Tien Giang province invested more than VND 80 billion in landslide emergency remedy

ABO - Since the beginning of 2018, Tien Giang province has 99 landslide of river banks, canals, with a total length of nearly 24,000m. There were dozens of landslides with a length over 300m ingrained in the mainland over 50m, greatly affecting the property, production and life of people.

Consolidating the dyke systems to protect the orchard. Photo: thtg.vn

To protect the property and people's life, the Tien Giang provincial People's Committee invested VND80.5 billion to deploy emergency works to overcome, strengthen the severely damaged sites such as the dyke in Tan Phong commune, Cai Lay district; Ba Rai river, Phu An river, Cai Coi river, Tra Tan river, Phu Phong river, etc ....

At the same time, the Tien Giang provincial People's Committee directed the localities to review and deploy landslide works as assigned. In addition, localities needed to maintain a model of water hyacinth combined with the planting of wave-shielding trees on large rivers with strong currents and more waterway traffic in the spirit of the project 1002 of the Prime Minister on community-based disaster risk management.

(According to thtg.vn – Translated by HUU TAM)