On the evening of September 22, informing reporters, Mr. Ha Xuan Hung - Chairman of the People's Committee of Phu Binh commune said that a serious landslide had just occurred at the foot of Coc Tau irrigation dam in Bo Heo village.
According to the leader of Phu Binh Commune People's Committee, the landslide area is about 20m long and erodes deep into the foot of the dam. The incident did not cause damage to property or crops of local people, but the risk of the dam breaking is very high if not promptly repaired.
"The Commune People's Committee also notified and directed the villages downstream of the dam to harvest rice and crops to avoid damage if the dam breaks.
The initial cause of the incident was determined to be due to heavy and prolonged rain in the area in recent days, causing the dam foot to collapse," said Mr. Hung.
On September 22, when the incident was discovered, the local authorities notified and mobilized more than 100 people including the Army, Police, local people and many excavators to the scene to use soil bags to reinforce the dam body and dig a canal to open a drainage channel. By the afternoon of the same day, the incident had been resolved.
Ho Coc Tau has a capacity of nearly 100,000 m3, is one of three large irrigation works of Phu Binh commune, Chiem Hoa district (Tuyen Quang) with the function of supplying water and irrigation for agricultural production for local people.
