After storm No. 3, due to the impact of heavy rain and floods, the river water rose, causing many locations on the dike lines in the province to seep, the river flowed through the dike, and the culverts under the dike were damaged. The rising river water level also caused many sections of the dike to be submerged in water for many days, the soil was saturated with water, when the hydroelectric reservoirs closed their discharge gates, the water suddenly receded, causing the dike slope to collapse, the embankment to collapse, the river bank to collapse, and the river to break in many locations.
The Provincial Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control and Search and Rescue (PCTT&TKCN) and local authorities have quickly taken action to implement immediate solutions, but in the long term, it is necessary to pay attention to investment, consolidation, and improvement of flood prevention capacity, ensuring safety for dykes and irrigation works.
The incident of the eroding of the right bank of the Lo dike (near Tien Du sluice), Tien Du commune, Phu Ninh district due to the impact of rain and floods after storm No. 3 was promptly resolved.
According to the Provincial Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention and Control, the floods have caused 19.3km of dikes to overflow, 0.62km of dike slopes to collapse, nearly 23,500m of river banks to collapse, 1.4km of embankments to collapse, 13 culverts across the dikes to collapse, 12 reservoirs and irrigation dams to collapse, 54 pumping stations to collapse, 177 sluices to be washed away and broken... concentrated in the districts of Doan Hung, Phu Ninh, Cam Khe, Viet Tri city...
The whole province has over 500km of dykes of all kinds, including over 421km of river and stream dykes from level I to level V, 55km of flood-preventing dykes in the fields, and over 32km of secondary dykes. Before storm No. 3 hit the area, the dykes and irrigation works were inspected, reviewed, and repaired at key locations by the provincial authorities and functional units, and safety plans were developed. During the floods, when the incident occurred, the leaders of the Provincial Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention and Control and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development went to the scene to direct localities to mobilize forces to temporarily fix the situation, notify, put up traffic warning signs, restrict people, livestock, and vehicles from entering the landslide area, evacuate households in the landslide area to a safe place; prepare human resources, materials, and means to be ready to handle the incident when it occurs; regularly check and monitor the developments of the incidents...
Comrade Tran Van Quynh - Deputy Head of the Irrigation Sub-Department said: “The unit has implemented, coordinated and inspected the entire dike system in the province. Based on the level of damage, the unit consulted with the Provincial Steering Committee for Disaster Prevention and Control and the Provincial People's Committee on a remedial plan in accordance with regulations. It is recommended that localities, based on their functions, tasks and management authority, proactively arrange funds from the budget and other mobilized sources to overcome damage with minor incidents; strengthen the protection of flood drainage space on river basins and riverbeds in accordance with regulations. For locations of dikes with serious and dangerous incidents, the unit has consulted the province for urgent handling to ensure technical requirements, maintain the stability of dike works, meet flood prevention requirements, protect the safety of people's lives and property, and serve smooth traffic in the area.
Phu Tho province has reported and proposed that the Government, the Prime Minister, ministries and central branches pay attention to investing and supporting the province with 400 billion VND to urgently overcome incidents of dike works, river bank erosion, repair and upgrade seriously damaged irrigation works, 250 billion VND to invest in reinforcing and upgrading weak dike sections, lacking design elevation and landslide points on the left and right dikes of Thao River to ensure flood protection elevation, protect the safety of lives and property of the State and people...
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