The Geumnam Weir is located at the right front of Sejong City (planned to be an administrative complex). It completed for the first time among sixteen weirs of the Project and finished floodgate operation test on April 2011. When stainless floodgate starts to lean downstream, huge amount of retained water was discharged out with tremendous spray of water. Unlike the other weirs, the Geumnam Weir has no dimensional artwork or winch. It’s like an underwater structure shallowly submerged. Therefore, the visitors to here often mistake the adjacent bridge for the weir. At the time ago, opposition sentiments were too extremely high to assure them that the bridge was not weir. The Sejong 1 Zone on the Geum River (where the Geumnam Weir belongs to) regained much purer water thanks to completion of waterway enhancement works last year. So, the pile of pebble down the closed sluice gate used to be an optimal place for hunting birds. You can see herons pick up fishes and ducks’ expedition on the river. It is due to a return of abundant fisheries as river-water getting purer.
From the inside of a copper dam aside of birds Habitat, shard grinding sound vented itself, and welding flame was constantly popping out from a bundle of steel plumbing pipes. There was place for finishing work for a small hydro-power plant and oil pressure valves. Since the all the floodgates which block or discharge the stream of river are operated by this oil pressure valve, it might as well be a centerpiece of this operation. The rest part of the weir in the right bank is also scheduled to be completed by June. The near upward area of the Geumnam Weir is a confluence where the Miho Stream and main stream of the Geum. The river width of the area is merely 100 meter so that accumulation of sediments is severe and full of densely overgrown bushes. After it was arranged by raking out riverbed sediments, the area became an excellent waterfront zone in the whole Geum River basin. Only the newly created waterfront area at least on the upper basin numbers 10 km in length. In the revived super embankment of over 20 km-long, cherry blossom trees (planted last October) boast its snowball-like petals as if celebrating the revitalization of the river.
