[June 8 to 12] Part of construction(destruction) site destroyed by ROUTINE weather and unreliable caissons (Fwd)

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The below is a translation of a June 12 report by Peace Nomad, here and a summary of a June 12 post by Meongye, member of Save Our Sea (SOS) team, here. To see the photos by Cho Sung-Bong on the SOS activities on June 12, see here. 

Photo by Cho Sung-Bong on June 12/ Save Our Sea team on the day. For more photos, click here. 

1. [June 8 to 12] Part of naval base construction (destruction) site destroyed by three days' rain 

Original Korean post by Peace Nomad

The Jeju naval base construction(destruction) is nothing but like pouring water in a pot with a big whole!

It rained for three days on June 8, 9, 10

(* In Gangjeong, it rains on June 14, too. Korea is entering rainy season that will start in earnest around June 18~19, next week)

According to weather report by the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA):

June 8: A sea wave warning was set in force for the south sea far from the Jeju Island at 3 pm. It was set in force in the seas in front of the Jeju Island (east, west, south) around 8 pm. Rather high sea waves of about 2 to 4 m are occurring on the seas.

June 9: Currently at 7 am, the amount of rain shows 9.8 in Jeju City (* north), 16.5 in Seogwipo City (* south where Gangjeong village is located) , 3.8 in Seongsan (* east), and 6 mm in Gosan (* west). Rather heavy rains of 84 in the azalea field in the Halla Mt. and 73 mm in the Euitse Oreum.

June 10, Jeju is cloudy and there will be more rain up to 20 mm until the day. Even though all the special warnings on sea waves that had been in force in the sea were dissolved, caution in navigation and fishery works is needed as there are some sites of dense fog and gusts amid rather high sea waves of 1.5 to 2 mm in all the seas of Jeju and in the  sea westward  far distant from the South Sea.  

The KMA announced that the typhoon that occurred on June 8 moved northward to Japan therefore it did not affect the Jeju Island.

In the naval base construction (destruction site), only basic work on caisson production and work of carrying out steel rods from the dismantling work on the sea-submerged caissons were processed for three days.

The villagers in Gangjeong say it is a ROUTINE weather situation of Gangjeong.

However, on June 12, the naval base construction (destruction) site became ALL MESS EVEN BY THAT ROUTINE WEATHER situation of three days.

The degree of damage in the construction(destruction) site of the east breakwater near the Moetppuri (* eastern tip of the naval base project area) was big even in naked eye. It was proved out that people’s precious  tax is being wasted by law-evasive, shortcut method and illegal construction(destruction) through the monitoring of some parts of construction (destruction) site. You can easily imagine the degree of damage on the west breakwater and inside construction where the works have been much progressed.

Immediately stop illegal construction (destruction) 

and carry out investigation on government affairs in relation to whole naval base construction (destruction)!

(1)    Construction site of the east breakwater

      Most of the tide embankment built by stones carried out by hundreds of dump trucks for a month of May was lost. You can clearly compare it with June 6 photo (above) of same site. The stones in the site without the trace of green algae were all lost.

(2)   Slanted-down caisson

On June 7, three caissons (* a caisson built by Samsung is a huge concrete cube of a 8 story apartment height)  from Hwasoon where Samsung builds caissons for the naval base project had been provisionally installed.

On June 11, three caissons were seriously slanted down with a little difference.

On June 12, workers are restoring caissons artificially removing water all day. What can be done on the caissons seriously slanted.

       (3) Tetra pods slanted in the east breakwater

 Before the installation of tetra pods. Some tetra pods went down or unequally high from others, from which you can guess that some basic stones of breakwater made of stones had been lost. On June 12, personnel from the construction site monitored the slanting degree of tetra pods.

(4)    Illegal construction (destruction) site.

On June 12, dredging works to install caissons to reclaim the sea near the Gureombi Rock Coast was being done even in that situation. However, the destruction was being done with silt-protectors with non-protector layers.

A try to deceive by a transparent guile!

2. [June 12] The reality of Samsung caissons 

Original Korean Post (writing) by Meongye, photos and videos by Save Our Sea team 

Summary

'Being together with the students in an alternative school…We could notice the caissons in the 1st work area which is managed by Samsung C & T.

We could see gaps between the caissons were wide, the edges of them are broken or patched up.. an unreliable national policy project… 

A dredge barge posed its work when we took cameras. A ship was working regularly and often gushing out black smoke..

Still the coast guard cameras were not toward those illegal destruction sites but toward us who do the works on the monitoring of sea contamination, which should be originally the coast guard’s job.