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Korea Residents complain tunnel blasting dust, noise pollution Hamyang - Ulsan Construction Highway 14 construction

 

For Hamyang - Ulsan Construction Highway 14 construction, residents complaint about builder company Korea Expressway Corporation. It is second year for construction. Residents continuesly complain.

It is in newspapers the site of Section 9 of National Expressway Route 14 forgot the basics precautions. The anti-pollution facility should be installed to prevent dust by covering the dust cover to prevent secondary pollution. Blasting rock comes after the blasting is done with dynamite. In the process of stabilizing the tunnel ground by pouring shotcrete, blasting rocks should be installed with tarpaulins on the floor or covered with covers so that shotcrete and powdery remnants do not mix with the blasting rocks.

Before the construction Korea Expressway Corporation assure residents blasting noise limited 75db, and the water quality flowing into the river is pH 9.0ph and dissolved solids 85mg / L.  But residents say this is not so.

Residents in a nearby nursing home can not go for walk because noise, dust pollution.Korea Expressway Corporation claim dust below standard level.

https://www.wolyo.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=105231

 

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