Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc meets flood victims (Source: VNA) In a tour to examine the living conditions of flood affected residents in the provinceon December 21, he also encouraged local residents to overcome difficulties andrestabilise their lives.
The PM visited residents of the inundated An Xuyen 3 hamlet in the province’sPhu My district, as well as residents of Luat Le hamlet in Tuy Phuoc districtwho were suffering from the erosion of the Ha Thanh River dyke.
Five major floods havehit the province since last month, inundating 11 districts, towns and cities inthe province, according to the provincial People’s Committee.
The floods killed 39 people, injured 10, pulled down 551 houses, submerged97,000 and incurred a loss of some 1.9 trillion VND (83.5 million USD).
On the same day, Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh visited flood affectedresidents in the central province of Phu Yen.
At a meeting with the provincial People’s Committee, she highly appreciated theprovince’s efforts in dealing with and overcoming the natural disasters.
She asked the authorities to take care to avoid post-flood accidents and attendto the living conditions of the flood affected residents, especially when theLunar New Year is only a month away.
Two major floods have occurred in Phu Yen since last month, incurring a loss ofnearly 500 billion VND (22 million USD).
Water leakage siteswere discovered at 23 reservoirs in the central province of Binh Dinh onDecember 20, the result of the heavy downpours and flooding that have afflictedthe area since the beginning of the month.
The Centre of Flood andStorm Prevention in the Central and Central Highlands region reported theprovince is strictly monitoring the situation at these reservoirs.
The province also saiderosion in the lower part of Hoai An district’ Van Hoi reservoir has beenrepaired, while three dam outlets were plugged on December 21.
According to the latest reports from the centre, three outlets released thewater level down to 38m via a safe spillway, and a duty team was put on 24 houralert at the dam.
The central province, which was the most damaged locale in the flooding, has atotal of 166 reservoirs built in the 1980-90s, of which 46 are in poor repair.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade reported on December 20 that 70 out of 250reservoirs at hydro-power plants and irrigation lakes in the region continue todischarge water through spillways. Most of the reservoirs are 80 or 95 percentfull.-VNA
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