The enhancement work for the Hampyeong Stream of the Yeongsan River has been concluded.
On December 2, at the completion ceremony in Hampyeong County, SHIM Myeong-Phil (the head of Office of National River Restoration), AHN Byeong-Ho (the governor of Hampyeong County) and about 600 county residents participated at the ceremony, with watching the changed view of Hampyeong Stream.
The imrovement work on the Hampyeong Stream (the tributary of the Yeongsan) that restored and transformed into eco-stream was propelled as the leading work out of Yeongsan River Projects, and recoded as the secondly completed sector among the Four Major Rivers Restoration Project, next to the Hwamyeong District of the Nakdong.
The Hampyeong Stream has damaged the surrounding lands by inundation in rainy season because of overaccumulated sediments on the riverbed. The Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs constructed riverside water detention facility of 295,000 ㎡ scale in order to prevent those flood damage. This detention facility does the role of reducing flood damage, in ordinary days; it is utilized as a place for eco-park and place for field study experience. Hampyeong County plans to modify the water detentions into ecopark and ecological experience course, and already completed movable weir that can control amount of influx, fishways and tiny fords, therefore aquatic ecosystem also has been restored.
“We will conclude major processes like dredging, weir constructions and creation of riparian ecopark until next June before rainy season to start.”
