Actively regulate reservoir operations to ensure downstream safety.

The People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City has just sent an official dispatch to relevant departments, agencies and units to proactively regulate the operation of reservoirs to ensure safety for downstream areas.

Accordingly, the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City requires units and localities to proactively develop appropriate plans and solutions in the operation and regulation of reservoirs to ensure safety of works and minimize flooding downstream, while at the same time, preventing adverse combinations due to heavy rain from the impact of tropical depressions, storms, high tides, and flood discharge in Ho Chi Minh City.

Ho Chi Minh City requires units to proactively regulate reservoirs to ensure safety for downstream areas. Photo: MINH HAI

Specifically, the Southern Irrigation Exploitation Company Limited (Ministry of Agriculture and Environment), Tri An Hydropower Company ( Dong Nai province), the Center for Management and Exploitation of Irrigation Works (Department of Agriculture and Environment of Ho Chi Minh City) regularly review and inspect the safety of works, assess the operating status of equipment, spillways, water intakes, monitoring systems and promptly fix defects (if any); Prepare adequate equipment, means and spare materials to promptly fix incidents and damages caused by natural disasters; Notify the authorities and people in the downstream area when operating water regulation through spillways to proactively take preventive measures, ensuring safety for people and property.

The People's Committees of wards and communes at risk of being affected by flood discharge need to closely monitor the flood discharge developments of reservoirs, promptly inform people about discharge flow and flooding situation to proactively prevent and respond. Focus on implementing measures to respond and overcome consequences (if any)...

The Department of Agriculture and Environment of Ho Chi Minh City regularly monitors and grasps the weather situation, flood regulation information of reservoirs and forecasts weather phenomena and high tides, to inform and warn agencies, organizations and people to proactively prevent and respond; advise and report to the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City when urgent situations arise for timely direction and handling.

MINH HAI

Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/chu-dong-dieu-tiet-van-hanh-ho-chua-dam-bao-an-toan-cho-ha-du-post825536.html