Lam Dong: Urgent inspection of coastal irrigation works and heavily flooded residential areas

Faced with the complicated developments of floods, on the morning of November 8, Vice Chairman of Lam Dong Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Minh and a working delegation urgently inspected a number of irrigation works in coastal areas and heavily flooded residential areas to proactively grasp the situation, check response work, and provide timely support to people in affected areas.

Báo Tin Tức•08/11/2025

Photo caption — Vice Chairman of Lam Dong Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Minh (striped shirt, standing in the middle) discussed with units about ensuring the safety of water reservoirs.

At the checkpoints, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Minh requested the locality to urgently support the relocation and arrange temporary accommodation for people on the morning of November 8; the process of relocating people must ensure absolute safety and minimize property damage to people. On the other hand, actively mobilize donors to support essential necessities for people, especially paying attention to the elderly and children. Along with that, assign staff to be on duty 24/24 at flooded areas to promptly support people. Immediately after the water recedes, urgently support people to soon stabilize their lives.

The Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also reminded the locality to continuously update water resources, especially at Tan Lap, Ta Mon and Song Phan lakes, to proactively take timely response measures. Binh Thuan Irrigation Works Exploitation One Member Limited Liability Company proactively builds many scenarios and specific operating plans, and at the same time well implements the 4 on-site motto, on-site logistics must be ensured. In case the flood situation develops complicatedly, the flood discharge regulation process needs to continuously and promptly warn information, to avoid human casualties during the flood discharge regulation process.

According to a quick report from the People's Committee of Luong Son commune (Lam Dong), on the evening of November 7 and early morning of November 8, there was damage caused by floods in the area. Accordingly, due to the influence of heavy rain, the upstream area of Luy river experienced prolonged heavy rain, large amounts of water poured in, at the Luy river hydrological station, the highest flood peak measured at 23:00 was 28.10 m (exceeding alarm level II by 0.6 m), causing floods and inundation of residential areas and crops of people in Luong Son commune.

Initial statistics recorded about 170 flooded houses in the villages: Luong Bac, Luong Tay, Luong Binh, Tan Son,... mainly flooded under 1m. Regarding agricultural area damaged about 200 hectares of crops: corn, vegetables of all kinds, mainly flooded areas along both sides of Luy river. Landslide on a section of traffic route along the inter-district canal, through Luong Son commune.

In Ham Thuan Nam commune, heavy rain isolated 90 households; of which, 50 houses in Lap Vinh village were flooded with a depth of less than 1 meter. About 100 hectares of agricultural land were damaged (dragon fruit and rice along the Phan River). About 50 pigs, 150 chickens and ducks were affected.

According to statistics, 3 fishing boats sank in the province due to the impact of floods. Localities are continuing to count the damage.

Immediately after receiving information about the large amount of water flowing from the upstream, the functional units proactively arranged forces to directly respond to key areas, fully prepared in terms of forces and equipment for response work, evacuation of people and people's property when floods occur; widely informed on loudspeakers and radio stations of the commune with a frequency of 3-5 minutes/time so that people are informed, proactively evacuate property and livestock from the area along the river; advised people not to travel or stay in houses, huts along both sides of rivers and streams, especially in the basins of Luy River, Phan River...

Currently, units are on duty 24/7, closely monitoring weather and flood situations; promptly informing people for prevention; proactively preparing adequate supplies, equipment, and forces according to the "4 on-site" motto; not allowing passive and unexpected situations to occur.

Source: https://baotintuc.vn/thoi-su/lam-dong-kiem-tra-khan-cong-trinh-thuy-loi-ven-bien-va-cac-diem-dan-cu-bi-ngap-nang-20251108134426547.htm