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Rural Groundwater Management Project

Project Outline

Devising a plan for sustainable development, use, conservation, and management through researching and analyzing the groundwater status of the 352 Rural Water Supply Areas and establishing and implementing management measures

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Project Plan

Classification Total
Number of Projects(area) 352
Project Cost(million won) 104,408

Expected Effects

  • Preventing thoughtless development and pollution of groundwater of rural community
  • Executing efficient development, use, conservation, and management of groundwater of rural community
  • Prgroundwater of rural communityoviding clean groundwater to rural community
  • Passing down clean groundwater to the next generation through adequate conservation and management of groundwater

Project Results

To establish the necessary measures for each area in order to devise a groundwater development plan for each Rural Water Supply Area, to manage those areas with excessive use and the potential for water pollution, and to use these measures for the efficient development, use, conservation, and management of groundwater resources

161 Rural Water Supply Areas are completed
(56 local governments) unitil 2011
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Project results have been provided as Internet through constructing a Rural Groundwater Management System
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Utilization Cases

  • Groundwater Research
    • Utilizing research on groundwater use statusby local government
    • Management and utilization of public well facilities for agricultural use
    • Restoration and utilization of abandoned wells in rural community
    • Utilizing examination of groundwater development impact ssessment
  • Groundwater Development and Utilization
    • Examining adequate locations of groundwater development for agricultural and domestic water supply and preparation fordrought
    • Utilizing private groundwater developers including farmers
    • Utilizing groundwater development permission and approval management
  • Groundwater Conservation and Management
    • Designation of Muan-gun’s land subsidence areaas Groundwater Conservation Area(Apr.3,2002)
    • Utilizing basic data for establishing regional groundwater management plan
    • Utilizing setting up groundwater management measures for low groundwater level area
    • Utilizing the management of the groundwater registers of local governments
    • Disaster management for concern areas of drought,etc
  • Other
    • Utilizing groundwater quality and quantity data of BK21 research area

Future Plans

The primary investigation of 177 areas(50% of the Rural Community)which are urgently needed to establish measures for preserving and managing groundwater by 2013 as motivated by concerns regarding excessive use and pollution.