‘Change in sewage treatment facility plans based on politics’
Council members blast province for modifying expansion plan

The provincial council has criticized the provincial government’s downscaling of a planned expansion of the Dodu sewage treatment facility.

During a Monday administrative affairs audit, members of the council’s environment and city committee called the decision political. The original plan was to build underground facilities capable of handling 220,000 of wastewater. Rather than that, the province is moving ahead with a 40,000-ton facility. Councilors further criticized the decision by saying it was merely a temporary solution to the problem and that the government failed to take the seriousness of the issue into account.

They added that it was incomprehensible why the province would reverse course on a project for which the national government had already earmarked funding and for which a study was already underway, even in the face of local opposition.

"하수처리장 증설 백지화…정무적 결정"

제주도가 도두하수처리장 증설사업을 백지화한 것에 대해 제주도의회가 지역 민원을 수습하기 위한 정무적 결정이라고 주장했습니다.

제주도의회 환경도시위원회는 오늘(23일) 상하수도본부에 대한 행정사무감사에서 지역 반발을 의식해 도두처리장 4만 톤 증설계획을 백지화하고 향후 22만 톤 규모로 지하화하겠다고 밝힌 것은 현재 하수 문제의 심각성을 고려하지 않은 임시방편적인 결정이라고 말했습니다.

이미 4만 톤 증설을 위한 국비를 확보했고 관련 용역도 진행중인 상황에서 지역이 반발한다고 기존 결정을 번복하는 것은 납득하기 어렵다고 강조했습니다.