Can Tho City People's Committee has just issued an Official Dispatch on approving the investment location for the construction of 2 monitoring stations ST2-CM and ST3-CM under the Mekong Delta Coastal Monitoring System (CMS), according to the proposal of the Department of Agriculture and Environment of the City.
Accordingly, ST2-CM station was built in the area of culvert manager No. 16 of Vinh Chau sea dyke, Vinh Hai commune with coefficients 9,372370oN, 106,180588oE. The station is 12 meters high, equipped with cameras and meteorological monitoring equipment, serving coastal erosion monitoring, the stability and risks of coastal infrastructure.
ST3-CM station was built in the area of culvert manager No. 3 of Vinh Chau sea dike, Lai Hoa commune with coefficients 9,259056oN, 105,859556oE. The station has a similar configuration to ST2-CM, performing the task of erosion monitoring and meteorological monitoring in the area.
Data from the stations will be managed by the Department of Dyke Management and Natural Disaster Prevention and Control and the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Can Tho City. The construction must comply with the design in the licensing documents, without affecting national defense and security.
According to the Can Tho City Irrigation Department, the whole city has a coastline of about 72km. In particular, the sea dike from the border of Ca Mau province to Tra Nien canal is about 56km long (formerly in Vinh Chau town, Soc Trang province), the dike surface is 6 - 7.5m wide. This area has about 15,000 households, of which nearly 6,300 households are located along the dyke and river mouth, vulnerable to storms, high tides and coastal erosion. In recent years, from capital for landslide recovery projects, many sections of underground wave-reducing embankments have been built, contributing to the protection of dykes and coastal residential areas.
However, areas that have not yet invested in breakwater are still strongly affected by high tides and big waves, posing a potential risk of serious landslides. Currently, the section from the border of Ca Mau province to culvert No. 4 has completed about 4.2km of underground embankment, and nearly 2.8km has not been implemented. The area from culvert No. 14 to the mouth of My Thanh River has been built with more than 10km of embankment, but there are still about 2.4km that need further investment.
In early October 2025, the Chairman of the People's Committee of Can Tho City issued a decision to declare an emergency situation regarding coastal erosion in the section from culvert No. 13 to culvert No. 14 in Vinh Hai Commune.
