d-space"> and several streams. The city is
divided into seven water districts, with eight filtration plants and seven
sewage treatment plants.
One of
the sewage treatment plants,
Angang
Sewage Disposal Plant
began
operating in April 2005 by the co-investment of the Government of North
Gyeongsang and Gyeongju City with a fund of 44,300,000,000
won
to
install facilities to prevent the pollution of the
Hyeongsan River, which is a main water
source for Gyeongju and
Pohang
residents. The plant is located on a
spacious site with 39,000 m
(420,000 sq ft)
in Homyeong-ri,
Gangdong-myeon
in Gyeongju where nature friendly
facilities provide recreational venues for the locals. Through 56.1 km
(34.9 mi) of sewer pipes and 14
pumping
stations, the plant has a capacity of 18,000 tonnes of
domestic sewage
per day that comes from
Angang-eup, and Gangdong-myeon. The
facilities have high-powered disposal equipment developed by related industrial
companies to maintain the discharged water at the first or second degree in
quality, so that it is used as
river
maintenance flow
and
