Investing in the Lo River embankment in the old Vinh Phuc area
The project to handle landslides on the Lo River bank through Song Lo commune and the right bank of Pho Day River through Tien Lu commune - was approved by the People's Committee of Phu Tho province under Decision No. 545/QD-CT dated August 6, 2025.
This project belongs to Group C, with a total investment of 40 billion VND, invested by the Vinh Phuc Project Management Board. The project implementation location is in Song Lo commune and Tien Lu commune, Phu Tho province.
According to the reporter's investigation, on November 7, the Vinh Phuc Project Management Board issued a notice inviting bids for the "Construction of works" package of the project.
The above construction package was widely bid online, priced at more than 35.4 billion VND from the central budget reserve in 2024 allocated to Vinh Phuc province (now Phu Tho province) to overcome the consequences of storm No. 3 and post-storm floods and provincial budget capital.
In the coming time, after the contractor selection results are available, the winning bidder will construct a section of the embankment to prevent landslides on the right bank of Pho Day River through Tien Lu commune, about 507m long, and works on the route.
Along with that, treat the embankment to prevent landslides on the left bank of the Lo River (equivalent to the section from Km23+875 to Km24+880 of the left bank of the Lo River) through Song Lo commune with a length of about 1,027m.
Regarding the main technical solutions, in the construction of the embankment to prevent landslides on the right bank of Pho Day River: The embankment is about 507m long, in which the embankment section from Km0+00 to Km0+429 is designed with 3 parts: embankment top, embankment body and embankment foot; the embankment section from Km0+429 to Km0+507 is designed to handle the embankment foot; the rest are works on the route.
For the project of handling the embankment to prevent landslides on the left bank of the Lo River: The embankment is about 1,027m long, designed to handle the embankment tower, reinforcing the embankment with loose, voluble stone lenses to stabilize and prevent erosion of the riverbank slope; the rest are works on the route.
Regarding progress, the contractor must complete the construction progress for the entire project within a maximum period of 300 days subject to weather conditions (from the effective date of the construction contract).
People of Doan Hung commune hope for the state to build the Lo River embankment
In another development, according to the reporter of Lao Dong Newspaper in early November, the left bank of the Lo River in the Lo River bridge area passing through the residential areas of Dai Hoi, Van Cuong 1, Van Cuong of Doan Hung commune, Phu Tho province (Hop Nhat commune, old Doan Hung district) is experiencing landslides.
Meeting reporters, households said that the landslides on the banks of the Lo River here started from storm No. 3 Yagi in 2024, the river water level rose, sweeping away many areas of soil, crops and architectural objects of the people. By the two recent storms No. 10 and No. 11, the situation became increasingly serious, landslides approached residential areas, threatening the safety of many households living outside the dike.
Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Toan - a resident of the Congress area - shared: "The landslide has washed away about 30 to 40m of soil from the river to the shore, if we count the entire land area, it is probably up to a thousand square meters, old bamboo and many coconut and acacia trees that my family planted, now the large cage is about to collapse".
According to Mr. Vu Van Binh - Secretary of Dai Hoi Residential Area Party Cell, in the face of increasingly serious landslides, the people's wish is to soon receive investment from the state, building a solid embankment from the end of the old embankment section on the upstream of the Lo River Bridge downstream, to the drainage culvert area.
