The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment has just sent a document to the People's Committees of the Northern mountainous and midland provinces on proactively responding to heavy rain, floods, inundation, flash floods, and landslides.
According to the forecast from September 9 to the night of September 10, in the mountainous and midland areas of the North, there is a possibility of a widespread heavy rain with common rainfall of 70-150mm, locally over 300mm. Heavy rain is likely to cause flooding in low-lying areas, urban and industrial areas; flash floods on small rivers and streams, landslides on steep slopes.
To proactively respond to heavy rain, floods, flash floods, and landslides, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment recommends that People's Committees of provinces closely monitor forecasts and warnings about heavy rain, risk of floods, flash floods, landslides, and provide timely and complete information to local authorities and people to proactively prevent them.
Deploy shock forces to inspect and review residential areas along rivers, streams, low-lying areas, areas at risk of flooding, flash floods, and landslides to proactively clear the flow in areas with congestion and congestion; organize the relocation and evacuation of people to safe places.
Organize forces to guard, control, support and guide to ensure safe traffic for people and vehicles, especially at culverts, spillways, areas with deep flooding, fast-flowing water, areas where landslides have occurred or are at risk of landslides; resolutely do not allow people and vehicles to pass through if safety is not guaranteed, do not let unfortunate damage to people occur due to carelessness and subjectivity; arrange forces, materials, and means to overcome incidents, ensure smooth traffic on main traffic routes when heavy rain occurs.
Inspect and review vulnerable works, works under construction, especially incidents, small reservoirs that are full of water, arrange standing forces to operate and regulate reservoirs and be ready to handle possible situations; proactively deploy measures to ensure safety for industrial parks, urban areas, residential areas and tunnel and mineral exploitation areas.
Deploy measures to ensure the safety of dykes, reservoirs and downstream areas; arrange standing forces to operate and regulate and be ready to handle possible situations.
Prepare a flood-proof drainage plan to protect production, industrial parks, urban areas, and residential areas.
Prepare forces and means for rescue when required.
Direct local broadcasting and advertising agencies and mass media agencies to increase information about the developments of heavy rain to authorities at all levels and people to proactively prevent it.
