Building a 320 billion VND monitoring station next to Formosa Ha Tinh

The marine environmental monitoring and warning system for 4 central provinces has a total cost of 320 billion VND, implemented from 2017 - 2019.

Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has just approved the investment policy for the project to build a marine environmental monitoring and warning system in four central provinces (Ha Tinh, Quang Binh, Quang Tri, Thua Thien Hue).

The pollution incident in the central sea has caused a lot of damage to fishermen. Illustration photo: Duc Hung.

According to the decision, this will be a modern, synchronous system to provide data and information on the current status of the quality of the Central region's marine environment (ambient air, seawater and sediments), and at the same time, promptly warn when the quality of the Central region's marine environment shows signs of pollution.

The project is divided into five components, four of which aim to enhance the capacity of the marine environmental monitoring and warning system of the four above-mentioned provinces.

One of the contents of the component in Ha Tinh province is to build an environmental monitoring and warning station in Vung Ang Economic Zone and surrounding areas. The monitoring station is built adjacent to the campus of Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation and has been approved by the People's Committee of Ha Tinh province to grant land.

The fifth component of the project is to build an environmental warning monitoring system along the coast of four central provinces through a system of automatic monitoring stations, remote sensing technology and periodic monitoring. This component is managed by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

The project has a total estimated cost of 320 billion VND, to be implemented in the period 2017 - 2019.

According to VNE