The road leading to some villages of Na Meo commune, Thanh Hoa province suffered serious landslides on July 26, 2025.
Implementing Official Dispatch No. 5721/CD-BCT dated August 1, 2025 of the Ministry of Industry and Trade on urgently overcoming the consequences of floods in Dien Bien province and focusing on responding to landslides and flash floods in the mountainous and midland provinces of the North. Accordingly, the water level on the Ma River is rising rapidly, at 10:00 a.m. on August 1, 2025, the water level of the Ma River at Xa La hydrological station was at 28,172 cm, 22 cm higher than the alarm level 3. It is forecasted that from about 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on August 1, 2025, the water level at Xa La hydrological station is likely to reach 28,350 cm, 200 cm higher than the alarm level 3 (178 cm lower than the historical flood in September 1975). Heavy rain lasting from the night of July 31, 2025 to the morning of August 1, 2025 in Xa Dung, Na Son, Tia Dinh, Muong Luan and Phinh Giang communes in Dien Bien province caused severe damage to people and property.
To proactively respond to heavy rain, landslides, and flash floods, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested units to seriously deploy and implement Official Dispatch No. 5721/CD-BCT dated August 1, 2025 of the Ministry of Industry and Trade; at the same time, focus on implementing the following work contents:
People's Committees of communes and wards:
- Continue to seriously and urgently implement the instructions of the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee in Official Dispatch No. 11/CD-UBND dated July 28, 2025 on proactively responding to natural disasters in the coming time; closely monitor the developments of floods, landslides, flash floods, and landslides; promptly inform people to proactively prevent and avoid; propagate, disseminate, and guide people to proactively respond to minimize damage.
- Urgently review deeply flooded areas along rivers and streams, areas at risk of landslides, flash floods, and areas at risk of being cut off and isolated to promptly have specific plans for stockpiling goods, ensuring the supply of essential goods, especially food, drinking water, and necessities to serve the people, especially households in cut off and isolated areas. Do not let there be a shortage of essential goods to serve the people.
- Prepare forces, materials, means and equipment according to the "4 on-site" motto to promptly and effectively respond to situations and search and rescue; ensure safety of people and means for forces on duty.
- Organize 24/7 standby, promptly inform and report to the Standing Offices of the PCTT, TKCN and PTDS Command Committees at all levels according to regulations.
- Localities, regardless of region or location, are ready to support each other in responding to and overcoming the consequences when natural disasters occur.
Investors of hydroelectric projects:
- Arrange a permanent force to operate and regulate and be ready to handle possible situations; prepare and arrange forces, materials, machinery and equipment to be ready to respond and promptly handle incidents caused by storms, landslides, flash floods and landslides.
- Urgently deploy response plans for storms, landslides, flash floods, and emergency situations to ensure safety for works and downstream areas; regularly organize monitoring and closely monitor meteorological and hydrological developments; proactively and promptly report to the Department of Industry and Trade and competent authorities, coordinate with relevant agencies to operate reservoirs safely and effectively, participate in cutting/reducing/slowing down floods; strictly comply with the approved inter-reservoir and single-reservoir hydropower operation procedures.
- Strictly implement the reservoir operation process approved by competent authorities, deploy plans to ensure the safety of dams and hydroelectric reservoirs, especially in unusual and emergency situations in accordance with the inter-reservoir operation process approved by competent authorities, regulate hydroelectric reservoirs to ensure scientific operation, absolute safety for the project, prevent artificial floods, contribute to flood reduction for downstream areas, closely coordinate with local authorities to provide timely information (including early notification to people before flood discharge operations), ensure safety for people, especially in emergency flood discharge situations.
- Regularly check and evaluate the status of dams, equipment, flood discharge works, water intake gates... promptly fix defects (if any), promptly detect landslide risk points to post warning signs, and report to competent authorities for handling when there are unusual phenomena.
- Deploy plans to ensure safety for the project and downstream areas, communication, monitoring and warning systems in dangerous areas (speaker systems, sirens, radios, lights, hydro poles, signs...) to ensure timely warnings to authorities and people in affected areas.
- For projects under construction, temporarily stop construction at locations at risk of flash floods and landslides, evacuate workers, vehicles, machinery and equipment to safe places; arrange human resources and vehicles at vulnerable locations to ensure the safety of workers and construction items; ensure uninterrupted communication to serve incident response, natural disasters and search and rescue.
- Regularly notify in official written form the People's Committees of communes and wards with areas affected by the project, works, the Steering Committee for Disaster Prevention, Search and Rescue and Disaster Prevention at all levels and relevant units about reservoir operation information, flood discharge information; forecast the possibility of reservoir water level increase and emergency situations occurring according to the prescribed reporting regime.
Mineral exploitation enterprises and organizations:
- Strengthen inspection work, proactively have plans to respond to heavy rain, landslides, flash floods; have measures to prevent landslides and flooding at mines, review and inspect tailings ponds at mines, and deep mining tunnels, ensuring absolute safety for people and mineral exploitation works.
- Organize inspection and thorough review of slopes, around and behind construction works, warehouses, factories, operator offices, works near slopes, mines and waste dumps... to detect risks of landslides, unsafe conditions to take timely measures.
- Check and strengthen the drainage pump system, power supply system, and backup generator to ensure readiness to respond to prolonged heavy rain and flooding.
- For construction projects under construction, temporarily stop construction in areas at risk of flash floods and landslides, have plans to evacuate workers, machinery, materials and equipment to safe places, ensure smooth communication to serve incident response, natural disasters and search and rescue. Assign the Department of Agriculture and Environment to issue a document to deploy to mineral exploitation enterprises and organizations the above instructions.
Thanh Hoa Power Transmission Team, Thanh Hoa Power Company:
- Closely monitor the situation of landslides, flash floods, and flash floods. Proactively develop response plans for flash floods and landslides, ensure safe and stable power supply, especially for important loads; strengthen inspection of the power grid system in vulnerable areas, promptly detect and handle points that cause grid insecurity, limit incidents, and ensure the safety of power projects.
- Prepare all resources, equipment, means, and materials to deal with landslides, flash floods, and flash floods. Urgently and promptly fix power grid problems caused by landslides, flash floods, and flash floods in the fastest time, soon restore power to serve the people, especially ensure power supply for important loads, pumping stations for flood control, water plants, hospitals, offices, radio stations, etc.
Thanh Hoa Newspaper and Radio - Television: Increase information on developments of rain, floods, and the situation of flood discharge from hydroelectric reservoirs to people at all levels of government for proactive prevention.
Request the above departments, branches, units, People's Committees of communes and wards to organize 24/24h duty, regularly monitor the developments of storms and rains from the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, prepare forces and means to respond to natural disasters, focus on directing and organizing the serious implementation of the above instructions.
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