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Environmental Assessment for the Large- Scale Waste Landfill Site in SEOUL Metropolitan Area

CS8.1.2 #493. Environmental Assessment for the Large- Scale Waste Landfill Site in SEOUL Metropolitan Area. June 5, 2007. Jakon Koo*, Muchoon Lee, KyungA Lee Department of Environmental Engineering Yonsei University, Wonju, Korea E-mail: koo904@yonsei.ac.kr. SUDOKWON Landfill Site.

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Environmental Assessment for the Large- Scale Waste Landfill Site in SEOUL Metropolitan Area

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  1. CS8.1.2 #493 Environmental Assessment for the Large- Scale Waste Landfill Site in SEOUL Metropolitan Area June 5, 2007 Jakon Koo*, Muchoon Lee, KyungA Lee Department of Environmental Engineering Yonsei University, Wonju, Korea E-mail: koo904@yonsei.ac.kr

  2. SUDOKWON Landfill Site • One of the largest sanitary landfill site in the world • Operated from 1992 for treatment of waste generated by 21 million people living in SEOUL and its vicinity in Korea • Consists of four large landfill sectors including landfill sector #1 that caused the dispute with the local residents • Became a target of public nuisance in the first half of the 1990s because of environmental degradation such as bad odor, dusts and noise, etc. • Landfill sector #2 is being operated at this time while the landfill sector #1 was closed down by expiration in 2000

  3. Large-scale Waste Landfill Site • Waste landfill facilities larger than landfill capacity of 300 ton per day out of • Landfill sites that exceed the area of 150 thousands square meters • Should be assessed by the authorized environmental institutions every three years • Should open to the public the result of the environmental assessment • Should monitor the air quality, surface and ground water quality, noise level and soil contaminants seasonally obeying the Korean environmental regulations

  4. Effect-Zone of Waste Landfill Site • Environmentally-adverse-effect-zone(EAEZ) is legally recognized the inner area of 2km from boundary line of landfill site • EAEZ of SUDOKWON landfill site had been recognized exceptionally the inside of 5km from boundary line of landfill site for smoothing down the residents’ complaints in 1996 • The research team of YONSEI and INHA University had reported that EAEZ of SUDOKWON landfill site could be scaled down to the 2km zone • Based on the comprehensive environmental assessment during 2004~2005

  5. Environmental Assessment for Landfill Site • Step 1 : Investigation of the environmental quality • Step 2 : Prediction of the future environmental quality • Step 3 : Scoring the future environmental quality levels • Step 4 : Summation of environmental score to 500mx 500m grids map • Step 5 : Marking out a boundary line that significantly over the residential environment quality

  6. EAEZ of SUDOKWON Waste Landfill Site KIMPO EAEZ SUDOKWON Landfill Site SEOUL Yellow Sea INCHEON INCHEON Airport

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