Firm grasp to drive for the Restoration Project.
The governor of Jeonnam Province, PARK Jun-Yeong (consecutive third term through provincial election on June 2nd ), by saying, "The Four Major Rivers Restoration Project can be wrongfully denounced as a political struggle, however, our Yeongsan River is definitely our pending issue of local community", accentuated his strong and firm drive to conduct the river revitalization project. In June 7, on the Jeonnam Provincial Office, he held first press avail and underlined, "The Yeongsan River has been so contaminated that it cannot be even used for agricultural purpose like irrigated water. That's why we must improve the water quality of the Yeongsan River. "
He continued to explain the situation of the present Yeongsan River, "After the standoff on estuary bank, the water quality was drastically worsened so not to be able to use as even agricultural purpose. Some places have 3 meter-high heaps accumulated by deposit soil after inundations. Because of the inflows of sewage from everywhere, residents suffer from musty-fusty stench and the river became the poor small creek." He continued, "Since 2005, the endeavor to revive the river in Hampyeong was blocked to be suspended due to insufficient support from central government. Among the hardships, two years ago we could do a dredge in courtesy of the 'association of heavy equipment' in local community". After his assertion on last November 2009 in the groundbreaking ceremony for 'Revitalization Project for the Yeongsan River' held in President LEE's participation, governor PARK Jun-Yeong was condemned from the Democrats who intensively oppose to the Four Rivers Restoration Project. Some Democrats pointed out unduly that governor PARK did compromisingly saccharine praise on the project which is to oppose by the party platform. Nevertheless, He stood firm in his reasserted view, "To say nothing of the other rivers, we must revive the Yeongsan River at any cost".
