A street flooded due to high tides in HCM City’s district 8 (Source: VNA)HCM City (VNS/VNA) - The Southern Regional Hydro-Meteorological Center hasannounced that river tides in Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong Delta regionreached flood warning level 3 on September 30 and October 1.
There aresix warning levels, with more than 5m being the maximum.
Thecentre said the tides at Phu An and Nha Be stations on the Sai Gon-Dong Nairivers rose to a record 1.68-1.70m on the two days. The peak times are from 5amto 7am and 4pm to 6pm.
Thecentre has issued flood warning level 2 for until October 2.
OnSeptember 29 afternoon in district 8’s Me Coc Street, the tide caused30m of the embankment to collapse, badly flooding the entire area near KenhNgang Bridge No 3.
Membersof the militia force in the district’s ward 16 were piling sandbags past 1am onSeptember 30 to create a temporary embankment there.
But thewater continued to pour in, and with the inundation above 50cm motorbikes,especially, and cars found it difficult to traverse the road.
NguyenMai Trung, Chairman of the district’s Ward 15 People’s Committee, said repairsare being carried out on the damaged embankment and water is being pumped backinto the river.
Implementationof an environmental improvement project there had affected the embankment andcaused it to break, he said.
OnSeptember 29 flooding of 0.3-0.5m occurred on many streets in districts 2, 8,7, Nha Be, Binh Thanh, Binh Tan, and others.
In theMekong River, water levels are expected to be 0.2-0.3m higher than the floodwarning level 3 because of high tides and water simultaneously flow down fromthe upstream region.
Thecentre has warned that local authorities and the public should be prepared forflooding in low-lying areas and near rivers.
Moststreets in Can Tho city on September 30 were flooded by up to 0.5m,leading to traffic congestion.
At Con KhuongIslet in Ninh Kieu district of Can Tho, water from the Hau River broke a dyke,flooding houses and orchards./.
VNA
