HCMC anti-flooding reservoirs remain on paper for years

A man wades his motorbike through the water on a flooded To Ngoc Van Street in Thu Duc City, HCMC, June 2, 2022. Photo by VnExpress/Dinh Van

Several anti-flooding reservoirs that HCMC has planned have remained on paper for years for lack of land and technical standards as also pricing issues.

The city began considering anti-flooding reservoirs over a decade ago as the climate change crisis worsened, but it was only in 2015 did it propose a few reservoir projects in areas prone to severe and frequent flooding.

The biggest of these was the Go Dua reservoir in Thu Duc City, spanning over 20 ha and costing over VND1 trillion ($43.1 million). Besides the reservoir itself, the project would also clean up 15 km of rivers and canals, and install a high-capacity pumping system. Once completed, the project was expected to prevent flooding in a 1,300 ha area.

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