Vinh City proposed Trung Long Joint Stock Company to develop a plan to dredge mud from Central Park Lake.

In Document No. 623/UBND-QLDT dated February 15, 2023 sent to Trung Long Joint Stock Company and Hadico Vinh Tan Urban Development Investment Joint Stock Company, Vinh City People's Committee commented:

Central Park Lake. Photo: Thanh Cuong

“Through monitoring of drainage and environmental sanitation in Vinh city in 2021 and 2022, it can be seen that the areas of Hung Binh, Hung Phuc, Truong Thi, Le Mao, Vinh Tan wards are often flooded in the rainy season and polluted in the dry season, affecting people's lives, activities, and property and losing urban beauty; one of the reasons is that the capacity of the regulating lakes in the basin of ditch No. 2 (Central Park Lake and Vinh Tan regulating lake) has been silted, reducing the ability to self-clean, store and regulate rainwater.

To overcome the above situation and promptly prepare for the 2023 storm season, Vinh City People's Committee has the following opinions:

1.Proposal to Trung Long Joint Stock Company: Based on the agreement at the meeting on October 4, 2022, develop a plan to dredge Central Park Lake, work with Vinh City People's Committee (through the Urban Management Department) to agree on the implementation before February 28, 2023.

Document No. 623/UBND-QLDT dated February 15, 2023 of Vinh City People's Committee. Photo: Nhat Lan

2.Propose Hadico Vinh Tan Urban Development Investment Joint Stock Company:

-Organize dredging of Vinh Tan regulating lake, resolve existing architectural objects on the lake surface to increase storage capacity; complete before March 30, 2023.

-Complete the completion documents, overcome the existing problems to hand over the Vinh Tan regulating lake project to Vinh City People's Committee for exploitation and operation to ensure the drainage system operates synchronously and effectively.

Learning about the working session on October 4, 2022 between Vinh City People's Committee and Trung Long Joint Stock Company, a representative of Vinh City Urban Management Department said: "This working session includes many contents related to Central Park. In which, there is discussion about dredging sludge stored in the lake to ensure business interests and community interests.

Through discussion, the Company representative promised to have a plan to simultaneously carry out dredging of sludge and beautify the lake and park landscape. The City People's Committee also requested the Company to soon survey and make a plan to receive support. However, up to now, this content has not been implemented...".

Location of the Central Park Lake drainage outlet. Photo: Thanh Cuong

In September 2022, the Central Park Lake experienced environmental pollution leading to mass fish deaths. Therefore, on September 21, 2022, Vinh City People's Committee issued Document No. 4966/UBND-TNMT assigning Trung Long Joint Stock Company to "Urgently collect and treat dead fish in Central Park Lake, do not let dead fish decompose, causing bad odors and polluting water sources. Develop a plan and roadmap to dredge sediment in the lake". Also in Document No. 4966/UBND-TNMT, Vinh City assigned Vinh Urban Infrastructure Management and Development Joint Stock Company to coordinate with Trung Long Joint Stock Company to inspect and review the drainage ditches and sewers to ensure that wastewater does not flow into the lake.

With Vinh Tan ecological lake, before the Lunar New Year 2023, there was a serious environmental pollution situation, leading to the people living in the area being extremely upset, sending petitions for help to many places. The cause of the ecological lake pollution was determined to be due to wastewater overflowing; in addition, there was a situation of sludge remaining in the lake bed (“The cry of Vinh Tan ecological lake” - Nghe An Electronic Newspaper, February 2, 2023).

In Vinh Tan ecological lake, there is a lot of sludge. Photo: Nhat Lan

To solve this situation, Vinh city has directed the city's wastewater management and operation unit to prevent wastewater from overflowing into the lake.

On the part of the management unit, Hadico Vinh Tan Urban Development Investment Joint Stock Company, up to now, they have agreed to develop a plan to organize comprehensive dredging.

Specifically, the General Director of the Company, Mr. Nguyen Van An, informed the reporter of Nghe An Newspaper on February 14, 2023: "The Board of Directors has decided to assign the company to conduct a survey, make an estimate, hire a professional dredging unit with machinery, barges... to comprehensively dredge Vinh Tan Lake before the 2023 rainy season".