The Central Committee's delegation inspects the dike system in Hai Phong. Photo: Dam Thanh.
Hai Phong currently has 24 dikes with a total length of 417 km, in addition, there are 388 sluices under the dike, 118 embankments with a total length of 91 km. In which, according to the classification, there are 248km of grade 3 dykes and 169km of grade 4 dykes, 58km of sea dykes, 128km of estuary dykes and 231km of river dykes.
Over the years, the city's dyke system has received attention from the central and local governments to invest in repairing and upgrading, gradually eradicating the key dykes. With funds from central and local governments, the whole city has nearly 200 km of grade 3 and grade 4 dykes that have been upgraded.
In which, concentrated in districts such as Vinh Bao, Tien Lang, Kien Thuy, An Lao, An Duong, Thuy Nguyen, Duong Kinh, Cat Hai.
However, due to the impact of natural disasters, the damaged and degraded structures are still quite a lot. For example, the right dike line Van Uc, the section from K2+600-K5+500 passes through Tu Cuong commune, Tien district. The current state of dike surface elevation is only +3.9 m, dyke width 4.5-5 m has not met design standards, dike surface has not been reinforced, so it is convex and concave, not ensuring dyke safety. , difficulties for flood and storm prevention and rescue and dike rescue when there is an incident.
Breakwater in Do Son shattered after the storm. Photo: Dinh Muoi.
Or as sea dike route 1, the section through Anh Dung, Hai Thanh, and Duong Kinh wards, the current status of dyke surface elevation is only +3.9-4.1m, dyke width is 3 -5m, no ensure design standards, dyke unsafety.
According to Hai Phong Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, from 2008 to now, the total investment in dyke upgrading projects in the area has been allocated more than 2.6 trillion VND to build and upgrade 256/298km. dike, 24.8/27km embankment and 107/139 culverts under the dike.
In addition, to combine traffic on the dike, relevant units have implemented 182.6km of concrete or asphalt dyke surface, 164.6km of crushed stone dike surface.
However, due to the large length of the dyke, many culverts under the dyke, there are still many places and works that are degraded and need to be invested and upgraded to ensure safety.
Currently, according to the latest assessment, stable and safe dykes account for only 80.3%, less stable dykes for 17% and critical dykes for 2.2%.
With dyke and sluice protection embankments, there are only 63.7km of stable embankments to ensure safety, 24km of stable embankments and 2.2km of embankments and 62 critical sluices.
Mr. Tran Quang Hoai - Deputy Head of the National Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control worked with Hai Phong City on dykes in July 2022. Photo: Dam Thanh.
According to the General Department of Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, Hai Phong is currently ranked 6 out of 63 provinces and cities in terms of natural disaster prevention and control according to the provincial and city index sets.
Given the current situation, in the coming time, Hai Phong needs to continue to pay attention to, invest in, and improve the capacity of forces engaged in natural disaster prevention and control at all levels, especially the shock teams for natural disaster prevention and control at all levels. commune.
In addition, it is necessary to strengthen the management of land use in riverbanks and to exploit sand and gravel in river beds to ensure flood and storm control activities.
At the same time, it is necessary to quickly review, supplement and develop new plans and plans to respond to various types of natural disasters corresponding to disaster risk levels in the locality without being passive or unexpected.
It is expected that in the coming time, the Central Government will invest in upgrading, renovating and repairing a number of dikes and key irrigation works of Hai Phong city with a budget of nearly VND 1,800 billion.
In order to promote investment efficiency and avoid spreading and inefficiency, Hai Phong needs to pay attention and invest corresponding resources to supplement funding for upgrading works while meeting the requirements of natural disaster prevention and control. , search and rescue while protecting traffic activities, as well as improving the landscape and environment.
On the other hand, this locality also has strong enough solutions to prevent overloaded vehicles from circulating on the dike, limit the increasingly common dike violations and strictly handle cases of blatant violations.
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