Flooding in HCM City in the comingrainy season is expected to be more severe because most drainageprojects have not been completed, project managers say.
The city has four big ongoing drainage projects, the Nhieu Loc-ThiNghe Basin 's environment clean-up project, the East-West Highwayand Water Environment project, the city's urban enhancement projectand Hang Bang Canal project.
Phan Hoang Dieu, director of the Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe Project'smanagement board, said new culverts have been installed under moststreets, but would not be connected to the city's common drainage systemuntil 2011.
Installation work during the last phase of the East-West Highwayand Water Environment project is expected to be completed next year.
"Even though many culverts have been installed upstream for theseprojects, there is still work to be done with the outlets, so theupstream culverts aren't effective at this time," Dang Ngoc Hoi, sectionhead of the project's management board, told Lao Dong (Labour)newspaper.
The Hang Bang Canal Project, which is expected to deal with floodingin districts 6, 11, Tan Binh, Tan Phu and Binh Tan, is still in itsfirst phase. The city's Steering Centre for Anti-flooding Programme saidthe city's drainage system in more than 100 areas has been blocked byconstruction work of the Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe Project and WaterEnvironment project.
The projects have stopped water flow to complete work. If these areasare not unblocked the centre warned that many areas in the city's innerdistrict 1 would flood during the rainy season./.
The city has four big ongoing drainage projects, the Nhieu Loc-ThiNghe Basin 's environment clean-up project, the East-West Highwayand Water Environment project, the city's urban enhancement projectand Hang Bang Canal project.
Phan Hoang Dieu, director of the Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe Project'smanagement board, said new culverts have been installed under moststreets, but would not be connected to the city's common drainage systemuntil 2011.
Installation work during the last phase of the East-West Highwayand Water Environment project is expected to be completed next year.
"Even though many culverts have been installed upstream for theseprojects, there is still work to be done with the outlets, so theupstream culverts aren't effective at this time," Dang Ngoc Hoi, sectionhead of the project's management board, told Lao Dong (Labour)newspaper.
The Hang Bang Canal Project, which is expected to deal with floodingin districts 6, 11, Tan Binh, Tan Phu and Binh Tan, is still in itsfirst phase. The city's Steering Centre for Anti-flooding Programme saidthe city's drainage system in more than 100 areas has been blocked byconstruction work of the Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe Project and WaterEnvironment project.
The projects have stopped water flow to complete work. If these areasare not unblocked the centre warned that many areas in the city's innerdistrict 1 would flood during the rainy season./.
