Data Shows Four Rivers Project Improved Water Quality on Yeongsan River
Here is another legacy of the prior Lee Myung-bak administration that the South Korean left has been hoping to tear down:
Experts and environmental groups argued that the weirs of the four-rivers restoration project just had to be opened and the water quality and ecosystems would return to normal.
That, according to a report last month from a special committee of 43 experts, didn’t happen.
Based on government monitoring between June 2017 and Feb. 20, 2019, the chlorophyll a (Chl-a) levels at the Seungchon weir on the Yeongsan River rose from 46 milligrams per cubic meters to 52 milligrams. A high concentration of chlorophyll results in algae bloom.
The chemical oxygen demand (COD), also another water-quality metric, increased from 8.5 parts per million to 10.7 parts per million. The fish assessment index (FAI) at the Seungchon weir fell from 28.8 to 28.2. This means that the ecosystem has worsened.Readings from the Juksan weir, also on the Yeongsan River, also suggested a deterioration. The Chl-a level there was up from 59 milligram per cubic meters to 84, while the COD level rose from 9.1 parts per million to 9.3 parts per million.
Joong Ang Ilbo
You can read much more at the link, but one of the reasons the Four Rivers Project was initiated was to improve water quality and this study tends to confirm that it has done that. However, the environmentalists say they are going to go back and find a way to get better data.
It makes me wonder if these scientists would look for more data if the initial data gave them the results they wanted?
Farmers in Korea loved the four rivers project, gave them predictable water all year….now commie moon, in a bid to ruin Korea, is tearing it apart.
Socialists always create bankruptcies and shortages. Then they put their enemies into gulags. They also destroy the environment.
Very sad to see the process taking place in South Korea. It was a wonderful place not too long ago.