Quang Ngai: Floodwaters rise, prohibiting traffic through Chau O bridge

(Chinhphu.vn) - Floodwaters have reached the Chau O bridge girder at Km1036+261 of National Highway 1 (QL1) in Quang Ngai province, threatening the safety of the project. To ensure safety, authorities have closed the bridge and regulated traffic through the Da Nang - Quang Ngai expressway and Dung Quat route.

Rising floodwaters have reached the bottom of the Chau O bridge's girder at Km1036+261 of National Highway 1 through Binh Son commune, Quang Ngai province. Source: Vietnam Road Administration

According to the Vietnam Road Administration ( Ministry of Construction ), at noon on October 29, Road Management Area III informed that at 12:40, floodwaters had reached the bottom of the Chau O bridge girder at Km1036+261 of National Highway 1 through Binh Son commune, Quang Ngai province.

To ensure construction safety, Highway QLDB III has assigned forces to the scene to monitor the situation and coordinate with local authorities to regulate and guide traffic.

Prohibit vehicles from crossing the bridge to ensure traffic safety and construction safety. Source: Vietnam Road Administration

Faced with the possibility of rising floodwaters, at 1:15 p.m. the same day, the road management unit coordinated with the Quang Ngai Provincial Traffic Police and the Quang Ngai Provincial Department of Construction to erect barriers, prohibiting vehicles and people from crossing the bridge, and assigned forces to be on duty at both ends of Chau O Bridge and to remotely direct traffic.

Option 1 (option going closer to the local road) vehicles from the North go to the Soi slope intersection Km1028+200/QL.1, turn left to Dung Quat then exit back to QL.1 at Binh Long intersection Km1040+200 and vice versa.

Option 2 (long-distance diversion plan to Da Nang - Quang Ngai Expressway) vehicles from the North go to the Truong Hai overpass intersection (Nui Thanh commune - Da Nang city) Km1011+800/QL.1, turn right to get on the DN-QN Expressway to the intersection Km1063+720/QL1 (intersection between QL1 and Da Nang-Quang Ngai Expressway at Km139+204) to go to the South and vice versa.

Phan Trang

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