Filtration Plant Land to Become Baseball Field
By Kim Tae-jong
Staff Reporter
Land assigned for the old Guui Filtration Plant in Gwangjin-gu, eastern Seoul, will be transformed into a baseball field, the Seoul city government said Thursday.
The plan came into effect under the 11th Seoul City Development Committee ruling, where it was decided that the 48,000-square-meter filtration plant site should be demolished and replaced with a sports facilities.
Some 39,000 square meters of land will be used for the newly commissioned establishment and the remainder will be used for a park.
``The plan is designed to construct a facility which can be used after the demolition of Dongdaemun Baseball Stadium,’’ a city official said.
The Dongdaemun Baseball Stadium area will be transformed into a huge park, of which construction is scheduled to begin early next year.
But civic groups have opposed the city authority’s decision.
Members from the Korean Society of Water and Wastewater, Korean Federation for Environmental Movement and other environmental organizations claimed that the construction of a baseball field on the plant site will ruin a valuable modern historical heritage and threaten the safety of drinking water supplied to homes in Seoul as two other filtration plants are still operating in nearby areas.