been no casualties.

Due to continuous and heavy downpours causing numerous incidents such as flooding of roads and underground spaces and soil loss, the city raised its emergency work level, activated the Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters, and is responding to the heavy rain with situation monitoring and emergency operations.

For citizen safety, the city has restricted access to 20 underpasses, 15 riverside walkways, 1 riverside parking lot, 3 valley entrances, and 8 Sewolgyo bridges. At 1:40 a.m. on the 21st, evacuation orders were issued and 33 out of 242 people at risk of landslides were evacuated to village halls and other safe locations.

Mayor Hong Nam-pyo stated, "Although some damage has occurred due to record-breaking rainfall never experienced before, we will do our utmost to restore damages and inspect disaster prevention facilities to minimize inconvenience to citizens through swift on-site response. I also ask all citizens to take every precaution for their safety."

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