To prevent flooding in Bien Hoa city, in addition to synchronous solutions from functional sectors and city authorities, people's awareness in joining hands to maintain environmental hygiene and littering in the right places plays a very important role.
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| A drainage point on Highway 1 (section through Tan Bien Ward, Bien Hoa City) is often covered with garbage. |
Through the rains from May 2023 to now, it has been shown that one of the reasons why some roads in Bien Hoa City are flooded even in light rain is because too much garbage, plastic bags, and leaves have piled up in the sewers and drainage ditches, causing blockages and slowing down the drainage of rainwater.
* Many drainage points are blocked by garbage.
National Highway 1 near Thong Nhat General Hospital (in KP.3, Tan Bien Ward, Bien Hoa City) is a "navel" of flooding in this area every rainy season. To solve the problem of deep flooding when it rains, at many points on this road, the city has installed iron bars to drain water on the road. Right there, the local government also hung a "no dumping" sign. However, the drainage surface is always covered with trash.
According to residents in the area, many people living and doing business nearby have placed their trash on lamp posts for sanitation workers to collect. However, the trash piles up in large piles, many bags are torn and broken, causing the trash to fall, and sanitation workers do not collect it all, leading to the situation where the trash spills onto the street and gets stuck on the surface of the drainage fence, then is run over by large and small vehicles, causing the trash to harden into a thick layer on the surface of the drainage fence.
Vice Chairman of Long Binh Ward People's Committee (Bien Hoa City) TRAN VAN THANG: Strictly handle cases of dumping garbage in the wrong place Currently, the locality regularly inspects and monitors the situation of dumping garbage in the wrong place and indiscriminately discharging waste into streams and canals in the area. Many cases of dumping garbage in the wrong place have been caught and strictly handled. In the coming time, the locality will continue to strengthen inspection and strictly punish those who take advantage of the quiet noon, night, and heavy rain to secretly dump garbage in rivers, streams, and vacant lots in residential areas and along roadsides. The locality is still making efforts to propagate and mobilize people to raise awareness about dumping garbage in the right place, protecting the living environment is protecting oneself. |
Mr. Dinh Van Nhien (residing in KP.3, Tan Bien Ward) said that before the rainy season, there was a team of sanitation workers who went to remove, collect, and clean these drainage panels, but after only a few days, the garbage was blocked again. When it rained, the water could not drain, causing flooding. He himself had to go out in the rain many times to remove the garbage stuck on the panels so that the rainwater could drain away. In addition, during the process of rainwater flowing, it carried large and small bags of garbage onto the road. A lot of garbage was stuck, and the water could not drain, so it rose up, overflowed into people's houses, and brought along bags of floating garbage.
Not only are the storm water drainage "throats" on some sections of National Highway 1 blocked by trash, but many other roads in Bien Hoa City are also in this situation. For example, Bui Van Hoa Street connecting Tam Hoa Roundabout with National Highway 51 has just been built with a drainage system. Some sections of the ditches are also covered with iron bars or designed to drain water on the road. However, walking along this route, we noted that most of the iron bars were covered with trash and the drainage areas were also covered with trash, piled up into small piles.
Or on Dong Khoi Street, the section in front of the Dong Nai Statistical Office (in Tan Hiep Ward, Bien Hoa City) is often flooded every time it rains. However, the iron grates for drainage in this area are also covered with trash, causing this section of the road to often be deeply flooded because the water cannot drain.
Similarly, on Pham Van Thuan Street (through Tam Hiep Ward), some drainage areas are not clear enough to drain water when it rains. Many fences and drainage areas, if not covered with trash, are blocked by people with plastic tarps, old mats or other objects to prevent the stench from the sewers.
Ms. Tran Thi Mui (residing in KP.3A, Trang Dai Ward, Bien Hoa City) has a house along Bui Trong Nghia Street. She said that every time it rains heavily, trash from the alleys flows out onto the street. The trash flows with the rainwater to the drainage areas, the strong water flow sweeps these trash bags in, small trash bags slide into the sewers, large trash bags get stuck, blocking the drainage, making it take many hours for the water to drain completely. Sometimes it floods into people's houses, causing damage to furniture and environmental pollution.
* The State and the people join hands
Many opinions say that, to solve the problem of preventing recurrent flooding in Bien Hoa city, in addition to focusing on and speeding up the progress of flood prevention projects in the area, Bien Hoa city also needs to pay attention to the issue of urban drainage when planning residential areas and roads, and the planning must have a long-term vision when the population of Bien Hoa city is increasing every day. At the same time, the government also needs to strengthen propaganda, mobilize people to throw garbage in the right place and strictly handle cases of littering.
Along Phan Dinh Phung Street (in 2 wards: Trung Dung and Thanh Binh), there are many drainage areas that are blocked by garbage or covered by hard materials by people to avoid the bad smell. This leads to a situation where when it rains, the water cannot drain, causing prolonged flooding after the rain. |
Regarding this issue, Head of the Bien Hoa City Urban Management Department Truong Vinh Hiep said that, in the face of the above situation, the city's leaders have had solutions to overcome and handle the situation such as: speeding up the implementation of flood prevention projects; dredging and clearing sewers, ditches, streams... The Department has also urged public service contractors to organize inspections and dredging of the sewer system, canals in the city to ensure smooth drainage. At the same time, urge the City Investment Project Management Board to speed up the implementation of flood prevention projects, including the Chua Stream, Ba Lua Stream and Cau Quan Stream flood prevention projects to put them into use soon, completely resolving the flooding situation in the city.
However, the most difficult thing is to raise the awareness of urban residents in not littering indiscriminately into the environment. Through a survey of the causes of flooding in Bien Hoa City, the situation of littering causing congestion and flooding is mostly due to many people in residential areas not being aware of disposing of garbage in the right place, and littering indiscriminately into rivers, streams, canals, ditches or blocking drainage areas on the streets..., causing more difficulties for drainage when there is heavy rain.
Regarding this issue, the city has also reminded the authorities of wards and communes to increase inspection, patrol and strictly handle cases of dumping waste in the wrong places, causing congestion and limiting drainage capacity on the streets during and after rain.
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| Many drainage points on Phan Dinh Phung Street (Bien Hoa City) are covered with garbage or people use objects to cover the stench, causing rainwater to not drain quickly. |
According to Mr. Truong Vinh Hiep, while the city is implementing large-scale flood prevention solutions, people should join hands with the city in disposing of garbage in the right places, not littering in canals, ditches, rivers, streams and regularly cleaning up garbage in drainage areas in the area where they live to improve drainage.
Phuong Lieu
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