A commune in Dak Lak proposes to stop sand mining due to serious riverbank erosion

THANH QUỲNH |

Dak Lak - Nam Ka commune proposed that superiors consider not renewing the mineral exploitation license because the Krong No river basin is suffering from serious landslides.

The People's Committee of Nam Ka commune has just proposed that the People's Committee of Dak Lak province and relevant agencies have solutions to overcome the landslides on the Krong No riverbank through the commune.

Accordingly, for Phu Binh Company Limited, which has expired since June 28, 2025, the People's Committee of Nam Ka commune proposed that the Provincial People's Committee and the Department of Agriculture and Environment consider not extending the Mineral Exploitation License in the commune. The reason for the current serious landslides in the Krong No river basin is.

Nam Ka commune requested the Department of Agriculture and Environment to promptly implement a survey, assessment, determination of causes, and proposal of solutions to overcome landslides on the Krong No river bank.

In particular, the Department of Agriculture and Environment provided the People's Committee of Nam Ka commune with a diagram of the location and scale of the sand mining area of Xuan Binh Company Limited so that the locality has a monitoring and inspection facility.

At the same time, it advised the Provincial People's Committee to consult with the Lam Dong Provincial People's Committee to consider stopping sand mining on the left bank of the Krong No river after the Buon Tua Srah hydropower dam to the end of the main road of Nam Ka commune with a length of about 16km.

The commune also requested Dak Lak Provincial Police to regularly send a waterway patrol team on the Krong No river after the Buon Tua Srah hydropower dam to self-management group No. 3, Plao Sieng village, Nam Ka commune.

Nam Ka Commune People's Committee said that from 2013 to present, in Nam Ka and Ea R'bin communes (in the old Lak district), about 20 landslides have been recorded, with an area of about 160 hectares.

Of which, there are 7 landslides with heavy rainfall, some sections are over 500m long. This incident caused hundreds of hectares of people's productive land to be swallowed by the river, completely wiped out.

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