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The issue has surfaced after many areas in Central Vietnam along National Highway 1A were heavily flooded due to torrential rains caused by the storm No.8 these days.
Speaking with the Daily, transport expert Pham Sanh insisted that the construction of sewage holes and drainage pipelines on National Highway 1A were needed given the highway’s high platform. Without these facilities, areas along the highway will suffer more severe flooding when the highway is upgraded and expanded in such a massive way, he said.
Specially, Sanh noted that a thorough calculation was needed for expanding the sections of the highway passing through residential areas in the central region or these areas will be prone to dangerous flooding.
Similarly, a lecturer of the HCMC Transport University ascribed the slow water drainage on National Highway 1A to the fact that the route now is blocking rainwater from being drained out. He therefore deems it necessary to focus on seeking solutions against flooding on the highway during the upgrade.
As many sections on the highway are being upgraded while the drainage system there is insufficient, these sections become the dyke containing water inside, causing unpredictable consequences when flooding appears.
Regarding the flood drainage problems on the sections of National Highway 1A running through central provinces, a representative of the planning and investment department under the Ministry of Transport informed that his agency had established a flooding control and fighting project to minimize the disaster along the route in the region.
The project comprises of upgrade, design and construction of works to fight flooding besides offering maintenance services for the highway’s sections regularly suffering flooding from Nghe An to Binh Thuan.
National Highway 1A is divided into 37 sections for expansion running from Hanoi to Can Tho, with 17 projects set for the build-operate-transfer format having a total length of 562 kilometers costing some VND42.5 trillion.
Đăng ký: VietNam News
