Cu Lao Dung is an island district of Soc Trang province located at the end of the Hau River flowing into the East Sea. The district has a 23 km long dike line, an 81 km long left and right dike line and over 1,000 km of embankments.
This place is often directly affected by the East Sea tide with a semi-diurnal tide regime, saltwater flows into the fields along Dinh An and Tran De estuaries combined with the Hau River flow regime, especially when floods combine with high tides, high water levels flow into the fields, causing erosion of embankments, flood control works, and destroying people's crops and fruit trees.
Previously, in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, when the tide rose high, many sections of river dykes, left and right dykes, embankments, traffic routes... in the district overflowed and broke, flooding houses, crops, fruit trees, and aquaculture land.
Learning from previous years' experience, before this year's high tide, the district's functional sector proactively and actively coordinated with localities to increase propaganda and issued warnings about high tides to help people proactively respond.
Mr. Nguyen Van Dac - Head of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Cu Lao Dung district - informed that according to the forecast of the professional agency, this year's high tide season is expected to see the water level rise above alert level 3 on October 18-22. Through inspection and field survey, the district has 11 vulnerable points. Up to now, 10 points have been reinforced and repaired. The locality also added 26 proposed projects to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Soc Trang province for support with a budget of about 5 billion VND.
Mr. Dac added that the agricultural sector has also directed relevant units to continue to strengthen the field survey of vulnerable points, especially river dykes, embankments, and dikes that are not yet safe, low-altitude traffic works, and unclosed dykes to carry out reinforcement, construction, and proactively overcome and respond.
“The district also recommends that localities, the Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, and the Disaster Prevention and Control Task Force in communes and towns organize 24/7 duty, including Saturdays, Sundays, and days during the monthly high tides. This will promptly detect vulnerable points in the area to have the fastest response solutions,” said Mr. Dac.
