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$3.4mn approach adopted to ease flooding on Ho Chi Minh City street

$3.4mn approach adopted to ease flooding on Ho Chi Minh City street

Friday, September 09, 2016, 17:08 GMT+7

Ho Chi Minh City has agreed to install a pumping machine as part of a project aimed at alleviating flooding on a main street in the city.

A surface elevation project on Kinh Duong Vuong Street, just one of many thoroughfares in Ho Chi Minh City that fell victim to flooding during the most recent storm in the southern hub, has been approved by the Ho Chi Minh City Steering Center of the Urban Flood Control Program, with groundbreaking slated for early June.

The plan seeks to raise the heights of the street’s center and edge to 2 and 1.7 meters, respectively. As the current peak tide is 1.68 meters, the elevation is necessary to prevent the area from flooding.

Previously, the flood control center, the main investor for the project, had suggested four approaches to solve the street’s flooding issues.

The first three solutions are centered on lowering the height of the sidewalks while maintaining the center of the road’s current elevation.

The fourth solution, agreed upon by local residents and Le Van Khoa, deputy chairman of the municipal People’s Committee, suggests lowering the road surface by 25 centimeters and the sidewalks’ height by 10 centimeters, along with installation of a water pumping station capable of draining 42,000 cubic meters of water per hour.

The approach is estimated to cost VND76 billion (US$3.4 million) and is slated to be carried out only on the middle section of the street, about 880 meters long, because the two ends have been elevated.

Though the plan aims to improve overall livability in the area, local residents have not been shy in voicing their dissent, fearing that their houses might “become basements” if elevated sections are too high and disrupt daily life.

“This is just the most suitable fix at this time, not the best overall approach,” Khoa admitted.

Khoa also requested the flood control center to take responsibility for the solution if it fails to tackle the flooding, and asked the municipal compensation council to support poor local residents in re-structuring their homes.

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