<Anchor> When

it rains like this, it is the garbage problem in the lake or river that follows. It was swept away from the Yeongsan River and turned into a huge garbage dump off the coast of Mokpo with a pile of all sorts of garbage and plants.

Reporter Lee Dong-geun of KBC covered the field.

<Reporter> The

ferry dock is covered with garbage.

The sea water also turned to a hazy ocher color.

The ferry between the huge piles of plants and miscellaneous trash is breathtaking.

Purification ships and heavy equipment are being put in and they are working on emergency collection, but there is no end to putting them away.

As you can see, the sea off Mokpo has turned into a garbage dump.

All sorts of garbage, from the piles of plants, to plastic bottles and styrofoam, have been pushed up to the point that it has caused inconvenience in the operation of the passenger ship.

[Song-ik Song/Collection Worker: There are many difficulties in working. Since yesterday, I have been working on it, but it has been endlessly coming.] The

sea ​​off the Peace Plaza, where there is a dancing sea fountain, has also become a mess.

The area around Hagutduk that connects to the sea has turned into a huge garbage dump.

[Park Hwa-yong/Citizen: It was a completely (garbage) island. I exercise every morning, from the bottom of the mountain to the end... ] ​The

trash was poured into the offshore of Mokpo when the drainage lock gate on the river bank of the Youngsan River was opened due to torrential rain.

More than 8,000 tons of rainwater was discharged per second, and it was piled up until the ebb and flow period, causing a heap of trash.

The Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Administration and Mokpo City are mobilizing purification vessels and heavy equipment to clean them up, but the amount of trash is so large and the scattered radius is wide, which makes it difficult.