Erosion damages a road along the Tra Noc River in Thoi An Dong commune of Binh Thuy district, Can Tho city (Photo: VNA) On May 23, leaders of the municipal People’s Committee inspectederosion along O Mon River in Thoi Lai district and Tra Noc River in Binh Thuy district.
The O Mon River in Thoi Phuoc 1 hamlet in Thoi Lai district’s TanThanh commune was eroded along a section 55 metres long andeight metres wide on May 20, causing a four-metre wide section of road tofall into the river and block travel.
Previously, on April 2, the area was eroded in a section of 58metre length. After the incident, local authorities installed barriers to banpeople entering the eroded area, and used cajuput stakes and plastic sheets totemporarily repair it.
The O Mon River’s section in Thoi Lai town’s Thoi Hoa A hamlet inThoi Lai district was eroded in a section 30 metres long and impactedthe travel of people. The Thoi Lai People’s Committee has temporarilyrepaired the eroded area to secure travel.
Nguyen Thanh Ut, Chairman of the Thoi Lai District People’sCommittee, said that while waiting for the city People’s Committee’s plan ofbuilding concrete erosion prevention embankments in the two eroded areas, thedistrict has decided to build two urgent embankments at a cost of 2 billion VND(85,000 USD).
He petitioned the municipal People’s Committee and the city’s steeringcommittee for climate change response, natural disaster prevention and control,and civil defence to allocate funds to repair the district’s eroded areas.
He also petitioned the city People’s Committee to have a planto build 13 erosion prevention projects with a total length of 7.1 kmalong the O Mon River, areas which have high erosion risk.
The Binh Thuy District People’s Committee petitioned the city People’sCommittee to allocate funds to repair erosion along the Tra Noc River in ThoiThuan area in Thoi An Dong commune.
The Thoi Thuan area was eroded in a section 100 metres longand 50 metres wide, damaging the road along the river and blocking travel.
Nguyen Ngoc He, Vice Chairman of the city People’s Committee,asked local authorities and the two districts’ steering committees for climatechange response, natural disaster prevention and control, and civil defence toinspect the installation of barriers and ropes in eroded areas towarn people.
Local authorities and the steering committees should create safetemporary paths for travel and encourage households to move theirconstruction works and fences out of eroded and erosion-prone areas, he said.
The province’s Irrigation Sub-department should collect thepetitions of localities and consult the city People’s Committee to allocate fundsto repair eroded areas, he said.
Localities should inspect erosion along rivers and canals at thebeginning of the rainy season, encourage households living in erosion proneareas to move to safe areas, and take erosion prevention measures such asbuilding temporary or biological embankments, he said.
The city has taken various measures, including buildingembankments, to prevent and mitigate the damage of erosion along riversand canals in past years.
It had 262 erosion cases along a total length of 9.8kmof rivers and canals in 2010-2022, causing four deaths and fiveinjured and damaging 94 houses, according to the department.
The major reasons for the erosion were the changes in waterflow at bends in rivers and canals, weak banks, illegal construction ofinfrastructure and houses along banks, use of boats, excessive mining of sandand the reduction of sediment deposits in the Mekong River./.
VNA
