Tay Nguyen dam body broken in Quynh Thang commune (Quynh Luu)

(Baonghean.vn) - At around 11:30 a.m. today, September 11, a section of the Tay Nguyen dam in Quynh Thang-Quynh Luu commune broke, causing dozens of households to be submerged in water. The water overflowed so quickly that many households were caught off guard and had their rice soaked and their belongings swept away (no human casualties).

Tay Nguyen Dam Burst

At about 3:30 pm this afternoon, September 11, we arrived at the scene of Tay Nguyen Dam, the inter-commune road was flooded about 400m, about 50cm deep, causing traffic jams. The whirlpool was still rumbling below the foot of the dike with a width of destruction of about 100m of the dike body. The floodwater damaged 5 hectares of rice, some electric poles were broken. At the lake bed, the water had receded about 7-8m, hundreds of people poured into the lake to catch fish.

People flooded into the lake to catch fish.

Mr. Bui Van Tien - Chairman of Quynh Thang commune said: Tay Nguyen Dam was built in 1966, with a capacity of 1 million m³water, providing irrigation for 200 hectares of rice. In 2009, the dam was upgraded, mainly by overlapping the old dam body. Underneath the old dam body, there were many termite nests causing leaks. In 2011, Tay Nguyen Dam treated a termite nest. The cause of the dam body break is being investigated, but it was initially determined that the termite nest had eaten away at the dam body. At around 12 noon today, after discovering a leak, the district and commune mobilized hundreds of people to cut down eucalyptus trees to handle it, but the dam body had slipped and the dam had broken.

Floods damaged rice, flooded roads and houses.

Mr. Le Duc Cuong - Chairman of Quynh Luu District People's Committee said: Immediately after the incident, Quynh Luu District People's Committee directed strongly, evacuating people and property of more than 20 households, not causing damage to people and property. At the same time, mobilized more than 10 trucks and 2 excavators, dumping over 500 m³The soil will be used to wait for the water to recede and fill in the broken section of the dam. Regarding the problem of handling the incident, after the water recedes, the construction of a "green embankment" will be directed to handle the technical aspects of the bottom of the dam, and urgent repairs will be made to store water to serve the people.

Mobilizing trucks to transport soil to repair and rebuild the dam body

Van Truong