According to a reporter from Lao Dong Newspaper, on National Highway 7 from Con Cuong Commune to Muong Xen Commune with a length of about 150 km after the flood receded, Joint Stock Company 495 has gathered excavators, leveling excavators, pushing mud, wood waste, and wood out to temporarily clear the route.
The work of connecting the route was focused on and implemented simultaneously at many points causing congestion, carried out all night, in heavy rain.
This work encountered many difficulties when the route had just been temporarily opened, mud encountered heavy rain and flooded again, while hundreds of vehicles lined up to wait to pass. This leads to machines having to level quickly and occasionally shift to the side to let vehicles pass.
Meanwhile, mud nearly a meter thick from people's houses is constantly pushed onto the road by people to clean and sanitize in the house and in the yard, so if machines do not move continuously, it will cause traffic jams because of the mud piled up outside.
On the afternoon of July 25, speaking with a reporter from Lao Dong Newspaper, Mr. Vo Van Bay - Deputy Director of Joint Stock Company 495, the unit responsible for maintaining National Highway 7, said that after the flood caused dozens of locations on this national highway to be cut off, as soon as the water receded in Muong Xen commune (from the morning of July 23), the Company urgently dispatched bulldozers and excavators to clear the mud to clear the route.
"With the spirit of wherever the water recedes or any point is congested, we deploy machinery to clean up immediately. However, due to many congested and overflowed areas, the mud clearance work is still not completed, Mr. Bay shared.
According to Mr. Bay, the preliminary clearance for the temporary route is almost completed and the clearing of all the mud on the route is expected to take several weeks, even months to complete.
