On the morning of August 23, 2025, the tropical depression in the eastern sea of the North East Sea has strengthened into a storm - storm No. 5, currently the storm has an intensity of level 8, gusts of level 10 and is moving rapidly (about 25km/h) in the West Northwest direction.
On the morning of August 24, when moving to the northwestern sea area of Hoang Sa, strong storms of level 10-11, gusts of level 14; on the morning of August 25, the storm is likely to be strong at level 11-12, gusts of level 15, in the sea area from Thanh Hoa to Hue and make landfall in the Central region; at the same time, due to the impact of the storm, the area from Thanh Hoa to Hue is likely to experience heavy rain and floods; the risk directly affecting the safety of dykes and irrigation works.
To ensure the safety of the dyke system, irrigation works, and proactively respond to storm No. 5 and post-storm floods, the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment requests the People's Committees of provinces and cities to direct relevant agencies and units to urgently implement the following contents:
Strictly implement the Prime Minister's Official Dispatch No. 141/CD-TTg dated August 22, 2025 on proactively responding to tropical depressions that are likely to strengthen into storms.
Check, review and implement in practice the plan to protect dykes and protect key dyke areas, locations where incidents have occurred but have not been handled or remedied, and unfinished dyke works to ensure safety, especially for dykes facing the sea in areas where the storm has made landfall (including urgently completing reinforcement of locations at risk of insecurity before the storm makes landfall).
Strengthen inspection of sea dykes and river dykes, strictly implement patrolling and guarding to protect dykes during the flood season according to the provisions of Circular No. 01/2009/TT-BNN dated January 6, 2009 of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (now the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment) to promptly detect and handle incidents and situations that may occur right from the first hour.
Prepare human resources, materials, means, and equipment to protect the dykes; at the same time, inspect the actual preparation work and proactively respond to incidents and situations that may arise according to the "4 on-site" motto, ensuring safety for dykes.
Notify owners of vehicles, works, people and deploy plans to ensure safety for people, property, infrastructure works, ... for activities in coastal areas and on riverbanks. Ready to evacuate households in dangerous areas, especially coastal areas, outside riverbanks (areas without protective dykes),...
Urgently identify a specific list of key irrigation works at risk of incidents during heavy rain, pay attention to small lakes managed by the commune level; update implementation plans to respond to heavy rain, ensure the safety of the works in accordance with forecasts of floods and the status of the works.
Urgently lower the water level of irrigation lakes to receive floods according to regulations, ensure absolute safety of works and do not discharge unusual floods that cause unsafety to downstream areas, especially pay attention not to keep high water levels for reservoirs under construction. Strictly implement early warnings to people in downstream areas before reservoirs release floodwaters and when there is a risk of incidents.
Specifically identify areas at risk of flooding and inundation when there is heavy rain; urgently organize thorough water drainage in areas with forecasts of heavy rain and urgently operate irrigation works to drain water for production and people's lives when heavy rain occurs.
