As Lao Dong newspaper reported from the end of August 2025, due to the impact of storm No. 5 (KAJIKI), the river water level rose and flowed rapidly, causing serious landslides on the right bank of the Red River section passing through Tam Nong commune, Phu Tho province.
According to reports from local authorities at the above time, the sandbar area between Huong Non and the section from Km72+400 to Km73+300 continuously landslides, erodes from 5 - 14m deep and has swept away more than 15ha of crop land. Landslides threaten the property and lives of hundreds of households living outside the dike.
The riverbank landslide section is nearly 1km long, many landslide taluy positions are very high, above are crops, architectural structures of people and rural concrete roads... In particular, the section from Km73+100 to Km73+300, landslides have approached residential areas, directly affecting house number 81, residential area 12.
After the landslide situation occurred, Phu Tho Provincial People's Committee announced an emergency situation for natural disasters, and at the same time decided to invest 7.5 billion VND to build a foot embankment with displaced rock cavities, creating a counterpressure mechanism to prevent landslides.
In the last days of April, returning here after 10 months, Lao Dong Newspaper reporters recorded that an emergency dyke for landslide treatment has been built.
It can be seen that the dyke line is arranged and installed from large stone blocks, surrounding the foundation of the previously landslide taluy. The certainty is easy to see, when in the soil layer above and below the dyke section, people can plant elephant grass to cover green.
At this time, the water level of the Red River is shallow, much lower than the embankment line. With the completion before the 2026 rainy and flood season comes, the risk of riverbank erosion here has been prevented, and people are somewhat reassured.
Mr. Nguyen Van Nhat - a resident of Tam Nong commune - shared: "At the time of the landslide, large chunks of soil drifted along the fast-flowing Red River, everyone was worried that the landslide would reach people's houses. Fortunately, the embankment was quickly built, hoping that this year the riverbank will not erode anymore.
According to a representative of the Phu Tho Sub-Department of Irrigation and Water Resources (under the Department of Agriculture and Environment), the emergency dyke line for handling riverbank erosion in Tam Nong commune is in the process of completion.
In the near future, after completion, this project will be handed over to Tam Nong Commune People's Committee for management and exploitation.
