'De Vinh must be rebuilt to be less worrisome'

(Baonghean.vn) - After 3 days of protecting Vinh dike, the forces have dug and built nearly 1000m³ soil and rock and basically reinforced weak points.

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This morning, October 15, nearly 200 soldiers are still dropping boulders into the Vinh River to block the flow. During 3 days of active dike protection, according to the report of Vinh Tan Ward People's Committee, the forces have dug and built 200m.³sand, 200m3 of soil, 30m of embankment and 250m of riverbank³rocks down the river, a total of nearly 1000m³ soil, rock, sand have been mobilized.

The embankment on the Hung Nguyen side has been reinforced with sandbags and bamboo poles. Photo: Tran Chau

Today according to plan must complete dropping 300m into the river³The water level of the Vinh River has now dropped by 1m due to good drainage work and the dike protection work is expected to be completed today.

Mr. Nguyen Hoang Manh, Chairman of Vinh Tan Ward People's Committee, Vinh City said: The Vinh River dike has been weak and degraded for a long time, it has not been upgraded for decades, the dike is weak, the soil is soft, the dike body is low. Vinh Tan Ward has repeatedly proposed to the city and the province that the low Vinh River dike needs to be renewed, reinforced, and the dike body raised, but it is not safe to leave it like this because there are some vulnerable locations that need to be reinforced as it is now.

Discussing the plan to prevent storms and floods at the beginning of the year, the Chairman of Vinh Tan Ward said: Upgrading the dike is the responsibility of the province, the locality only mobilizes people when there is an incident and propagates about evacuation and protecting lives.

The Vinh dike is more solid after 3 days of reinforcement by soldiers. Photo: Tran Chau

The incident at Vinh dike in recent days shows that the weather is becoming more and more abnormal, the consequences of natural disasters are getting bigger and bigger, and in Vinh, the drainage of the Vinh River is difficult, especially when the water level of Vinh River is equal to Lam River, so the risk of dike failure is high.

If the locality had prepared carefully on the spot and had a scenario for incidents, the dike patching would not have been so urgent.

The current dike reinforcement and protection is only temporary and temporary. In the long term, the Vinh River dike needs to be upgraded and renovated like other dikes in the province.

Today, soldiers from the provincial military command continued to drop 300 cubic meters of rocks into the riverbed to divide the flow. Photo: Tran Chau

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