Hanoi urgently implements plans to prevent storm No. 11

Hanoi Department of Construction requested to promptly ensure urban drainage and increase on-duty response, urgently lower water levels on drainage systems and regulating lakes to ensure drainage in the city.

Workers of Hanoi Drainage Company Limited urgently responded to promptly drain water when flooded. (Illustration photo. Nguyen Thang/VNA)

On October 4, to proactively respond, especially to experience in urban drainage and overcoming the consequences of storm No. 10 (Bualoi), the Hanoi Department of Construction requested agencies and units to regularly monitor the situation and developments of natural disasters caused by storm No. 11 (Matmo) affecting the city, and strictly implement the disaster prevention plans of the Hanoi Department of Construction.

The Hanoi Department of Construction requested the Hanoi Drainage One Member Limited Liability Company and urban drainage maintenance units to strengthen control and deploy solutions to ensure drainage in areas that often experience local flooding during heavy rains, in Thang Long Avenue underpasses, Provincial and National Highways, and main streets that can easily cause traffic congestion; at the same time, monitor the weather situation to have timely response plans to ensure urban drainage and increase on-call response, urgently lower the water level on the drainage system and regulating lakes to ensure drainage in the city.

In addition, Hanoi Green Parks and Tree Maintenance Units will review and strengthen the support system of newly planted trees to limit breakage; check and trim the canopy, lower the height to ensure safety during storms; monitor weather developments to respond promptly, organize on-call to clear fallen trees and branches when natural disasters occur to avoid traffic jams;...

Urban Lighting and Equipment One Member Limited Liability Company and units maintaining urban lighting systems: regularly inspect and maintain urban lighting at least 98% as prescribed; promptly repair and fix incidents caused by natural disasters to ensure lighting ratio and electrical safety work as prescribed; prepare machinery, equipment, human resources, logistics..., deploy on-call to fix incidents caused by natural disasters to ensure urban safety and aesthetics.

Along with that, clean water supply units ensure the supply of clean water for daily life to serve the needs of the people. In case of local water loss due to natural disasters, units must have solutions to provide clean water in a timely manner, prepare mobile tanks and tanks and supply plans by tank trucks or other specialized equipment to avoid a shortage of clean water for daily life in the city. The City Technical Infrastructure Management Center strengthens inspection, supervision, and urges technical infrastructure maintenance units to organize on-call, respond to and handle incidents, and overcome consequences (if any) caused by natural disasters in the management area according to decentralization.

The People's Committees of communes and wards direct departments, offices and specialized units to proactively implement approved plans for natural disaster prevention and search and rescue, measures to prevent flooding and tree falling in the management area; urge, direct and supervise urban area investors in the area to maintain and repair the drainage system to ensure completion before October 5 according to the direction of the Department of Construction in Document No. 13250/SXD-CTN dated October 3; closely coordinate with functional forces and agencies and units in the area to implement the 4 on-the-spot motto to ensure timely traffic clearance, with safety warnings for people and vehicles participating in traffic before, during and after storms.

The Hanoi Department of Construction also requested the Department of Agriculture and Environment to direct its affiliated agencies and irrigation management units to proactively deploy pumping to lower water levels on the system of canals, ditches, rivers and lakes currently under decentralized management to support urban drainage in the city.

According to the forecast of the National Center for Hydrometeorology, after continuously increasing in intensity, storm No. 11 has maintained level 11 and maintained its direction of movement and is about 530km from Hoang Sa special zone. However, the forecast still has the possibility of strengthening and increasing in intensity. Specifically, at 7:00 a.m. on October 4, the center of the storm was at about 18.1 degrees North latitude; 116.5 degrees East longitude, about 470km East Northeast of Hoang Sa special zone. The strongest wind near the center of the storm is level 11 (103-117km/h), gusting to level 14. The storm is moving in the West Northwest direction, at a speed of about 25km/h.

According to forecasts from hydrometeorological experts, Hanoi is also in the area affected by heavy rain in storm No. 11, with strong winds of level 4-5.

Heavy rain is forecast to occur early in the morning of Monday, October 6, lasting until noon, and even gradually decreasing in the afternoon and evening of the same day. Rainfall in Hanoi during storm No. 11 is forecast to be from 100-200 mm, although not as heavy as storm No. 10, the amount of rain is likely to cause street flooding. Therefore, agencies, units and people should proactively prevent localized flooding, minimizing the impact of the storm./.

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