Yeoncheon-gun, Gyeonggi Province announced on the 6th that it will promote a project to respond to small organisms (such as micro larvae) to ensure the safe production and supply of tap water.
The tap water midge larvae incident that occurred in July 2020 in Seo-gu, Incheon Metropolitan City, and other areas caused a nationwide stir, amplifying citizens' anxiety about using tap water.
The Yeoncheon-gun Clean Water Management Office is intensively monitoring small organisms (micro larvae) throughout the entire water purification process by installing precision filtration devices in sedimentation basins, filtration basins, water purification basins (transmission pipelines), and two distribution reservoirs (Howoo and Gunnam distribution reservoirs) to actively respond to small organisms in tap water.
In particular, unlike simple strainers that only filter adult insects at the outlets of transmission pipelines and distribution reservoirs, the installation of precision filtration devices is being promoted through national funding as part of the water purification plant small organism response system project to fundamentally block the inflow of micro larvae, making every effort to supply stable tap water.
An official from the Clean Water Management Office said, “As part of the same project next year, we will additionally install precision filtration devices at the Okgye distribution reservoir in Gunnam-myeon to fundamentally block the inflow of small organisms throughout Yeoncheon-gun.”
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