On September 11, flood water on rivers in Thai Binh province has been rising at alert level III. By 2:00 p.m. on September 11, 100% of the national dike system in Vu Thu district, including 35.6 km of level 1 dike on the left dike of Hong Ha II and 22.4 km of level 2 dike on the right dike of Tra Ly, were still safe and stable.
However, in the total of 41 km of dikes in the district (including the communes of Hong Ly, Viet Hung, Bach Thuan, Tan Lap, Duy Nhat, Vu Van, Hong Phong...), there were many points where water from the Red River and Tra Ly River overflowed the dike sections (at low dike elevations), causing severe flooding in some residential areas and production areas located inside the dike but outside the national dike.
The dike of Vu Van commune was flooded at many points, the dike of Bach Thuan commune was flooded at 2 points, the dike of Hong Ly commune was flooded at 1 point... In addition to rising flood water, since the morning of September 11, heavy rain has made the flooding situation even worse.
The Steering Committee for Disaster Prevention and Search and Rescue of Vu Thu district has urgently distributed and supported localities with hundreds of thousands of packaging bags to carry out the work of preventing dike overflow.
Communes mobilized all forces, especially people to participate in rescue and dike protection. In the immediate future, the organization will pack soil and sand into bags and arrange them into walls at low-lying points on the dike to prevent water from overflowing from the river.
Localities have closely guarded the dikes 24/7, and when leaks, seepage, and incidents are detected, they are immediately reinforced. The district has mobilized cadres, civil servants, and soldiers of the armed forces to support localities in rescue, dike protection, and evacuating people and property in flooded areas to safety.
Localities have been propagating and urging households living outside the national dike (concentrated in the communes of Bach Thuan, Hong Ly, Vu Van, Hong Phong) to proactively arrange accommodation and move assets to higher houses and higher areas to avoid flooding.
In particular, units and localities regularly disseminate and orient information on dike and flood situations so that people do not panic or worry, thereby coordinating and responding to floods, protecting the safety of people and property when there is a flood.
According to records from the scene, on the morning of September 11, Thai Binh Provincial Police mobilized more than 100 officers and soldiers from the Mobile Company for natural disaster prevention, control and rescue; Battalion Mobile Police Reserve to go to vulnerable areas of Vu Van and Hong Ly communes (Vu Thu district) to help people overcome and respond to limit damage caused by floods.
At these locations, Colonel Vu Manh Ha - Deputy Director of Thai Binh Provincial Police directly directed the forces. Immediately upon arriving at the site, the reinforced officers and soldiers coordinated with local authorities and people to overcome and respond to limit the damage caused by floods...
