HCM City plans to give urgent priority to prevent riverbank erosion,according to deputy chairman of the city People's Committee Le MinhTri.
The People's Committee will work with government agencies to devise appropriate erosion-prevention projects, Tri said.
Tri and other city officials on Sept. 24 inspected landslide-proneareas at the Thanh Da Canal in Binh Thanh district, Rach Doi Riverin Nha Be district and Xom Cui Canal in Binh Chanh district.
He also asked the Department of Transport to work with agencies to setup a project to build embankments along Xom Cui Canal in BinhHung Commune's Hamlet 4 in Binh Chanh District.
On July 1,bank erosion occurred at Xom Cui Canal in Binh Hung Commune'sHamlet 4, causing seven houses to fall into the river. Ten houses wereseverely damaged.
The city has 50 riverbank areas facing ahigh risk of landslides, with a total length of more than 30km inDistricts 2, 9, Binh Thanh, Thu Duc, Nha Be and Binh Chanh.
However, the city's People Committee has allocated capital to three ofeight urgent projects to prevent riverbank erosions, according to thecity's Department of Transport.
The project to buildembankments to prevent riverbank erosion at the Thanh Da Canal, whichbegun in 2007, has been implemented slowly because of slow landclearance and lack of capital, according to the Binh Thanh People'sCommittee.
Only one of the Thanh Da project's fourembankment sections has been finished. One section is under constructionand is expected to be completed in November.
Landclearance has not been completed for the remaining two embankmentsections, and capital for construction has not been allocated.
Phan Cong Bang, head of the city Department of Transport's WaterwayManagement Division, the investor of the Thanh Da embankment project,said if the city allocates capital for two embankment sections and ifBinh Thanh completes land clearance, his division will immediately carryout bidding for the construction of the remaining two sections.
The construction period will be about nine months, Bang said.Similarly, a project to prevent landslides at Rach Doi River wassupposed to begin in 2009, but capital has not been allocated./.
The People's Committee will work with government agencies to devise appropriate erosion-prevention projects, Tri said.
Tri and other city officials on Sept. 24 inspected landslide-proneareas at the Thanh Da Canal in Binh Thanh district, Rach Doi Riverin Nha Be district and Xom Cui Canal in Binh Chanh district.
He also asked the Department of Transport to work with agencies to setup a project to build embankments along Xom Cui Canal in BinhHung Commune's Hamlet 4 in Binh Chanh District.
On July 1,bank erosion occurred at Xom Cui Canal in Binh Hung Commune'sHamlet 4, causing seven houses to fall into the river. Ten houses wereseverely damaged.
The city has 50 riverbank areas facing ahigh risk of landslides, with a total length of more than 30km inDistricts 2, 9, Binh Thanh, Thu Duc, Nha Be and Binh Chanh.
However, the city's People Committee has allocated capital to three ofeight urgent projects to prevent riverbank erosions, according to thecity's Department of Transport.
The project to buildembankments to prevent riverbank erosion at the Thanh Da Canal, whichbegun in 2007, has been implemented slowly because of slow landclearance and lack of capital, according to the Binh Thanh People'sCommittee.
Only one of the Thanh Da project's fourembankment sections has been finished. One section is under constructionand is expected to be completed in November.
Landclearance has not been completed for the remaining two embankmentsections, and capital for construction has not been allocated.
Phan Cong Bang, head of the city Department of Transport's WaterwayManagement Division, the investor of the Thanh Da embankment project,said if the city allocates capital for two embankment sections and ifBinh Thanh completes land clearance, his division will immediately carryout bidding for the construction of the remaining two sections.
The construction period will be about nine months, Bang said.Similarly, a project to prevent landslides at Rach Doi River wassupposed to begin in 2009, but capital has not been allocated./.
