The HCM City Anti-Flood Steering Centre has been seeking approval from the people's committee to spend VND1.4 trillion (USD65 million) on a project to buy water pumping vehicles for dealing with flooding.
Flooding in HCM City
Of the sum, VND1.2 trillion will be used to buy 63 60 cubic square-metre per minute vehicles which could help clear flooded streets after heavy rain. Meanwhile, the remainder of the sum will be for the construction of a parking lot for these vehicles and a management office.
The vehicles can help to reduce the water level at flooding spots to 8cm.
Around 30 local streets need this kind of vehicle, mostly in Tan Binh, Binh Thanh and Go Vap districts, the centre claimed. The water will be pumped into canals which flow into the Saigon River.
HCM City is calling for raising VND15.9 trillion (USD709.8 million) from private investors for anti-flood works at a recent working session of the HCM City Steering Centre of the Urban Flood Control Programme.
The city plans to carry out a slew of works to prevent flooding, including drainage networks, tide control drains, underground water storage reservoirs, and other improvements, by 2020
