Ho Chi Minh City's 10,000 billion anti-flooding project cannot be on time 3
`Up to this moment, it can be said that the flood protection project cannot be completed as planned on April 30 as committed. We do not have a site for construction,` Mr. Nguyen Tam Tien (General Director of Central Group
`This is beyond our capabilities. During the last Tet holiday, we had to give workers time off because honestly, if we worked through Tet, there would be no more work to do,` Mr. Tien said frankly, if he were given the project site,
Mr. Tien compared working on a flood protection project to building a house.
The 10,000 billion anti-flooding project includes 6 giant tidal culverts and the construction of a long dyke with an affected area of about 100 hectares.
As of the end of January, the flood protection project taking into account climate change factors reached 68% of the construction volume with a total volume of steel reaching 80% (nearly 63,000 tons), concrete was completed 68% (more than 320,000 m3
However, investors are waiting for districts to hand over land on both sides of the canal to construct auxiliary works, install technical systems, operate valve gates and build embankments.
To speed up the project progress, Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has asked districts 1, 4, 7, 8 and Binh Chanh and Nha Be districts to ensure handover of premises to investors, no later than May.
City leaders also assigned the Department of Planning and Investment to be the focal point to coordinate departments and branches to comprehensively report on this project from preparation to present.
According to the contract signed between Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee and Trung Nam Group in June 2016, the project to resolve tidal flooding in the city area takes into account climate change factors (phase 1), with a total cost of more than
Ho Chi Minh City leaders then requested to shorten the construction time to 22 months to soon resolve the increasingly serious flooding situation.
The project’s goal is to control tidal flooding and proactively respond to climate change for an area of 750 km2 with about 6.5 million people on the right bank of the Saigon River and the city center.
To ensure the goal of controlling tidal flooding and proactively regulating water, the project focuses on building large tide control culverts and building long dikes.
