Vinh City focuses on cleaning up after floods
After a day submerged in water, garbage, mud, leaves... filled the streets. Currently, wards, communes, and functional forces in Vinh city are focusing on cleaning up, dredging canals, and sumps to ensure drainage.
According to the reporter's records on the morning of September 24, all roads and residential areas in Vinh City have forces coordinating with local people to clean up and dredge canals after the water recedes.
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The 72-meter road is one of the most heavily flooded roads in Vinh City, with water levels ranging from 50 cm to 1 meter on September 23. According to the Nghi Phu commune government, this road is lower in elevation than the surrounding roads, becoming a low-lying area, so heavy rains cause water from many places to flow here, becoming a "fast-flooding, slow-draining" point.
The most flooded section of the route has more than 20 sumps, which are often blocked by garbage, sand, leaves, etc. Therefore, clearing the mouths of the pits is a regular task before, during and after the water recedes. On the morning of September 24, the commune mobilized urban officials, militia and people to dredge and clean up these locations.
In Truong Thi ward, authorities also cleaned up the drains on heavily flooded streets on September 23, such as Tran Thu Do, Truong Thi, Phong Dinh Cang, etc. The garbage was mainly leaves, plastic bags, and plastic bottles.
In Vinh Tan ward, the locality also focused on checking, dredging, and clearing drainage ditches on Le Mao extended street, Ngo Duc Ke, Pham Hong Thai, Dinh Nhat Than, Nguyen Viet Nhung...
Mr. Nguyen Dinh Thanh - Chairman of Vinh Tan Ward People's Committee said: As soon as the water receded, the locality mobilized organizations including urban, militia, youth union, groups and people to scrape the mud and sweep away the trash on the main traffic routes and residential alleys. Thanks to that, many routes have been clean again. At the same time, they supported people to transport their belongings after they had raised them to avoid flooding yesterday (September 23).
Mr. Tran Quang Lam - Vice Chairman of Vinh City People's Committee said: The task of cleaning and dredging drainage ditches and sumps is given top priority after the water recedes because it is still the rainy season, the risk of prolonged heavy rain causing flooding may continue in the coming time.
Every year, the city allocates nearly 2 billion VND to dredge and clear canals, and assigns the City Project Management Board to carry out the work. However, due to the large volume of work and limited funding for this activity, during peak periods of the rainy and stormy season, organizations, unions, ward and commune authorities and people must still join hands to carry out the work.
The severe flooding yesterday, September 23, besides the heavy and prolonged rainfall, also had some other causes such as the drainage system of some roads being old and degraded; some roads are still under construction and not yet completed...
There is a situation where when the water rises, leaves, garbage, plastic bags... cover the collection pits, but only the city's forces carry out dredging and clearing, lacking the cooperation of units, businesses, and people... With nearly 10,000 collection pits in the city, relying only on the functional forces is not enough. Therefore, wards, communes, and units need to strengthen propaganda and mobilize people to raise awareness and responsibility to voluntarily participate in preventing and fighting natural disasters, floods, storms, and inundation...".
Mr. Tran Quang Lam - Vice Chairman of Vinh City People's Committee
Vinh City has just experienced a severe flood after many years. According to statistics, the amount of rain on the evening of September 22 and the morning of September 23 in the area reached 290mm, lasting for many hours, while according to Vinh City leaders, the amount of rain that the city can handle is about 200mm and the rain comes in waves.
On September 23, most of the roads in the city were flooded with ice, the water level ranged from 30cm to about 1.5 meters; second only to the historic flood in October 2019.