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is a forecast that the silent rain will fall again across the country tomorrow (15th). Until now, the damage has been so great that it will take some time for restoration work, especially in the Geum River, Seomjin River, and Nakdong River basins, where the amount of discharged from the dam increased or the embankment collapsed, causing the area to be flooded. Even if we were prepared well, we were able to sufficiently reduce the damage, but there was a reason for not doing so. Since the mid-2000s, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport has been preparing a comprehensive watershed plan that contains flood control measures for major rivers. This flood control plan is intended to be supplemented in accordance with climate change or changed environments. But, for some reason, nothing has changed from the first creation for over 10 years.

Reporter Park Jae-hyun and reporter Jo Yoon-ha covered the reason and problem together.

<Reporter Park Jae-hyun>

Pyeongchon-ri, Geumsan-gun, Chungcheongnam-do, was submerged in water while the Yongdam Dam discharged 3,000 tons per second in heavy rain on the 8th.

[Yang Hyun-il/Pyeongchon 1-ri Lee Jang: (Water) overflowed over the bridge. Two railings overflowed, and the Geumgang water overflowed. All of this area... The whole town is completely submerged.] The

banks of the Seomjin River and Nakdong Rivers also collapsed, and many places were flooded.

[Kyung-ja Choi / Victim (last 9th): I can't write anything. nothing. There is not one thing that can be used. So how do you live... . The water was full to the roof. To the roof... .]

To prevent such damage, the government created a comprehensive watershed plan for about 10 rivers, including the four major rivers, from the mid-2000s.

Considering the size of the dams and rivers, the main idea is to prepare a pumping station and reservoir near the river in preparation for flooding, and the law stipulates that if there is anything to be repaired once every 5 years, it should be repaired and created once every 10 years.

However, SBS reports confirmed that the flood-damaged Seomjin River and Geumgang River in 2008 and the Nakdong River in 2009 have not been revised until now.

[Government official: (2008) What you checked is the latest. (New plan) I'm making it now.] As

I rely on a flood control plan that is more than 10 years old, there are many loopholes.

The changes in the climate of Korea and the environment around rivers were not reflected at all.

In the 2008 flood control plan, the maximum amount of rainfall per day that can fall in the next 10 years in Jangsu-gun, Jeollabuk-do near Yongdam Dam is expected to be 198.5mm.

However, the rain that fell on longevity a day on the 8th was 237mm.

The basic premise, such as predicting the maximum precipitation, has to be wrong.

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<Reporter Yoon-Ha Jo>

This is the'Musil Reservoir', which was specified as an agricultural reservoir in the 2008 Han River Basin Comprehensive Plan Report.

The basin covers an area of ​​13.3 km² and can store quite a bit of water, so it was once considered a reserve reservoir for redevelopment.

What about the photo five years ago. Five years ago, like a reservoir, it was filled with water like this, but now the water is completely covered with dirt, and construction is in full swing to create a station area.

Although the development progressed and it became a flat land, it is still marked as a reservoir on the plan.

In the case of Gunwi Dam, it was completed after establishing a flood control plan and was not reflected in the flood control plan.

What is the reason why the plan is separate and reality is separate?

In 2018, the government turned over the water control plan from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport to the Ministry of Environment, saying that it would unify water management.

Part of the River Law, which contains flood control plans, has also been incorporated into the newly enacted Water Resources Survey Law.

As the responsible party changed, discussions on water management measures including the flood control plan continued to be delayed, and the existing plans were left unchanged.

Another problem is that there is no organization overseeing flood preparedness.

A large plan to prepare for flooding is established by the Ministry of Environment, the ministry in charge, and detailed measures related to flooding are implemented by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

It is difficult to respond to urgent disasters as the Ministry of Environment is in charge of dams, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Local governments for rivers, and the Ministry of Public Administration and Security for various safety management.

[Seongjun Kim/Professor, Konkuk University School of Social and Environmental Engineering: Flood is that there is no collaboration system. They say they don't know each other. It means that there must be a council of (Ministry) jointly. Even if there is a good cooperation system, flood damage can be greatly reduced.] The

Ministry of Environment said that it has started calculating the amount of flooding in major rivers, which is the basis for the flood control plan from 2017, and that it will establish a new flood control plan by receiving enough opinions by 2022.

We don't know how much rain will be coming next year, but we still have to rely on the past flood control plans that are over 10 years old.

(Video coverage: Seo Jin-ho·Shin Dong-hwan, Video editing: So Ji-hye·Kim Jong-tae, VJ: Lee Jun-young) 

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