Mai Chau district focuses all forces on handling with floods

7/27/2018 - 11:11:19 AM

(HBO) – To handle with the consequence of the flood, the People's Committee of Mai Chau district already instructed all levels, sectors and members of the District Steering Committee of Disaster Prevention and Victim Rescue to visit the grassroots of communes and towns for checking, inspecting and urging the plans of flood prevention with the motto "four right at the place", at the same time, focusing all forces to help local people overcome difficulties.

At the deep flooded areas

There is no damage of human resources in the whole district. There are 27 houses being slid down that need to be emergently removed, 1 house being flooded, 19 houses in Tan Mai, Tan Dan, Tan Son, Phuc San and one nursery school in Mo Rut village, Tan Mai commune are all in highly potential land-sliding condition. The area of rice being flooded and covered or washed away is 14.91 hectares and 10.7 hectares of vegetable area. Six of the cattle died and were washed away. The amount of soil and rocks buried and damaged many sections of canals and being swept away about 55 metres; Chieng Chau reservoir is infiltrated through the dam body at a distance of 3.5 m from the peak of the dam, the infiltration scope is 150 meter squares. Two medium and low voltage electricity poles were collapsed into the houses, one high voltage power line was cut off and one power cord was broken in Tan Mai commune, two power poles were in danger of being collasped in Dong Bang commune. Particularly, about the traffic in the area of Tong Dau T-junction in Tong Dau commune, which is located on the highway QL6, Km 131 + 200, from dawn on July 21st , heavy rains have led to higher water levels of 2 meters deep and 400 meters long. In addition, heavy rains caused many landslides, many key roads, which causes congestion, some places have been isolated for many hours, causing difficulties to rescue local people such as the routes of Dong Bang - So Lo , Phuc San - Tan Dan, Go Lao - Ba Khan, Thung Khe - Pu Bin, Na Meo - Bao La, Pa Co - Hang Kia.

Mr. Ha Cong Soan, the Head of Agriculture and Rural Development Board of Mai Chau district said: "With 21 households and 75 people in Mo Rut village, Tan Mai commune where flash floods and pipe floods occurred and threatened their lives and properties, the district's functional forces have timely moved the households to the safe place. At the same time, they submitted a written request to the provincial People's Committee to study and consider the construction of new resettlement areas for the households of Mo Rut village to stabilize their lives and production".

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